About
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.
Blog posts on Views & Visions
| Post | Date | Key Topics |
|---|---|---|
| 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
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.
