Building Construction: The Firefighter's Battlespace

Vincent Dunn (Ret.), FDNY

In his latest book, 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.

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Safety and Survival on the Fireground

Vincent Dunn (Ret.), FDNY

Chief Dunn―the recipient of FDNY's Lifetime Achievement Award―has updated his classic book on how to identify and survive hazards on the fireground. Dunn attempts to reduce firefighter deaths and injuries year after year by describing the 15 most dangerous tactics and the 13 most recurring fire and explosion environmental dangers, ranked by degree of danger and frequency of occurrence.

This indispensable book will help keep every first responder, firefighter, and fire officer out of harm’s way. It is a must-read and reread for every firefighter who responds to fires and emergencies, every company officer who commands a fire company, and every incident commander or safety officer who is responsible for the safety of firefighters on the fireground.

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Fire: The Battlespace Enemy

Vincent Dunn (Ret.), FDNY

Chief Dunn declares everything you know about fire is outdated and has changed. New scientific research and Firefighter fatality investigations give us a new understanding of fire. NIST, UL, NIOSH and NFPA have exploded the definition of combustion and revealed new insight and clarity about the “red devil”—the Firefighter’s enemy.

There are no chemistry of fire definitions in this book. Chief Dunn delivers cutting-edge fire research and the real-world lowdown on flame, smoke, heat and toxic gases, along with some hard-learned fire experience.

As a Firefighter once said, “You cannot know enough about something that kills you.” Fire kills. This book identifies the dangers and teaches you how to survive.

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Strategy of Firefighting

Vincent Dunn (Ret.), FDNY

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.

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Firefighting: Battlespace Combat

Vincent Dunn (Ret.), FDNY

What is this book, Battlespace Combat, about? It is not about fire spread or construction; this is a how-to book. It is about strategy; it contains action plans; it shows how to fight fires in 20 of the most complex and difficult occupancies encountered during my 40-year career.

Battlespace Combat answers the most important questions about firefighting: Hose-line positioning; ground ladder placement; aerial ladder locating; primary smoke venting; locating trapped victims; how and where flame spreads inside and outside a building; collapse dangers; game-changing events; and last, but not least, how to evaluate successful and unsuccessful firefighting operations.

This book is scheduled to be released in December 2020

Collapse of Burning Buildings

Vincent Dunn (Ret.), FDNY

Chief Vincent Dunn, a 42-year fire service veteran, has updated his best-selling book which examines the dangers of structural failure caused by fire. This is the second edition of the first textbook written to warn firefighters, company officers, and fire chiefs about exactly how structures collapse when destroyed by fire--and examines the subject of burning building collapse in great detail. More importantly, this book, unlike any other publication, instructs firefighters and fire officers in how to survive burning building collapse.

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