Charles Jennings, associate professor in the Department of Security, Fire, and Emergency Management and director of the Christian Regenhard Center for Emergency Response Studies at John Jay College, has spent several years working with the Surrey Fire Services, sharing his expertise on socioeconomic factors and fire risk. Subsequently, Surrey was awarded a 2013 Community Health and Safety Program Excellence Award for its Evidence-Based Fire Reduction Strategy and HomeSafe program by the International City/County Management Association (ICMA). Jennings co-authored HomeSafe’s formal evaluation along with Dr. Joseph Clare of Surrey Fire Service and the University of Western Australia, Fire Chief Len Garis of Surrey Fire Service and the University of the Fraser Valley (UFV) and Dr. Darryl Plecas of UFV. The evaluation was published in the March 2012 edition of the Journal of Safety Research.