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Chief Arjuna George

4/7/2023

Chief (ret) Arjuna George is a trauma-informed resilience coach
and TRE(R) Provider, specializing in performance coaching for burnout prevention and recover for Fire Chiefs and fire leaders. He retired in 2021 as Fire Chief of Salt Spring Island Fire Rescue after 24 years of service.
     Chief George is a certified professional coach specializing in Fire/Chief Officer Stress Mastery and Resilience. He has helped fire chiefs and officers across the country, be emotionally intelligent leaders.
     He is a family man, entrepreneur, author with a passion for helping others lead healthier and happier lives. He is now the principal owner of Silver Arrow Coaching & Consulting, specializing in coaching fire chief coaching and training.
     Chief George graduated from Royal Roads University in 2022 with a Graduate Certification in Executive Coaching.
     He is a regular contributor for Canadian Firefighter Magazine, Firefighting in Canada and is the author of "Burnt Around the Edges: A Guide to Mastering Stress and Surviving Burnout. his book is available on Amazon and other major retailers.
     And Chief George is proud to present his latest endeavor, the "Burnt Around the Edges" podcast, now available on all major podcast platforms.

Bradley R. Davidson

4/7/2023

Bradley R. Davidson retired in 2021 with 4 decades of service. In the Fire world he currently serves as an advisor for the Canadian Association of Fire Investigators. He is past Regional Director for the Canadian Association of Fire Investigators and past Director for Volunteer Firefighters of Canada.
      As a Consultant he has been a part of a project in Saskatchewan, auditing fire stations and then providing recommendations to the Saskatchewan Government via the WCB for firefighter Cancer prevention. (Pro bono)
      He is still a firefighter health, safety and wellness advocate and promotes this in any fashion he can. He is authoring a new book of his memoirs, sharing the tragedies and triumphs of serving. That also shares the loss of one of his personal firefighter friends due to brain cancer after three surgeries to try and mitigate the disease. The book also includes a chapter on Cancer Prevention.
     Over the course of his career, he was the recipient of scholarships:
First was the FDIC Honeywell DuPont Kevlar Scholarship…. Returned the following year as a FDIC Instructor. The second one FRI/IAFC/FDSOA scholarship and took training as a fire department Health & Safety Officer. And the third was when he was awarded the first ever ISFSI Alan V Brunacini Lifelong Learner Scholarship recipient. Sadly, doctor's orders would not allow me to travel for this…
     The CAFC also invited me to take facilitator training in Ottawa for the First Responder R2MR - Road to Mental Readiness program.
     Find Brad on LinkedIn as "Bradley R. Davidson."

Chief Marc Bashoor

2/6/2023

Chief Marc Bashoor currently serves as the Executive Editor (since 2018) of Fire/Rescue1.com and has over 35 years emergency services experience in Prince George's County Fire Department in MD, including Chief of Department from 2010-2017.
He has also been involved in various academies and conferences as an often-sought instructor and presenter. He has also been a frequent contributor to FIREHOUSE Magazine under the "Chiefs' Concerns" byline. He also served as the Public Safety Director for Highland County FL from 2018-2021.
He is also the winner of numerous awards in the fire service, locally, regionally and nationally.

Dennis Fox

2/6/2023

Since learning of the hidden dangers of ionization alarms in
April 2015, I have been creating public awareness in the effort to warn the public about the dangers of these ion alarms and to have a ban these dangerous and often deadly devices worldwide. I served as the webmaster and public relations for Firecrusade.com (site no longer available) from Nov 2015 to Aug 2016.
Designed and launched www.smokealarmsafety.org Sept 2016 .
Published Ebook titled ION EMPIRE April 2018. The new ebook is now available and proceeds from the sales of ION EMPIRE will help spread the message worldwide and save millions of lives over time! Go to https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/ion-empire-1 to order. "A Story of Fraud,
Corruption and Negligent Homicide in America and worldwide! ION EMPIRE was written to help create public awareness to the billions of people at risk of smoke / fire deaths & injuries due to use of ionization smoke alarms and the other consumer frauds warned about in this ebook that kill or injure and place lives at risk globally every day. Thanks for your Support! For your family, friends and pets safety sake have a fire escape plan and use monitored photoelectric or photo/heat smoke alarms. See the News video and Fire Safety Tips videos at http://www.smokealarmsafety.org

E.J. Henninger

1/2/2023

E.J. Henninger has been designing building systems for more
than 20 years. He is currently a Senior Engineering and Operations Manager for a plumbing and fire protection team, developing designs for commercial and industrial projects.
     He has been a volunteer firefighter for over a decade. He currently holds the rank of Captain, at a rural Fire & Rescue Department, with an active role in the training program.
     E.J. has worked with the International Association of Fire Chiefs and recently presented at FIREHOUSE Expo in Fall 2022. He is also involved in his annual Firefighter Relay Challenge to actively support the fight against cancer.
     He is happily married to his beautiful wife of 25 years and has three wonderful sons.
     Find him on Twitter @BldgFFDev.

Bill Dungey

11/4/2022

Bill Dungey is a volunteer firefighter, speaker and writer from County of Brant, Ontario, Canada. He is passionate about formal resiliency training and maintains that operational readiness is a personal responsibility. Bill is an IAFF certified Peer Fitness Trainer, Peer Supporter and is a trainer for the Resilient Minda Program, developed by the Canadian Association for Mental Health.
He can be reached at william.dungey@brant.ca.

B-Shifter - Blue Card

11/4/2022

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."

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.

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!

Asst. Chief Tom Marchiano

11/4/2022

Assistant Chief Tom Marchiano serves the Chester NY VFD. He is also a 911 dispatcher for Orange County NY. Chief Marchiano has been around the firehouse for many years and is dedicated to providing both his firefighters and himself with multiple opportunities to learn and train as much as possible.
He came up with the concept of, "Six Tips for the New Fire Officer," based on his personal experience, "climbing the fire ladder," from firefighter to line officer and to Assistant Chief.
He can be contacted at tommarchiano@gmail.com.

The EFO - Part II

5/28/2022

This is Part II of our presentation about the EFO (Executive Fire Officer) program, offered at the National Fire Academy in Emmitsburg MD, With our panel, Helen Johnson, Chief Nelson Pyle and Chief Harold "Bud" Phillips.
Our guests went through the long educational process needed to achieve this level. While one is required to have a bachelor’s or master’s degree to enter the program, what you will learn goes far beyond fire tactics and administration.
This program will help you attain the true measure of a fire service leader. If you have that "hunger" inside you that keeps telling you to work harder, learn more and be the best that you can be, than this program might just be for you. Listen to our guests relate their experiences over thirty years ago and the bonds of both leadership and friendship that were an outgrowth of this amazing learning experience.

The EFO - "Was, Is & Will Be" Part I

5/28/2022

Many of us have seen or heard of the acronym, EFO. However, how many of us actually know what it stands for: Executive Fire Officer. Does the designation apply to any level of Chief? Could any firefighter, of ant rank, receive the designation? Just what is it and where did it come from?
My guests for this podcast are Dr. Burton A. Clark, PhD, EFO, Chief Trey Mayo, EFO, Winston-Salem NC Fire Dept. and Chuck Burkell, an advisor and former instructor at the National Fire Academy.
In this episode, which is Part I in a series, they explain the origins of, not only the EFO, but the creation of the National Fire Academy and the various programs that were developed as the federal government and fire service leaders worked together to build an educational foundation for the fire service.