Floyd Phelps is chairman of the Fire and Life Safety Council
within ASIS International. Now retired,
he often volunteers for emergency management operations. He served as assistant
director of the Southern Methodist University Police Department and later fire
safety coordinator at SMU, assigned to the Office of Risk Management.
First responders, firefighters and police officers responded to the initial alarm. A firefighter once said, “Being a fireman is the greatest job in the world, until there is a