Includes index.

Putting Rope Rescue in Its Place5 -- Standards 6 -- NFPA 1983 9 -- Chapter 2 Team Concepts 27 -- Rescue Teams 28 -- Management and Accountability 30 -- Hazard Curve Paradox 34 -- Chapter 3 Equipment and System Components 47 -- Hardware 48 -- Software 73 -- Chapter 4 Rigging for Rappeling 105 -- Anchors 108 -- Anchor Attachments 119 -- Knots, Hitches, and Bends 120 -- Single- versus Double-Line Systems 144 -- Chapter 5 Rappeling 157 -- Rope Commands 160 -- Rappeling 160 -- Performing a Self Rescue 175 -- Performing the Pick-Off 176 -- Chapter 6 Personal Emergency Escape Rope Systems (PEERS) 181 -- Hazardous Environments 182 -- Personal Emergency Escape 185 -- Chapter 7 Rigging and Operating L owering Systems and Patient Litters 205 -- Engineering Basic Lower Systems 208 -- Passing Knots 221 -- Patient Packaging 226 -- Chapter 8 Rigging and Operating a Raising System 239 -- Simple Machines and Mechanical Advantage 240 -- Chapter 9 Tensioned Rope Systems: Filling in the Plane 271 -- Tensioned Rope Systems 273 -- Angled Highline 278 -- Horizontal Highline 285 -- Chapter 10 Future 303 -- Future 304.