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OUR CAUSE

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A MOVEMENT FOR BETTER FIRE PROTECTION




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You already care about doing great work. What if you could do it faster, better, with quality resources and a passionate community?

This website is the anthem for the curious, the passionate, the rookie, the up-and-comer, the inspector, ​​the cubicle champion, and the self-driven trailblazer.

​MeyerFire.com was created to ​help you excel as an expert and leader in fire protection.

This is our anthem.
​Join the movement for better fire protection.
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SHARED KNOWLEDGE + QUALITY RESOURCES
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⇒ BETTER FIRE PROTECTION


MeyerFire.com is a mission-based online platform built to help fire protection professionals shine.
Our goal is to help save lives. We know the best way to do that is to support you, the fire protection professional, do great work.
We see our purpose as supporting your efforts to effectively achieve great work. We aim to do so by sharing industry best practices, by creating helpful tools and resources, and by bringing together industry experts to share their expertise.

OUR CAUSE IS SIMPLE: SAVE LIVES, GLOBALLY.

We are working towards this in two ways:

(1) EMPOWER PROFESSIONALS FOR A MORE FIRE-SAFE WORLD.
We work to help fire protection professionals shine. When you are able to do great work, you are the advocate and the expert that makes real change happen. We want to support you in what you do best, with articles, tools, education and community that helps you be effective and grow all the time. Empowering the professionals in this industry is our best shot at making a positive impact in improving fire safety around the world. 

(2) END THE WATER CRISIS IN OUR LIFETIME.
Water is not only good for suppressing fires. It's the source of life we need to live. Seriously. Nearly 1 in 10 people worldwide are without access to clean water. Access to water means education, income, and health - especially for women and children. Fixing this major challenge is possible, and possible within our lifetime. We support charity:water in helping bring access to clean water worldwide.
These projects have only been made possible because of the community and your support on this platform, so thank you!
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REHABILITATED WELL IN MOZAMBIQUE
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NEW WELL IN MALAWI #1
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NEW WELL IN UGANDA
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TAP STAND IN TANZANIA #1
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NEW WELL IN MALAWI #2
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WHO IS JOE?

Joe Meyer, apparently sometimes called "JoeMeyerFire", is a licensed Fire Protection Engineer and is the creator of MeyerFire.com; a website dedicated to helping professionals in the fire protection industry. He works now as a full-time content developer for meyerfire.com out of St. Louis, Missouri.

Joe is passionate about the fire protection industry and about improving parts of the industry in a positive way. He develops a mix of written content, tools, resources, and other projects aimed around high-impact opportunities to better fire protection practices overall.

His latest impact-project has centered around MeyerFire University; an online, on-demand training platform for those with 0-3 years experience in the fire suppression, fire alarm, or life safety space.

Joe graduated from the University of Kansas in Architectural Engineering and later the University of Maryland in Fire Protection Engineering. Before setting out on his own in 2019 to pursue his own practice, Joe worked in fire alarm, suppression, and clean agent design for a large MEP firm in Kansas City and then led a fire protection group for a small MEP & Structural Engineering firm in St. Louis, Missouri.
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What's up with all the sketches? Joe became very interested in architectural sketching during drafting & studio courses in college and started an online art shop selling minimalist architectural artwork. The online shop ran from 2012 to 2020 (when meyerfire.com began to take off) and included hundreds of  different sketches, illustrations & painting. He now leads his illustration team to produce the visual content that MeyerFire may be best known for today.

​Joe wrote the MeyerFire PE Prep Guide (beginning in 2016), compiled the NFSA's Expert of the Day Handbooks (2004-2018 and 2019-2020 Editions), and was a contributing author to NFSA's Layout, Detail and Calculations of Fire Sprinkler Systems textbook (3rd Edition, 2021). Joe has served as a Chapter President in SFPE, has served on the Engineering Advisory Board for the University of Kansas CEAE program, and has taught as a lecturer at the university level. 

Joe created and writes regularly at www.meyerfire.com, and continues to create tools and resources for fire protection professionals today.

THE EXTENDED MEYERFIRE TEAM

What began out of a basement in 2016 has grown into a major online hub, and we couldn't be more thankful. The extended MeyerFire team is made of contributors who are passionate about making a positive impact in the world. We wouldn't be here without the dedication from these major contributors within our extended team:
MEYERFIRE 
JOE MEYER, PE | OWNER / FIRE PROTECTION ENGINEER
ERIK RADER | IMPACT DIRECTOR
ALYSSA MEYER | EDUCATIONAL SUPPORT

MEYERFIRE UNIVERSITY ILLUSTRATION
​DIANA TSIGLER |
ARCHITECT, ILLUSTRATOR
VERIKA ZOLINA | ILLUSTRATOR
KSENIA PLATONOVA | ILLUSTRATOR
JULIA MARSHALKINA | ILLUSTRATOR
ALEXANDRA TABOLINA |
 ILLUSTRATOR
KRISTINA POTANINA | ILLUSTRATOR
JOE MEYER, PE | ART REVIEW, ILLUSTRATOR

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MEYERFIRE UNIVERSITY VIDEO PRODUCTION
MINO STOGANOSKI | VIDEO EDITOR, QUALITY REVIEW
PAVLO MAZNEVSKI | VIDEO EDITOR
JEN YUVA | VIDEO QUALITY REVIEW, WRITER

MEYERFIRE UNIVERSITY GRAPHICS & AUDIO
PABLO CASTILLO | GRAPHICS MODELING
JOHN JAMES CORPUZ | WEB PRODUCTION
JEFF KELM | VOICE TALENT


MEYERFIRE UNIVERSITY TECHNICAL EDITING
JESSE CECIL | TECHNICAL EDITOR
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JOE MEYER, PE | TECHNICAL EDITOR
MEYERFIRE UNIVERSITY INSTRUCTION
STEVEN BARRETT, PE | INSTRUCTOR
BEN BROOKS, PE | INSTRUCTOR
CHRIS CAMPBELL, PE | INSTRUCTOR
ED HENDERSON, PE | INSTRUCTOR
AARON JOHNSON | INSTRUCTOR
CHRIS LOGAN, CFPS, RSE | INSTRUCTOR
JOE MEYER, PE | INSTRUCTOR
MAX NEWTON, PE | INSTRUCTOR
FRANCK ORSET | INSTRUCTOR
DAVID STACY, PE | INSTRUCTOR
AL YAKEL, SET | INSTRUCTOR
ERIC ZDANKIEWICZ, PE | INSTRUCTOR
DERKE DUVAL, PE | INSTRUCTOR
CHRISTINE PONGRATZ, PE | INSTRUCTOR

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MeyerFire.com is a startup community built to help fire protection professionals shine.
Our goal is to improve fire protection practices worldwide. We promote the industry by creating helpful tools and resources, and by bringing together industry professionals to share their expertise.

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The views, opinions, and information found on this site represent solely the author and do not represent the opinions of any other party, nor does the presented material assume responsibility for its use. Fire protection and life safety systems constitute a critical component for public health and safety and you should consult with a licensed professional for proper design and code adherence.

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