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FireStop is the world's first end-to-end, cloud-based system that helps you take your fire data from inspection all the way through to the fire ground.
With an experienced firefighter on our team, we've been able to tailor our design and development to the mind of an incident commander.
FireStop came from the minds of Princeton students, and is an alumnus of the University's entrepreneurial eLab accelerator.
About
We are a group of Princeton University students working on an end-to-end solution for fire damage mitigation through the use of cloud technology, covering fire safety for a wide variety of users.
Charlie Jacobson
Position: CEO, iOS Developer
From: Englewood Cliffs, NJ
Charlie has been working on the beginnings of FireStop since high school, and is behind the main ideas and structures that form FireStop. His hobbies include leaving his team hanging in the middle of a development session to respond to a fire call, maintaining a love/hate relationship with Core Data, and posing for firefighter calendars.
Eddie Zhou
Position: COO, Data Engineer and Scientist
From: Palo Alto, CA
Eddie is a founding partner of FireStop and has been heavily involved in our growth since we began pitching our ideas in late 2012. While keeping a close eye on all day-to-day operations, Eddie is constantly building our cloud servers, as well as managing and analyzing the data that we use to deliver accurate and timely information to our first responders. Eddie can proudly bench press his teammates, recite entire episodes of Suits from memory and reorganize tasks on Asana with his eyes closed.
Darshan Desai
Position: CTO, Front-end engineer
From: Brooklyn, NY
Darshan is our design wizard on our web and mobile ends. He is responsible for the beauty and elegance present in our current iPad application, as well as the website you're navigating right now. His talents include working on a nocturnal schedule, growing a full beard from scratch in few hours, and being deathly afraid of Git merge conflicts.
As a comprehensive solution, FireStop involves everyone at stake, from property owners and insurance companies to fire inspectors and fire scene coordinators.
Our goal is to save 90 seconds of firefighting operations — a number reached after extensive research and testing.
We are in the process of piloting our app with several departments (see below) to optimize and analyze our software. If you'd like to join these select few, please contact us!
Media and Press
FireStop has been lucky enough to be featured in the press anywhere from Fire Engineering's website to Princeton University's homepage. Check us out!
Contact
If you want to talk about testing our product, or find out more software specifics, please reach out to us at charlie@firestopapp.com. Feel free to follow us on Twitter and tweet at us.