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This is a "how to" book written by a "know how" person for anyone who practices firefighting strategy. Deputy Chief Vincent Dunn is passing on to the next generation of firefighters the lessons ("strategy summaries") he learned from his years of firefighting experience. He describes firefighting strategies for the most common types of fire scenarios and identifies specific firefighting problems presented to an incident commander by occupancy and construction type. More importantly, he explains firefighting solutions and offers firefighting plans, standard procedures, action plans, ideas, guidelines, explanations, key steps, and systems of firefighting procedures. This book is not about tactics. It's about strategy - plans of firefighting, logical ways to solve problems at fires.

MY WAR YEARS - 1964 to 1994 In this memoir, Chief Vincent Dunn, among the most respected FDNY chiefs and the department's most prolific writer, reveals his formative years in the U.S. Navy and with the FDNY assigned to a tough Harlem firehouse. His book includes his brushes with death, rising up through the ranks during the 1960s and 1970s War Years, his best fires and worst firefighting mistakes, how luck and toughness helped him survive, seeing the rough and tumble political life of fire headquarters, and his mentor's fall from grace. Learn about his greatest family loves and greatest family failures, growing old in a young fire service and visiting badly injured firefighters in burn centers. Read his views on safety equipment and meet the unforgettable characters who changed his life. Read his views on women in the fire service and his firsthand stories of an unprecedented firefighter's strike and layoffs. Learn how overcompensation for a failed assignment started his technical writing career for WNYF and Firehouse magazine, and discover his legacy to firefighters.

A busy fire officer handles numerous tasks: administration, budgets, political interaction, medical response, fire prevention, inspections, etc. This book brings the active fire officer back to his job's focus: Fighting fires and responding to emergencies.

* Identify hazards and how to avoid them * Maintain firefighter safety * Hazards or fires do not discriminate, they only destroy Learn from one of the leading authorities on how to identify hazards and avoid them. Dunn discusses the 15 most common hazards faced by firefighters, including cellar fires, collapse, peaked roofs, wildfires, interior operations, ladder operations, forcible entry, and others.

This is a book about the challenges of fighting fires in skyscrapers, mostly office buildings, but also residential. More and more skyscrapers are being built across the world, and many fire departments have not developed the skills to fight fires in these buildings.

Learn how to protect yourself from collapse by understanding why it occurs and the signs that lead to it. Dunn reviews general building design and construction methods, along with the types of collapse that may occur. He also documents hazards that occur with master stream operations and buildings under construction. Contents: General collapse information Constructive terms of building design Building construction: Firefighting problems and structural hazards Masonry wall collapse Collapse dangers of parapet walls Wood floor collapse Lightweight steel roof collapse Lightweight wood truss collapse Ceiling collapse Stairway collapse Fire escape collapse Wood-frame building collapse Collapse hazards of buildings under construction Collapse caused by master stream operation Search and rescue at a building collapse Safety precautions prior to collapse Post-fire analysis Appendix: Post-fire analysis.

"FDNY Deputy Chief (retired) Vincent Dunn says that everything you know about fire is outdated and has changed. New scientific research and firefighter fatality investigations give us a new understanding of fire. In this book Chief Dunn delivers cutting edge fire research and the real world lowdown on flame, smoke, heat, toxic gases, along with some hard earned fire experience. As a firefighter once said, 'You cannot know enough about something that kills you.' This book identifies the dangers and teaches you how to survive." -- Amazon.com.

"Chief Vincent Dunn declares firefighting is a war and buildings the firefighter's battlespace. Dunn says a battlespace is the total fire environment, the inside and outside of a burning building. A battlespace is not just the room and fire, it includes much more. Dunn also tells us about firefighting "game changers" in this book. A "game changer" is notification of an event, construction feature or fire growth that changes an incident commander's thinking or strategy."--