Fire safety writer
Bill “The Fire Guy”
Three decades in the fire protection trade — now writing down what the codebooks don’t spell out.
About Bill
Bill “The Fire Guy” is the pen name of a working fire-protection executive in the New York metro area. He has spent more than three decades in the building-services and fire protection trades — and since he prefers to keep his day job and his writing separate, around here he is just Bill.
Bill started on the facilities side in the early 1990s and worked his way up through regional management into senior executive roles at building-services firms and fire sprinkler and fire protection companies — running service operations, project teams, and entire businesses, from field crews to the corner office. Along the way he has overseen sprinkler installations and retrofits, alarm programs, inspection portfolios, and the unglamorous maintenance work that decides whether a system performs on its worst day.
That experience is what he writes about here: inspections that actually pass, maintenance programs that actually hold up, and the difference between a tag on the wall and a system that works. No product pitches and no scare tactics — just what thirty years of walking buildings teaches you.
