An 18-chapter textbook on overall tower ladder operations that will serve as a street smart guide, covering firefighting operations from big city buildings to small town private dwellings. Readers will start off with apparatus checks and progress through the chapters with: responding guide lines, size-up and set-up on arrival, operations on the pedestal and in the bucket, operations at various types of structures and dwellings, rescues at fires and emergencies, uncommon uses of the tower ladder, peaked roof operations, forcible entry from the bucket, and using portable ladders via the bucket.