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Gerald "Jerry" Tracy
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- Residence.
- 340 Babylon Street, Islip Terrace, NY 11752
- Department:
- FDNY
- Title/rank:
- Battalion Chief
- Years of public service:
- 31
- Agency structure:
- Paid fire department
- Topics you provide training for:
- High Rise Operations
Low Rise Ops
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- Areas of expertise:
- High Rise
- Bio:
- Chief Tracy a Battalion Chief with the FDNY, currently assigned to Battalion 49, in the Borough of Queens, with 31 years of service. He is an adjunct instructor for their training academy having developed many training programs for Firefigthters, First Line Supervisors and Chief Officers. He has published articles in WNYF, FDNY’s training publication, and Fire Engineering magazine. He offers programs of training for the fire service. In collaboration with NIST Chief Tracy is involved in the most recent research being conducted on High Rise Firefighting. He is a member of the NFPA Project Technical Panel that is reviewing “Firefighting Tactics under Wind Driven Conditions”.
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I started a High-Rise Group. Would love for you to give your two cents every chance you get.
Hope all is well.
Hope to see you at Indy, and look forward to the results and data when they come out. If what you found was that earth shattering, it will definitely prove to change the fire service for the better! Thanks for all your work on this, and thanks for the info.
I translated your High Rise articles in Fire Engineering for publication in the Spanish fire fighters assiciation magazine, FUEGO, several years back. While we don't have 60 + story moles here, Spain does have Nº's 1 and 15 in the listing of hi rise buildings to population around the world; Benidorm and Valladolid. I have used some of you considerations in training here, all very positive.
I've heard about some of your studies conducted lately and am interested in some info...can you post some of your findings on the 1403 Compliant Training group sometime? Lt. McCormack filled me in on some of the events, but you may be able to shed more light on the subject, especially the LFT highrise training. Thanks in advance.
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