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About "Noel's Fire Pages"
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"Noel's Fire Pages" was intended primarily as a starting off point for serious research into all aspects of fire science, management and operations. When I started researching on the Internet, there was no World Wide Web with all its amazing search facilities. Using the old command line methods -- FTP, Telnet, Veronica, Archie and the rest -- was a painstaking and time consuming process to find contacts and sources. "Noel's Fire Pages" began as a way of making my sources available to others who may find them of use.
I was born in Perth Western Australia (WA) in 1930 and have lived here all of my life so far except for five years in Papua and New Guinea (1949-1954). I have one wife, one daughter, one son and two grandsons. I joined the Western Australian Fire Brigades as a Fireman in 1955 and retired as an Assistant Chief Officer in 1986. In 1979 I was created a Life Member of the WA Fire Brigade Employees Union which later became The United Fire Fighters Union of Western Australia. In 1976 I attended Overseas Fire Prevention Inspecting Officers' Course No. O/S FP 2/76 at The Fire Service Technical College, Moreton in the Marsh, UK and in 1980 I attended International Senior Command Course 1/80 at The Fire Service Staff College, Dorking, UK. I qualified as a Graduate of The Institution of Fire Engineers (UK) in 1973 and as a Member in 1975. Noel Stephens MIFireE DisclaimerNoel Stephens has no resources to be able to check the validity of any of the material presented in Noel's Fire Pages.The information is provided solely on the basis that readers will be responsible for making their own assessments about its accuracy, currency, and reliability. Each user waives and releases Noel Stephens from any and all claims relating to the usage of material or information made available through Noel's Fire Pages or incorporated into them by reference. [Return to Welcome Page] Last modified on 23rd February 1999 by Noel Stephens (lowpress@bigfoot.com) |
