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Mar 3, 2023, 5 tweets

Excited to be sharing lessons learned from #American #wildfires and #disasters @imperialcollege.

Our friends in #Britain face some of the same #resilience challenges with #fire, #infrastructure, & #publichealth.

CAGB building, room 765
11.00 GMT

@NSF @WaterResearch @EPA

Thanks to Prof. @GuillermoRein @ImperialHazelab and everyone for organizing and participating in the seminar. I truly learned a lot. Some really brilliant and insightful researchers here in working on global building #fire and #wildfire challenges.

I even got to see aluminum composite burn, a material examined after the #GrenfellTowerFire.

I also learned about smoldering.

(@TheRock your name came up … in a good way)

It looks like I presented #wildfire discoveries in the same room that PM @RishiSunak and @BillGates visited 1 week earlier. They too learned about awesome @imperialcollege discoveries.

Next time we’ll cross paths.

For some of my new British #fire researcher colleagues who didn’t get my @TheRock quip, this is a different type of “smoldering”

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