Paul GRIMWOOD
Has served over 35 years as a firefighter in London and New York and is an international Compartment Fire Training Specialist. He has three books published on firefighting tactics and has presented over 200 papers through international fire journals and at conference in several countries. Paul also serves as an editorial reviewer for the Fire Safety Journal, the official journal for the International Association of Fire Safety Science.

He has served as a member of national UK ODPM and CLG task groups for compartment firefighting and high-rise firefighting and further advised similar task groups in several countries on firefighting tactics. He has trained firefighters of several nations and structured response tactics to suit individual needs. He is a qualified fire investigator and established expert witness in 3D tactical firefighting, flow-rates and flashover fires and has been involved in both the investigative and legal process associated with several notable multiple life loss fires in the USA and the UK since 1987.

He is the founder and principal of Firetactics.com, a website which has provided in excess of 14,000 pages of structural firefighting SOGs FREE to over 2.5 million visitors from more than 70 countries since July 1999 (source Webstat.com). Published in six languages, the website has also raised thousands of dollars for burns charities in UK, USA and Australia, whilst introducing the concepts of 3D Firefighting to firefighters globally across two decades.

He introduced the concept of unified fire-ground strategies he termed 'Tactical Ventilation' and '3D Firefighting' in an effort to advance the safety of firefighters at fires. These risk-based strategic models have since been adopted by hundreds of fire authorities around the world.

He has also contributed international research papers on high-rise firefighting tactics; firefighting flow-rates; Arson Task Forces; International Disaster Relief and Abnormal Rapid Fire Behavior. These works have been referenced many times elsewhere and served to influence global response to fire & rescue strategy.

'not averse to controversy, Paul Grimwood has over the last decade (1982-92) helped to pioneer a number of innovative firefighting techniques....'

FIRE PROTECTION ASSOCIATION 1992

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