Dr. Jason Wills has been fighting fires for more than thirty years. Now he brings home a doctorate in fire science, one of the rarest in the country.
We all know what a firefighter does, but do you know what a fire marshal does? One Jonesboro fire marshal has one of the rarest fire science degrees in the country. “I take what I do in the fire marshal ’s office very personally and when I lay my head down at night, I want to know I’m doing the best job I can for the people I serve," said Dr.
Jason Wills, Jonesboro fire marshal. Dr. Wills has been fighting fires for 35 years. In his role as fire marshal, he has a few extra responsibilities. Marshals review construction plans, conduct building exams, and inspect the aftermath of fires, just a few of the responsibilities of trying to keep fires from happening. “To be a fire marshal our first responsibility is to protect the citizens of Jonesboro and basically prevent tragedy from happening before it ever starts,” Wills said. He received his undergraduate degree from Oklahoma State University more than 20 years ago. In recent years he decided he wanted to learn more, and the more he learned, the more he wanted to keep going. “It’s going to be hard but I’m going to try to go back to school and I started plugging away at it and I got my masters, and I thought to myself I’ve gotten this far I might as well keep going. So, I just kept plugging until I got my doctorate,” Wills said. A doctorate in fire science is one of the rarest in the country, as far as we could tell only two schools have the program. Jonesboro is lucky enough to have one of the very few graduates here at home. “This is one of the first, and to my knowledge, one of the only degrees in forensic science with emphasis in fire and explosives, there might be others but it’s the only one I know of," Wills said.
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