Chief Dunn library
One shelf for Chief Dunn's command, battlespace, collapse, high-rise, fire behavior, and firefighter survival titles.
Chief Dunn frames every building taller than the longest ladder as a skyscraper problem, then focuses on high-rise tactics, hazards, airspace, communications, ventilation, hoseline placement, and command decisions for commercial and residential fires above street-level reach.
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Chief Dunn's memoir collects short vignettes from his life and 42-year FDNY career, blending fires, family, near-death experiences, tactical lessons, retirement, 9/11 reflections, fire photographers, and the legacy that kept him teaching the fire service.
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Chief Dunn explains incident command as control of the whole fire battlespace: the building, the airspace above it, and the tools that now shape decisions, from drones and helicopters to thermal imaging, roof lighting, live video, and tactical planning.
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A practical how-to guide for firefighting strategy, this book lays out action plans for complex occupancies and hard fireground problems: hoseline and ladder placement, smoke venting, victim location, fire spread, collapse danger, game-changing events, and evaluation.
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Chief Dunn updates the firefighter's understanding of fire with current research, fatality lessons, and field experience, focusing on flame, smoke, heat, toxic gases, and the conditions that make fire deadly so firefighters can recognize danger and survive it.
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This book studies the life-or-death decisions firefighters make inside uncontrolled fire environments, from advancing into smoke-filled rooms to recognizing flashover, explosion, collapse, and toxic-gas threats before those conditions overtake crews.
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Chief Dunn defines the building as the firefighter's battlespace, covering stair enclosures, room layouts, rooftop hazards, framing, fire escapes, ceilings, doors, windows, voids, and other construction features that change strategy and firefighter survival.
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Chief Dunn updates his firefighter-safety classic with the most dangerous tactics and recurring fireground hazards, helping responders, company officers, incident commanders, and safety officers identify collapse, search, hoseline, roof, cellar, ventilation, overhaul, and risk-analysis dangers.
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This fireground-safety reference examines how burning structures fail and how firefighters can survive collapse, covering masonry walls, parapets, floors, roofs, trusses, ceilings, stairs, fire escapes, construction sites, master streams, search and rescue, and post-fire analysis.
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Written as a how-to strategy manual, this book turns Chief Dunn's FDNY experience into plans for common fire scenarios by occupancy and construction type, explaining size-up, hose placement, venting, evacuation, master streams, collapse, and post-fire review.
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This command-focused reference brings fire officers back to the core job of directing fires and emergencies, turning administration-heavy leadership into practical command, control, coordination, decision-making, and emergency-response priorities for working chiefs and company officers.
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