Obtituaries
Roi B. Woolley
Roi Bronson Woolley, former editor of Fire Engineering, died on June 2 in Victor, Mont. He would have been 95 years of age on July 4.
A native of Toledo, Ohio, Woolley had lived in San Diego, Calif., since his retirement in 1958.
Woolley joined Fire Engineering on a full-time basis as associate editor in June 1944 after several years as a contributor. He became editor on the retirement of Fred Shepperd in January 1956.
He had been identified with the fire service for many years, including several as assistant chief of the Larchmont, N. Y., Fire Department. He was one of the founders and president of the Westchester Fire Chiefs’ Emergency Plan. This organization has provided the pattern for cooperative fire defense units in states from coast to coast. He also was Westchester County fire coordinator.
During World War II, he was chief of fire coordination of the Federal Civil Defense Administration at Washington, D. C., and was a member of the Federal Fire Council. As a member of the Radio Technical Planning Board of the Federal Communications Commission, he helped secure for the fire service its own radio channels.
He was very interested in home fire safety and was chairman of the home fire alarm committee of the International Association of Fire Chiefs. The committee is now the automatic detection committee and at the time of his death, he was chairman emeritus. He was author of the “Manual for Home Fire Safety,” which was distributed by the International Association of Fire Chiefs.
He was an honorary life member of the 1AFC and had represented that organization on the NFPA detection and signaling committees.
After moving to San Diego, he was a member of the fire science advisory committee to the San Diego Junior Colleges.
