Vincent Dunn
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• A contributing editor to Firehouse Magazine, he is the author of four books on firefighting
• Two were written prior to his 1999 retirement from New York City Fire Department: 1988 - "Collapse of Burning Buildings: A Guide to Fireground Safety"; 1992 - "Safety and Survival on the Fireground"
• Two were written after retirement: 2000 - "Command and Control of Fires and Emergencies"; 2007 - "Strategy of Firefighting"
• Dunn is a nationally recognized expert on high-rise firefighting, rescue, and building collapse
• The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), an agency within the United States Department of Commerce, selected him to serve as a consultant in its investigation into the collapse of the World Trade Center's Twin Towers and 7 World Trade Center
• nIn the Early 1980's Chief Dunn was an adjunct professor in the mechanical engineering department of Manhattan College in the Bronx, New York; instructing a course entitled "Fire Engineering"
• The course taught engineering students importance of fire loading design on concrete and fire resistant buildings, and how it related to structural integraty and building survivability
• Dunn wrote in his August 2000 newsletter, "The best-kept secret in America's fire service is that firefighters cannot extinguish a fire in a 20- or 30-thousand-square-foot open floor area in a high-rise building
• A fire company advancing a 2½-inch hoseline with a 1¼-inch nozzle discharges only 300 gallons per minute and can extinguish only about 2,500 square feet of fire
• The reach of the streams is only 50 feet