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Assistant Chief
Harris County Fire Marshal's Office
Crosby, Texas, United States
Bob Royall is the Assistant Chief, Emergency Operations with the Harris County Fire Marshal’s Office in Harris County, TX, the third-most populous county in the U.S. He previously served as Sr. Captain and Assistant Coordinator for the Houston Fire Department HazMat Team.
Chief Royall is a 46-plus year veteran of the fire service. He has more than 35 years of experience as a senior fire officer and holds an Advanced Firefighter, Fire Officer, Hazardous Materials Technician, and Incident Safety Officer certifications through the Texas Commission on Fire Protection. He is also credentialed as a Type-1 Incident Commander and Type-3 Operations Section Chief and Planning Section Chief with the Texas Forest Service. Bob is a recognized subject matter expert on matters of Homeland Security preparedness, emergency management, hazardous materials response, marine shipboard firefighting, and disaster response.
Chief Royall proudly served as Deputy Area Commander for the Hurricane Katrina Astrodome Shelter Operation and as the Local On-scene Coordinator for the ESF-10 Hazardous Materials and Oil Spill response following Hurricane Ike. He has also responded to and directed an exceptional number of hazardous materials responses, major fires, shipboard fire fighting incidents, and has developed and implemented plans and strategies to enhance emergency response operations within the busiest port and largest petrochemical community in the United States.
Bob is a long-time hazardous materials/WMD instructor, a published author and guest speaker, and serves on or chairs many national, state, and local committees including the NFPA 472/475 Technical Committee, the IAFC HazMat Committee, and the Texas Emergency Management Advisory Committee.