Uruguay. On February 17, 2016, in his hometown of Montevideo, Uruguay, engineer Carlos Federico Cvetreznik passed away. A renowned fire protection engineer and a great educator. He was a founding partner of International Fire Safety Consulting (IFSC), and since 2005, manager of IFSC of the Southern Cone in Montevideo.
Expert in the evaluation of human safety and fire protection, and in the design of fire protection systems based on water and clean agents, in various types of commercial, industrial and power generation facilities in Latin America. He graduated as a Mechanical Industrial Engineer from the University of the Republic of Uruguay and one of the first to obtain the Certification as a Fire Protection Expert (CEPI) by the NFPA. He was founder and President of the Uruguayan Association of Fire Protection (AUPCI) and Vice-President of the Ibero-American Chapter of the Society of Fire Protection Engineers (SFPE).
During his professional career as a fire engineer he was very involved with the NFPA, for whom he was the lead instructor of the courses on human safety (NFPA 101) and automatic sprinklers (NFPA 13), giving more than 150 seminars in 18 countries. He participated in dozens of fire protection congresses throughout Latin America, and attended the NFPA in Brazil, being one of the investigators of the Boate Kiss fire and collaborating with the regulatory adoption in that country.
