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Lives in:: White Salmon, Washington

Department:: Klickitat County Fire District #3

Title/rank:: Assistant Fire Chief/Training/Health and Safety Officer

Years of public service:: 32

Agency structure:: Combination fire department

Top issues in your department:: Our fire district supplies fire training for two other fire departments. Combined we have 50 volunteers and three paid staff. We have no training physicality or training props. We train once a week combining both class room and outside drills. We go to the local school to have hands on and multiple company drills. All three departments have been around since the 50's but until two years ago there was not structured training. Our fire district hired me and given the task of developing a training program and training the three fire departments. We started out with FFI and are moving on to driver/pump operator and then to officer training. During all of structural fire training we also have a need to train in wild land fires fighting. Our district alone cover approx. 50 square and out of that only about 20% is urban. There is a lot to do.

Professional Qualifications:: Currently I'm the Assistant Fire Chief, training officer, Health and Safety officer, assisting the Chief with operations, and an EMT
I'm a retired Fire Lieutenant/Paramedic with 30 years experience in fire suppression, EMS and an FTO. I spent a short time in fire perversion performing fire inspections.

Topics you provide training for:: Structure Fire Suppression
EMS
Wild Land fire training
Auto/farm Extrication

Areas of expertise:: Structural Fire Suppression
EMS
Auto Extrication

Bio:: Married, have 3 children, two step children, one is now a Fire Captain/Paramedic with Kaiser Fire Department in Oregon. Like to fish, work with wood and help the community by volunteering on my days off.

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