New Research Center Is Named for 9/11 Firefighter
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By Sewell Chan
September 4, 2008, 5:04 pm
John Jay College of Criminal Justice on Thursday announced the opening of the Christian Regenhard Center for Emergency Response Studies. The center is named for a 28-year-old probationary firefighter who died on 9/11. Mr. Regenhard, the son of a retired police detective and a graduate of the Bronx High School of Science, went to college in San Francisco for a year before enlisting in the Marines and, eventually, joining the Fire Department. He was assigned to Ladder Company 131 in Red Hook, Brooklyn. His mother, Sally, has become a well-known advocate for improved emergency communications and construction codes.
The center, which was created with federal financing, will serve as a research institution and information clearinghouse for the study of emergency responses to disasters like 9/11 and Hurricane Katrina, as well as future threats like a major earthquake on the West Coast.
Charles Jennings, former deputy commissioner of public safety for the city of White Plains and now a professor of protection management at John Jay, was named the center’s director.