Tiger Schmittendorf

, Male

Angola NY

United States

Profile Information:

Lives in:
3359 Broadway, Cheektowaga NY 14227
Department:
Erie County Department of Emergency Services
Title/rank:
Deputy Fire Coordinator
Years of public service:
27
Agency structure:
Public safety (police-fire)
Top issues in your department:
Insufficient funding to support basic firefighter training; recruitment and retention of volunteer firefighters; apathy in the fire service.
Professional Qualifications:
Nationally Certified Fire Instructor; ICS 400 Trained; Experienced Logistics Chief
Topics you provide training for:
Leadership; PIO; Volunteer Management; ICS; Highway Safety
Areas of expertise:
Absolutely nothing.
Bio:
Tiger Schmittendorf serves as Deputy Fire Coordinator for the County of Erie Department of Emergency Services (Buffalo NY), which manages three training facilities, 50 fire instructors and the training of 97 fire departments and 5,000+ firefighters.

He is a Nationally Certified Fire Instructor and a firefighter with the Evans Center Volunteer Fire Company in the Town of Evans NY since 1980, having served most recently as Chief of Training, Webmaster and Public Information Officer (PIO).

Schmittendorf brings 15 years of experience in engineering, sales and marketing management to marketing the product he loves: the fire service. He specializes in recruitment and retention, marketing, training and leadership consulting for counties and fire departments around the country.

He previously served as co-founder and Managing Editor of The Fire Fighter Newspaper and created a recruitment effort that doubled his own fire department's membership and helped net 500-plus new volunteers countywide.

He is a regularly featured author, presenter, instructor and photographer addressing the business of emergency services delivery.

He suffers from an extremely dry sense of humor and routinely makes an a** of himself, often in public.
Web site:
http://www.tigerschmittendorf.com

Comment Wall:

Load Previous Comments

  • Les Greenwood

    Actually we have been very busy this year with the program. I need to get some handouts made for this. Also been aqccepted into the I95 coalition and will go to my first meeting in two weeks.
    Hope all is well...take care Les

    Jul 1, 2008

  • Katey Scripter

    Wow! Thank you!! I really appreciate you saying that. I love doing it and hope to one day become a full-time fire photographer. If you ever need anything, feel free to let me know! Thank you so much!

    Katey

    Aug 7, 2008

  • Rick Lasky

    Hi Tiger,

    Thanks for your kind words and for mentioning P&O. I think we're all starting to make a little headway and getting things back to the way they should be and were.

    Great job on the article. Well said brother!

    Be safe,

    Rick

    Aug 8, 2008