Miller Brown
Fire Plans Review Manager — firefighter turned AHJ-side plan reviewer. Author of Fire Wall vs Fire Barrier and collaborator on The Two Firestop Lies.
Who Miller is
Miller Brown is a firefighter turned Fire Plans Review Manager. His career spans frontline fire service and AHJ-side plan review — he reads buildings from both the rig and the desk, which is exactly the perspective that makes his code writing land for practitioners.
Off the clock, a drummer.
Both sides of the job
Fire Service
Frontline experience — what a building does under real fire conditions, not just on paper.
AHJ Plan Review
The desk side of the same job — reading plan sets the way the authority having jurisdiction does.
His contributions
Fire Wall vs Fire Barrier →AUTHOR
The practitioner’s guide to the four rated assemblies in the order they appear on a plan set (fire wall, fire barrier, smoke barrier, smoke partition), with the “what I look for on plans” angle that only comes from working both the rig and the review desk.
The Two Firestop Lies Your Contractor Keeps Telling You →COLLABORATION
Born from a team conversation about improper firestop application on rated walls. Miller raised the recurring field problem and shared the code reasoning, Hilti product references, and video resources that anchor the piece — busting the “no foam in Type I/II” myth and the putty-pad-as-drywall-patch shortcut.
How Miller contributes here
Miller is an editorial contributor and author on LifeSafetyWiki. His articles carry the same standards as the rest of the site — cite the standard, link the section, distinguish the state-adopted edition from the published one, and never invert a constraint.
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