Montgomery County Department of Permitting Services

Aaron Smith, Senior Permitting Services Specialist, Huntington WV, is a CFPS certificate holder and certified fire inspector and plans examiner in Maryland and Ohio. He is the coordinator of electroni...

ForestWise Environmental Consulting Ltd.

Alan Westhaver recently retired after 34 years of service to Canada's National Parks, mostly as a senior wildland fire manager and wildland fire behavior analyst. His long-standing involvement in the wildland/urban interface (WUI) began in 1990 when he joined the fledgling Partners in Protection Association, Canada's "go-to" source of WUI information....

Exponent

Dr. Ibarreta is a principal member of the NFPA's Technical Committee on Explosion Protection Systems. This committee is responsible for NFPA documents related to explosion protection systems for buildings and equipment, including NFPA 68 Standard on Explosion Protection by Deflagration Venting and NFPA 69 Standard on Explosion Prevention Systems....

NFPA

Allan Fraser is NFPA's Senior Building Code Specialist. He staffs six (6) technical committees and NFPA's Disability Access Review and Advisory Committee". He authored NFPA's "Emergency Evacuation Planning Guide for People with Disabilities" and is the coordinator of "e-ACCESS", NFPA's quarterly newsletter on fire and life safety information for people with disabilities....

After The Fire

Shawn Simons and Alvaro Llanos were two of the most critically burned students in the deadly arson fire set in a freshman dormitory at Seton Hall University in New Jersey in 2000. Through their documentary "After the Fire" and commentary, they share their story of survival and perseverance through the most trying times of their lives....

NFPA

Amanda Kimball is a senior project manager at the Fire Protection Research Foundation, an affiliate of the National Fire Protection Association, where she is responsible for projects relating to suppression, fire alarm, and building life safety....

University of Maryland, Dept. of Fire Protection Engineering

Dr. André Marshall is an Associate Professor in the Department of Fire Protection Engineering, Director of the Fire Testing and Evaluation Center (FireTEC) at University of Maryland, and Principal and co-founder of a technology start-up, Custom Spray Solutions (CSS)....

CAL FIRE - Office of the State Fire Marshal

Andrew Henning is a Deputy State Fire Marshal III (Specialist) with CAL Fire – Office of the State Fire Marshal's Code Development and Analysis Division. Prior to working for the Office of the State Fire Marshal, Andrew worked as a Fire Protection Design Engineer with a leading design-build mechanical contractor....

A S Klein Engineering, PLLC

GHD Inc.

Andrew M Wahl is a registered Fire Protection Engineer – a graduate of the University of Maryland, with more than 25 years' specialized experience in fire protection engineering, including experience as Lead Engineer and manager of fire protection and life safety system design for a wide range of projects....