Francis Brannigan

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Francis L. (Frank) Brannigan (October 13, 1918 – January 10, 2006) was a writer and teacher in the field of fire protection engineering. He died in his sleep at his home in Calverton, Maryland, United States. In his youth, he was a Lieutenant in the US Navy. While in the Navy, he was assigned to the Panama Canal lock project as head of fire protection. Later, he served as Public Safety Liason Officer for the US Atomic Energy Commission, designed a model Fire Science program for Montgomery College, in Rockville, MD, and was a faculty member at the National Fire Academy and at the University of Maryland's Maryland Fire and Rescue Institute.

Frank Brannigan was the author of Building Construction for the Fire Service which was in its third edition when he died. A fourth edition has been published posthumously. He is primarily recognized for his efforts to increase firefighter safety through education on the dangers of building collapse. He made a strong and conscious effort in all of his writing to use plain language to explain technical concepts, in order to make it more accessible.

Frank Brannigan was also credited as being one of the originators of the concept of a database that tracks firefighter "near misses" and supplemets the statistics kept for firefighters killed in the line of duty. His focus for more than 75 years was the reduction of firefighter injury and death.

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• [1]: Washington Post Obituary

Brannigan, F. L. (2005). Building construction seminar (notes). Women in the Fire Service Conference. Rockville, MD.

Firehouse.com News. (2006, January 17). Fire service construction educator Frank Brannigan passes away. Retrieved April 3, 2007 from http://cms.firehouse.com/content/article/article.jsp?sectionId=46&id=46811.