Fire Chief Alan Brunacini

Retired Phoenix Fire Chief Alan Brunacini has been a member of the Phoenix Fire Department since 1958. He is a 1960 graduate of the Fire Protection Technology program at Oklahoma State University and earned a degree in political science at Arizona State University in 1970. He graduated from the Urban Executives Program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1973, followed by a Master of Public Administration degree from Arizona State in 1975.

Chief Brunacini is past Chairman of the Board of Directors of the National Fire Protection Association, the first active fire service member to hold this position in NFPA's 93 year history. He is also past Chairman of the Fire Service Occupational Safety and Health Committee of NFPA, which was responsible for the development of Standard 1500. This document, adopted in 1987, is aimed at reducing firefighter deaths and injuries, while promoting health and fitness programs and is having a major impact on the fire service.

He instructs and presents workshops, seminars, and conferences to many fire departments and training institutions throughout the country in various topics that include Fireground Operations, Health and Fitness, Incident Command, Labor/Management Relationships, Command Safety, and Customer Service. Chief Brunacini has authored Essentials of Fire Department Customer Service; Fire Command, which has become a popular text for students of fire fighting, and was supplemented by a movie that demonstrates his fireground commander system in action; and in June of 2002, published Fire Command 2nd Edition along with a Workbook. He authored Timeless Tactical Truths in 2003, and Command Safety in 2004. He is currently working on several other fire service books.