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The Three E's: What Your Mother Never Told You about Engineering, Education, and Enforcement
Track(s): Public Education

Scott Adams, Park City Fire Service District;
Earl Diment, Pioneering Technology Corporation;
Lynn Schofield, Provo City Fire Department;
Dan Stubbs, Provo City Center;
Sherri Wilcox, Las Vegas Fire and Rescue

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We have taught it for years. Most educators, fire prevention, and fire suppression personnel have heard the three components of an effective fire prevention program — the three E's: engineering, education, and enforcement. Now for the first time we'll put all of them in the same room for a no-holds-barred discussion on fire prevention and safety. Beginning with our computer modeling and system designing engineers and continuing with our warm and fuzzy educators, this program will for the first time include "those guys" — the code dudes, the wedge police, the AHJs. We'll discuss how each of these components weave together to provide for firefighter safety and the best fire prevention strategies for your communities. Come and join us for a 90-minute cage match — for life.

Assistant Fire Chief Scott W. Adams is the Fire Marshal for the Park City Fire Service District, in Park City, Utah. He served as the President for the International Fire Marshals Association and as Chairman for the 2002 Winter Olympics Fire Marshals Work Group.Chief Adams is a Technical Committee member on the NFPA-1 Fire Prevention Code and NFPA-101 Life Safety Assembly Occupancy Committee.He graduated from the University Of Maryland with a Bachelor of Science degree in Fire Protection Engineering and is certified as a Fire Code Inspector II and Building Code Plans Examiner through the International Code Council.

Earl Diment is the vice chair of the NFPA Education Member Section board. He had a 25-year career with Portland Fire & Rescue, Portland Oregon. Starting as a line firefighter he spent 20 years in the fire marshal's office assigned to public education. During his career with the fire service he was vice president of the board of directors of the Oregon Council Against Arson, president of the Oregon Fire Education Association, and past Chair of the Western Fire Chiefs Association's Education section. Retired from the fire service, Earl holds the position of chief safety officer for Pioneering Technology Corporation and is a co-owner of DWD Educational Consultants. Earl remains active in local and national projects in the areas of fire and life safety and advocate organizations for independent living.

Lynn Schofield is the fire marshal for Provo Fire & Rescue in Provo, Utah. An 18-year veteran of the department, he has been a paramedic, engine and truck company officer, EMS coordinator, and battalion chief. He is a 1996 NFPA Learn Not to Burn® champion, as well as a Risk Watch® champion. As some fire departments lose their educators due to budget cuts, Lynn wants to engage more of the rank and file firefighters in public education. He says they can educate through their actions and words while on fire calls, as well as when they're asked to make public presentations. Lynn enjoys what he calls the 'Aha!' moment, when parents and children begin to adopt fire safety behaviors. Lynn has completed the United States Fire Administration Executive Fire Officer Program and is in his final semester in a Master's of Public Administration program at Brigham Young University.

Dan Stubbs is the Chief Building Official for Provo City. He has been employed with Provo City for the past 13 years. He was in the building industry for 20 years prior to his employment with Provo City.

Sherri Wilcox is a certified Fire Inspector II who also performs various other public education and outreach activities as an employee of Las Vegas Fire and Rescue. She is a Level III Fire and Life Safety Educator in the State of Nevada, and has completed three years of the Executive Fire Officer Program at the National Fire Academy. She is a member of the Fire Prevention Association of Nevada.