Miller Brown
Fire Plans Review Manager — firefighter turned AHJ-side plan reviewer, and the author of Fire Wall vs Fire Barrier.
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 contribution
Miller authored Fire Wall vs Fire Barrier — 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.
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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