Matt Stuckey is a 36-year retiree of the Houston Fire Department. As a frontline downtown district chief, he became an ardent student of high-rise systems and of the details and outcomes of actual high-rise fires. Both before and after retirement, he worked 20 years for a leading high-rise life safety consulting firm, studying the systems in hundreds of buildings across North America. Stuckey has published two books, the latest of which is titled Firefighters and Highrises, 2nd Edition.