Is anyone else feeling the Halloween sugar hang-over today? While you recover from the weekend festivities, we hope you enjoy the latest episode of Assuming Command ™. This month Bob talked to Richard Birt, a Las Vegas Fire and Rescue retiree. Richard has continued to be engaged in emergency response through his education organization SAFE which stands for Solar and Fire Education. SAFE provided free training to firefighters on how to address solar panel and battery systems during a structure fire. Richard has also been highly involved in disaster response, traveling to Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria to set up microgrids that allowed emergency responders to work more safely and effectively. Richard has big plans on creating power grid resiliency through small solar installations that could feed power back into the grid during times of crisis. We have no doubt Richard will be successful in impacting the way solar is used for resiliency both during disaster situations and everyday operations. If you would like to reach out to Richard for SAFE training or if you have any other questions for him, you can reach him at solarandfireeducation@gmail.com.
