B-Shifter - Blue Card

The Blue Card/B-Shifter organization is based on the book, "Fire Command," by the late Chief Alan V. Brunacini (Chief of the Phoenix AZ Fire Dept.) and his sons, Nick and John. It is a command training and certification system that trains company and command officers how to standardize local incident operations across their organizations. Chief John Vance has been with the program since 2008.

Chief John Vance - John Vance started as a Fire Explorer in
1982 and has been involved in fire departments and/or municipal service ever since. He has been the Fire Chief of the Minnetonka MN Fire Department since August 2013. Prior to that, he spent nearly 12 years as a chief officer with the Harris Township Fire Department and the Clay Fire Territory in South Bend, IN.
He holds a Bachelor's Degree  in Fire Service Management from Southern Illinois University, a certificate in Executive Management from the University of Notre Dame and is an accredited Chief Officer from the Center for Public Safety Excellence. Chief Vance has been a Blue Card Lead Instructor since its inception in 2008 and leads by the mantra of, "Be Safe, Be Effective and Be Nice."

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Nic Brunacini - Nic joined the Phoenix Fire Department in 1980 as a firefighter. He retired in 2009 as a Shift Commander. From 2010 - 2019, Nic was a Blue Card Instructor and publisher of BShifter Magazine. Since 2019, Nic manages the Alan V. Brunacini Command Training Center and the BShifter.com website.

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Josh Blum - Josh began working in the fire service in 1990 as a volunteer and has worked his way up through the ranks to Deputy Fire Chief. He has spent his entire career working in Hamilton County OH. Through a large majority of his career, Josh has served in several different positions on Ohio Task Force 1. He began working with Blue Card in 2008 and he now serves as Operations Manager for Blue Card - "Striving to do better tomorrow than today!