Mr. David J. Truax

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  Published on: 5/29/2008    Last Visited: 5/30/2008  

  DOVER - Three years ago, Dover Fire Marshal David Truax barely knew how to turn on a computer.
  
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  Today, he's a key player in working the bugs out of digital mapping technology intended to keep close tabs on a NASCAR crowd expected to top 200,000 at Sunday's Sprint Cup Series race.
  
  The laptop-based system, which allows him to keep track of the campgrounds that pop up on race weekends and the problems that arise there, is a major improvement over his old system of keeping tabs on the visitors: "When we started doing this, we had pushpins on a map on a styrofoam board," said Truax, whose normal day-to-day job is protecting a mere 35,000 or so Dover residents from fire hazards.
  
  Frustrated by the low-tech alternative, Truax called on Gary Nowak, the city's new geographic information system chief, in 2006 to see if GIS technology could be employed to make his job easier during the two annual NASCAR races.
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  Because all responders use the same reference points and terminology, there's little chance that Truax or six other laptop-equipped city employees will drive around in a time-consuming search for race fans who need help or, as NASCAR partisans will, get a little too unruly.
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  The county provides a dispatcher, but the responders in the field are city code enforcers, Truax and his employees and, on a part-time basis, the state fire marshal's office.

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  DOVER -- Three years ago, Dover Fire Marshal David Truax barely knew how to turn on a computer.
  
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  Today, he's a key player in working the bugs out of digital mapping technology intended to keep close tabs on a NASCAR crowd expected to top 200,000 at Sunday's Sprint Cup Series race.
  
  The laptop-based system, which allows him to keep track of the campgrounds that pop up on race weekends and the problems that arise there, is a major improvement over his old system of keeping tabs on the visitors: "When we started doing this, we had pushpins on a map on a styrofoam board," said Truax, whose normal day-to-day job is protecting a mere 35,000 or so Dover residents from fire hazards.
  
  Frustrated by the low-tech alternative, Truax called on Gary Nowak, the city's new geographic information system chief, in 2006 to see if GIS technology could be employed to make his job easier during the two annual NASCAR races.

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  Secretary - David Truaxph. (760) 747-3485

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  Published on: 11/15/2006    Last Visited: 11/15/2006  

  DOVER FIRE MARSHAL Dave Truax and GIS coordinator Mark Nowak review a newly printed map showing the location of buildings within the city having fire suppression systems.
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  Most recently, city Fire Marshal Dave Truax has tracked what types of fire suppression systems are in buildings throughout Dover.
  
  "With the GIS capability, we type in a given address and find out if it's got a sprinkler system, a hood system or if it's even got a suppression system at all," Truax said.

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  DOVER -- Three years ago, Dover Fire Marshal David Truax barely knew how to turn on a computer.Today, he's a key player in working the bugs out of digital mapping technology intended to keep close tabs on a NASCAR crowd expected to top 200,000 at Sunday's Sprint Cup Series race.More »

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  Published on: 2/14/2008    Last Visited: 2/14/2008  

  Fire Marshal David Truax appealed to council's concern for their constituents' safety by saying that when a fire breaks out in a home with sprinklers, there is less property damage and the chance of survival is higher.
  
  The hurdle was in getting people to realize that installing sprinklers wouldn't stop people from buying Dover's townhomes.He reminded council that when the smoking ban was placed on restaurants and bars, people were worried it would kill businesses, but it didn't.This ordinance would be similar, Truax said; it just depended on a change of attitude.
  
  "Getting over that hump is the difficult part," he said."We cannot rely on response-based fire protection alone when we have technology out there that does work."
  
  Fire Chief David Carey agreed with Truax that targeting units with three or more townhouses in a row made sense because when fires break out in joined housing the fire spreads to other homes.
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  Truax added that people need to get over the idea that house fires could not happen to them.
  
  A number of council members admitted safety versus affordability was a tough issue, especially in the current economic climate.
  
  Councilman Timothy Slavin said he would like to see more people out of renting and into homeownership, so he would vote against the ordinance.

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  Published on: 4/25/2007    Last Visited: 5/26/2007  

  Dover Fire Marshal David Truax was looking for a change.He knew there was a better way to deploy his resources to protect and serve the throngs of NASCAR fans.So Truax contacted Mark Nowak, Dover's GIS coordinator, to see if they could devise a plan.

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  Published on: 10/7/2008    Last Visited: 5/30/2008  

  DOVER - Three years ago, Dover Fire Marshal David Truax barely knew how to turn on a computer.Today, he's a key player in mapping technology intended to keep tabs on a NASCAR crowd Sunday's Sprint Cup Series race.

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  Published on: 1/25/2006    Last Visited: 1/26/2006  

  The fire, which was reported at 4:50 p.m. Jan. 16, occurred in a three-unit block of homes on Charring Cross Drive, said Dover Fire Marshal Dave Truax.
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  Truax said an initial examination indicated the fire was accidental, although he had not yet determined its actual cause.The building,s sprinkler system worked as it was supposed to, Truax said, but it appeared as if the blaze spread through the attic, which, in keeping with the codes in force when the apartments were built a decade ago, did not have a fire suppression system.
  
  With building occupants and insurance adjusters still combing through the site, Truax said, it would be several days before he could provide a monetary damage estimate.

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  Published on: 6/30/2005    Last Visited: 6/30/2005  

  A kitchen fire at La Tolteca on Route 13 June 24 caused wooden trusses in the ceiling to fail and the roof to collapse, according to Dover Fire Marshall David Truax.
  
  ,It doesn,t take much fire damage for them to fail,, he said.
  
  The fire started at approximately 3:30 p.m. from cooking oil on the stove, Truax said.Although the investigation is ongoing, the fire looks to be accidental.
  
  The fire spread from the kitchen to other parts of the restaurant, he said.
  
  Six Dover fire trucks responded to the scene.
  
  The restaurant suffered severe heat and smoke damage, Truax said.
  
  ,The kitchen area is completely destroyed,, he said.

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