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- Residence.
- 445 West 59th St, NY, NY 10019
- Department:
- Protection Management
- Title/rank:
- Associate Professor of Fire Science
- Years of public service:
- 3
- Agency structure:
- other
- Professional Qualifications:
- PHD, PE
- Topics you provide training for:
- Fire Dynamics, Fire Department Hydraulics, Detection and Suppression
- Areas of expertise:
- 1) Firefighter Intervention Modeling (PHD Dissertation)
2) Infrastructure Protection (Chief Fire/Life Safety Engineer for major subway project through Conceptual Design and Preliminary Engineering - 5 Years)
- Bio:
- Robert Till is an Associate Professor at John Jay College involved in teaching and research in fire science. He received his PhD. in Fire Protection Engineering from WPI in 2001. His PhD. thesis addressed the evaluation of buildings for fire department intervention. He is a member of the SFPE Fire Department Operations Task Group.
Other research interests include the protection of transport infrastructure projects including road and rail tunnels, bridges and airports. He is special expert member of the NFPA committee responsible for life safety in subways and other passenger rail systems – the NFPA 130 technical committee.
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This group will focus on aggressive interior firefighting. We will address tactics that increase your chance of not getting jammed up and cover what actions to undertake if you do.We will cover some big issues as well as small tactical tips
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