Greg Penney

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Greg Penney

Greg Penney is a District Officer with the Department of Fire and Emergency Services, WA. He has 16 years of operational and incident management experience as both a firefighter and paramedic. Greg has completed a MEng (Building Fire Safety & Risk) and MScParaMedRes (Risk) and he is now completing his PhD on strategic wildfire suppression as an associate student.

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Blog posts on Views & Visions

Post	Date	Key Topics
Wildfire engineering – a new perspective for fire service operations and rural urban interface design	07 Oct 2020	engineering, fire, resilience
I’ve spent 14 years on bushfire front lines and seen courage in the face of death	27 Mar 2020	fire, firefighter, volunteering

Student project

Through the flames - quantitative analysis of strategic and tactical wildfire suppression

This research serves to examine the critical components of bushfire suppression in order to improve firefighter safety and operational effectiveness during siege bushfire response. The research adopts a fire engineering approach, incorporating both empirical and physics based computer simulation to analyse suppression efforts with a significant focus on firefighter tenability.