Pressure Proof

Thomas Dunne is a retired deputy chief and a thirty-three-year veteran of the New York City Fire Department with extensive experience working in mid-Manhattan and the Bronx. He has been the incident commander at hundreds of fires and emergencies in residential, commercial, and high-rise buildings. Chief Dunne lectures on commanding emergency incidents, human behavior in disaster, and stress management at conferences and colleges across the country. He has written numerous articles for Fire Engineering magazine and serves as an adjunct instructor for Kean University. He is the author of Notes from the Fireground: Memoir of a New York Firefighter and a novel titled A Moment in Time. Visit his website at www.chieftomdunne.com

• Foreword Acknowledgments 1. Seeing the Elephant 2. Who, Me? 3. The Loneliness of Command 4. Yeah, I See 5. Command Presence 6. Can You Hear Me Now? 7. That Golden Moment 8. Feeling Lucky? 9. It’s a Long Way to Headquarters 10. How’d I Do? 11. The Ticking Clock 12. Wadda Ya Got? 13. They’re Only Human 14. Stress, What Stress? 15. The Beast Within 16. Decisions, Decisions 17. Burnout 18. Think Like an Incident Commander Notes Index