Douglas K. Cline

, Male

United States

Profile Information:

Lives in:

Aynor, South Carolina

Department:

Horry County Fire Rescue

Title/rank:

Assistant Chief

Years of public service:

36

Agency structure:

Combination fire department

Top issues in your department:

Leadership, Staffing, cultural change

Professional Qualifications:

Bachelors of Social Work, NREMT-P, Certified Fire Officer

Topics you provide training for:

Leadership, Company Officer Development, Instructor Development, Rapid Intervention Teams, Safety and Survival, Live Fire Training

Areas of expertise:

Officer Development, RIT/Safety Survival, Instruction Development

Bio:

Douglas Cline, Chief of the Training and Professional Development Division with Horry County Fire Recue, a Metro Department with over 840 Fire and Emergency Medical Personnel, serving a diverse population and 1250 square miles of jurisdiction. He is a Executive Editor for The Fire Officer and Executive Director for the Command Institute in Washington D.C.

A 35-year fire and emergency services veteran as well as a well-known international speaker and instructor presenting dynamic power packed /high intensity programs on leadership, instructor development, officer development, fire ground tactics, rapid intervention team training and firefighter safety and survival. Cline is a highly published author of articles, blogs and textbooks for both Fire and EMS. As a Chief Officer, Cline is a distinguished authority of officer development and has traveled internationally delivering distinguished programs on leadership and officer development. He also has a diverse line of training videos on Leadership, Rapid Intervention Team Training, Vehicle Fires, Hose Line Management, Emergency Vehicle Operations and Fire Ground Safety and Survival.
Cline, a retired Fire Chief, is a Level III Fire Instructor, National Fire Academy Instructor and an EMS Instructor. Chief Cline is the Immediate President of the International Society of Fire Service Instructors (ISFSI), past President of the Southeastern Association of Fire Chiefs (SEAFC), a member of the South Carolina and North Carolina Society of Fire and Rescue Instructors. Cline serves as a National Fallen Firefighters Foundation (NFFF) Advocate for Everyone Goes Home, serves on the FEMA Assistance to Firefighters Act Grant criteria development committee, Congressional Fire Service Institute (CFSI) National Advisory Committee, FDIC Advisory Board and a peer reviewer for the Fire Act Grants.

In 1999, Cline was honored by the International Society of Fire Service Instructors (ISFSI) by being awarded the prestigious George D. Post International Instructor of the Year. He holds a Bachelors Degree in Social Services with a Minor in Education from Concord University. He is an Associate Professor at Horry Georgetown Community College teaching in the Fire Science Associates program.

Chief Cline has been actively involved with the fire dynamics research conducted by ISFSI and National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). As a Strategy and Tactics theorist he has worked to help translated the research data into cutting edge operational theories, methodologies instructional programs and fire ground tactical operations focused on the Modern Fire Environment.

Chief Cline is the executive producer of Fire Engineering’s “Fire and Training Blog Talk Radio show and Fire Weekly’s “The Chief’s Trumpet”, the official Blog Talk Radio show for the Southeast Association of Fire Chiefs. Cline is the co-producer of the Fire and EMS Blogs “TheFireOfficer.com"

Web site:

http://www.thefireofficer.com

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