Steve Colson is a career firefighter with the Fire Department of the City of New York (FDNY). He has over twenty years of experience in the fire service, serving as both a career and volunteer firefighter. He is the creator and administrator of the FDNY Near Miss reporting system, and co-coordinator of the FDNY Forensic Mapping System. A graduate of Providence College, he holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Fire Science, and is currently enrolled in a Masters program in Protection Management at John Jay College in New York City. Mr. Colson is a nationally certified fire service instructor II. Mr. Colson has worked on numerous line of duty firefighter fatality and serious injury investigations, as well as apparatus collisions for the FDNY’s Safety Command. He has served as the program coordinator and participated in the development and instruction of the current curriculum for training field safety investigators for FDNY.
