Each month, new podcasts hosted by Ed Comeau are posted on Radio@firehouse.com. They feature interviews with national fire safety leaders and innovators on some of the most current subjects facing fire safety officials across the country.
You can listen to these shows online or download them to your computer or MP3 player. Check back for regular updates on these shows!
The following is a list of the topics and experts that have been interviewed.
Subject |
Speaker |
Alcohol use and fires |
Bob Davis, USA TODAY |
Alcohol use on campuses |
Dr. Beth DeRicco, Higher Education Center for Alcohol and Other Drug Abuse and Violence Prevention |
| Alcohol Task Force at the University of Mississippi |
Dr. Doug Sullivan Gonzales
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Campus fire safety legislation in Congress |
Representative Tubbs Jones |
Campus Fire Safety Training DVD |
Shawn Longerich, People’s Burn Foundation
Dan Jones, Chapel Hill Fire Department
Kindari O’Connor, MediaSauce
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Christmas Tree Fire Safety |
John Reich, South Carolina Fire Marshal |
Dorm fires research |
Dan Madrzykowski, fire protection engineer, NIST |
E85 Ethanol dispensing systems |
John Drengenberg, Underwriters Laboratories |
ePARADE |
Fire Marshal Mike Love, Montgomery Country Fire Department |
Fire Corps and college students |
Dayna Hilton, Public Fire and Life Safety Educator, Johnson County Rural Fire District #1 |
Fire investigations by NIST |
Dan Madrzykowski, fire protection engineer, NIST |
Fire Protection Engineering on Campus |
Chris Jelenewicz, Society of Fire Protection Engineers |
Fire Protection in the United Arab Emirates |
Stephen King, C3 Consultants |
Fire retardant chemicals |
Dr. Tom Chapin, Underwriters Laboratories |
Fire safe cigarettes |
Jim Shannon, NFPA president |
Fire Sprinkler Incentive Act |
Representative James Langevin |
Fire-safe cigarettes |
Bill Barnard, Maryland State Fire Marshal |
Fireworks |
Jerry Wingard |
Human behavior in fire |
Dr. Guylene Proulx, National Research Council Canada |
ICC residential sprinkler code Proposal |
Jeff Shapiro, International Code Consultants |
Incident management |
Chief Cliff Jones, Tempe Fire Department |
International Study of Fire Prevention Practices |
Phil Schaenman, president, Tri Data Corporation |
Interoperability of communications |
Alan Caldwell, International Association of Fire Chiefs |
Kentucky Governor’s Task Force on Campus Fire Safety |
Gail Minger |
Mass notification |
Bruce Fraser, SimplexGrinnell |
| Millennial Generation of Students – What Makes Them Tick? |
Dr. Carol Hagans, Butler University |
NASFM association priorities |
John Dean, Maine state fire marshal and president of NASFM |
National Strategic Fire Initiative |
Jim Crawford, Vancouver FD and Ozzie Mirkhah, Las Vegas FD |
People’s Burn Foundation of Indiana |
Shawn Longerich, Director |
Residential Fire Fatalities in the News |
Kathy Gerstner, program specialist, UFSA |
Seton Hall University Fire |
Jennifer Nelson |
| Sprinkler Ordinance in Columbia, Missouri |
Fire Marshal Steven Sapp, Columbia Fire Department |
Spring cleaning – clean your ductwork |
Ray Lambert, North Dakota State Fire Marshal |
Wesleyan University, Case Study |
Barbara Spalding, Associate Director, Campus Safety |
