Mike Burroughs

Forensic Fire Investigator

[Mike Burroughs @MikeBurroughsFI]

@PyroClaire You should see the spin pass!!

[Mike Burroughs @MikeBurroughsFI]

@DannyHopkin @OfrConsultants I have just completed the questionnaire and would encourage my friends, colleagues and followers to do the same>

[Mike Burroughs @MikeBurroughsFI]

@rorymiles Excellent, Thanks Rory ... also thanks to whoever invented slow motion!

[Mike Burroughs @MikeBurroughsFI]

@PyroClaire Every fire scientist should have one 🧐🔬(no I don't have shares!) I'll spare you the selfie but always amazed by my thermal reflection in a window. Great for finding overheating electrical joints, aim at the plug next time you boil the kettle ... also works on ice cubes in gin😉

[Mike Burroughs @MikeBurroughsFI]

@GuillermoRein For the UK, I would suggest Mark Hardingham who is newly appointed chair of National Fire Chiefs Council and Chief Fire Officer of Suffolk Fire and Rescue Service.
NFCC also has a wildfire group.

... but I suspect you have global ambition as well!

[Mike Burroughs @MikeBurroughsFI]

@ClaireMBelcher @GSI_Exeter @UofE_Research @SarahBaker189 Good to see you all back. Keep up the good work and keep well!

[Mike Burroughs @MikeBurroughsFI]

@WFSUK1 @LondonFire Congratulations to both of you. I know Lynsey well so also know the accolade is richly deserved. I have yet to meet Dr Anne but I am sure the same applies

[Julie Smith @ExBatsforEver]

@fbunational @veebeevet @NightSkyLantern

[Fire Brigades Union @fbunational]

Setting something on fire & sending it into the sky towards an unknown destination, during the grassfire season, whilst the NHS & fire & rescue services respond to a global pandemic, is a strange way of showing your support.

So strange in fact, that we would say: DO NOT DO THAT

[Mike Burroughs @MikeBurroughsFI]

@LondonFire "An Ounce of Prevention is Worth a Pound of Cure" Benjamin Franklin 1736. As true now as it was then

[London Fire Brigade @LondonFire]

Fires in #London are at their lowest ever level since records began in 1966. The reduction in fires over the last ten years have been largely down to our integrated & targeted approach to fire safety https://t.co/8zpAsQl2Cn

[IFE South Western Branch @ifesw]

Great branch committee meeting this morning with old and new members present @CFRSFireSafety @DSFireUpdates @robcude looking forward to our AGM on Wednesday 16th April 2020. All welcome

[Mike Burroughs @MikeBurroughsFI]

Excellent workshop. Well attended but only one serving UK Fire Officer and one former UK Fire Officer (me!) and not many from other countries present. Researchers and firefighters really need to talk to each other more!
This is a big issue in many countries and growing in others

[Dr. Ragni Fjellgaard Mikalsen @Ragniragniragni]

Workshop ‘Large Outdoor Fires & the Built Environment’ by @IAFSS at the @Interflamconf 2019 today. Learning about urban fires,
wildland-urban interface (WUI) fires, wildland fires, and informal settlement fires from leaders in the community🔥👍

[Mike Burroughs @MikeBurroughsFI]

Well said, and many congratulations to Katie and her team.

[Tamy Emma Pepin @TamyEmmaPepin]

Congratulations to Katie Bouman to whom we owe the first photograph of a black hole ever. Not seeing her name circulate nearly enough in the press.

Amazing work. And here’s to more women in science (getting their credit and being remembered in history) 💥🔥☄️

[Mike Burroughs @MikeBurroughsFI]

Well, it made me giggle!

[Mike Burroughs @MikeBurroughsFI]

Yes you are ... both right and biased!! (and I mean that in a good way)
Fire Engineering is DEFINITELY where it's at

[Lynsey Seal @lynsey_seal]

I’m possibly biased but fire engineering is where it’s at 👍

[Mike Burroughs @MikeBurroughsFI]

If we do not properly (shouty PROPERLY!) understand how fires start, spread, how people and buildings behave, and how the environment is affected then we have no chance of selecting effective actions.

That means quality investigation and research, and a way of sharing findings

[Prof Guillermo Rein. 🔥 @GuillermoRein]

“Fundamental fire science is an area crying out for better research” i stand by this words every single time someone dies in a fire

[Mike Burroughs @MikeBurroughsFI]

A firefighter death affects firefighters all over the world. Thoughts with their families and friends. Respect and thanks to our firefighting colleagues everywhere

[Lynsey Seal @lynsey_seal]

Thoughts are with our colleagues in Paris

[Mike Burroughs @MikeBurroughsFI]

Thanks Claire. People, please follow her link to Wiki's Swiss cheese.
Very common in accident investigation, I particularly like the diagram they use because it looks less like cheese than holes drilled in metal ... which means the faults are due to design and/or implementation

[Dr Claire M Benson 🔥 @PyroClaire]

This is a huge number of, possibly sub-standard, fire doors. A system is only as good as it's parts https://t.co/Fxka415eSs

[Mike Burroughs @MikeBurroughsFI]

I occasionally worry that I am being distracted by Twitter ... then something like this comes along. Fabulous addition to my library.
Thank You Lynsey and Ben
Thank You Barbara and Arup
But above all Thank You Margaret Law #Legend #inspiration #FireSafety #womeninscience

[Lynsey Seal @lynsey_seal]

As I’ve probably mentioned before Margaret Law’s collection of papers is the only fire text which has made it into my home library (rest kept at work). Wonder what insights she might’ve had about the fire industry today?