Christopher Naum, SFPE

United States

Profile Information:

Lives in:

Syracuse, New York

Department:

Command Institute, Washington, DC | NY

Title/rank:

Chief of Training

Years of public service:

44 years

Agency structure:

other

Professional Qualifications:

Forty-four years of national and international experience in fire protection, incident command management, training and field operations within the Fire Service. Tactical Theorist | Former Architect, Fire Protection Engineer, College Fire Science Department Coordinator, Company and Command Officer in both municipal and industrial fire service settings.
Adjunct Instructor, National Fire Academy, MD
Former Vice President, International Society of Fire Service Instructors (ISFSI)
Board of Directors; IAFC, Safety, Health & Survival Section 2006-2011
Past NFFF/EHG Firefighter Safety Advocate- New York State
Contributing Editor to wide variety of fire service publications and eMedia including Fire Engineering, Fire Engingeering.com, FirefighterNation.com FireRescue Magazine. Executive Producer: Buildingsonfire.com | FiregroundLeadership.com | TheFireOfficer.com
Professional member grade; SFPE

Topics you provide training for:

Building Construction, Building Construction Systems for Command & Company Officers, Fireground Leadership, Tactical Operations, Building Construction for Today's Fire Service, Tactical Discipline and Tactical Patience, Lessons from the Fireground, Adaptive Fireground Management, Operational Excellence on Today's Evolving Fireground, Firefighting Operations in Large Area Mansions and Residence.

Areas of expertise:

Architecture, Building Construction; Design, Building Systems, Fire Behavior and Structural Collapse, Fire Protection Engineering, Command Risk Management, Strategic Decision-making and Tactical Command Safety, Firefighter Occupational Safety and Health, Collapse Rescue, Command and Operation-Urban Search and Rescue.

Bio:

A 44-year fire service veteran and a highly regarded national instructor, author, lecturer and fire officer, he is a distinguished authority on building construction issues affecting the fire and emergency services and has traveled throughout the United States and internationally delivering training programs on building construction, command management and operational safety. He has been lecturing and instructing nationally for over thirty-three years.
His previously service included Fire Command, Fire Protection & Safety at a US nuclear power plant, over twenty years in field operations & suppression as a commanding company officer in New York and Training & Fire Academy and College academic curricula administration and management.
He is the Chief of Training for the Command Institute and served as a Vice President with the International Society of Fire Service Instructors and a past member of the Board of Directors, IAFC Safety, Health & Survival Section. He was a Contributing Editor with Firehouse Magazine for over 27 years and Firehouse.com where he authored the Buildings on Fire column and Buildingsonfire series, he served as an adjunct Instructor with the National Fire Academy and is a National Fallen Firefighter Foundation, Everyone Goes Home Firefighter Safety Advocate. A former architect and fire protection engineer he was the 1987 ISFSI George D. Post National Fire Instructor of the Year and is a Technical Consultant to the NIOSH Firefighter Fatality Investigation and Prevention Program and Firefighter LODD Reports.
He is a well-respected Tactical Theorist, researching and developing emerging and cutting edge strategic and tactical operational methodologies, concepts and practices based on fire research to improved fireground operations and firefighter safety and is active in numerous national & international fire service agenda programs, committees and initiatives that is helping to define the fire and emergency services in training and operations in the years ahead.
Naum is Executive Producer of the Buildingsonfire Series and Productions that include the highly acclaimed website, Buildingsonfire.com dedicated to building construction, command risk management and firefighter safety and is also the executive producer of two highly regarded eMedia web sites on PennWell’s FireEMSBlogs.com & FirefighterNation.com that include FiregroundLeadership.com and TheFireOfficer.com and manages numerous interactive eMedia programs on Facebook, Twitter and FirefighterNation.com. He is revamping his monthly radio program Taking it to the Streets on Blogtalkradio.com for and early 2017 re-launch. He has developed, authored and is publishing a groundbreaking fireground management model-Adaptive Fireground Management (AFM) and an integrated training curricula model –Five Star Command integrating building construction, risk management and firefighter safety with the latest insights on fire behavior, fire dynamics and tactical modeling and has published new insights on a Tactical Risk Management Model for firefighting operations and is preparing to launch a new methodology on Reading the Building Profiling called the Buildings on Fire FACTS process series.

Web site:

http://FiregroundLeadership.com

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