About Jay Shaw

Jay Shaw is a Winnipeg firefighter who writes on occasion to fulfill some sort of education complex he developed over the last few years.

Jay has been involved with emergency services for most of his working life, the last 10 years in his dream job as a firefighter. He holds a paramedic/ firefighter diploma from the Southern Alberta Institute of Technology / Alberta Fire Training School, as well as a diploma from The Canadian Society of Orthopedic Technologists.

He developed an interest in writing when he was forced to write academic papers during certificate courses at the Justice Institute of British Columbia. Writing for national fire service trade magazines and sitting on Firefighting in Canada’s advisory board.

Currently Jay is driving his amazingly supportive wife and three children crazy finishing his Masters degree at Royal Roads University in Disaster and Emergency Management, where his research focus is on risk perception and disaster preparedness. He desperately wants to invent some life altering disaster-aid product that will help people survive disasters, but may have to enroll in a PhD program to do it.