Section Officers :
Chair : Deputy Chief Billy Goldfeder
Vice Chair : Chief Matt Tobia
Secretary : Commissioner Dave Fischler, Ret.
Treasurer : Chief Scott Kerwood

International Director : Chief I. David Daniels

At Large Directors :
Chief Brett Bowman
Chief Robert Dubé
Chief Scott Goodwin
Chief Danny Kistner
Chief Gary Morris, Ret.
Chief Ed Nied
Chief Keith Padgett
Chief John Sullivan
Chief Randall Talifarro

Organizational Liaison :
Fire Police Officer Steve Austin
(CVVFA Emergency Responder Safety Institute)
Deputy Director Ricky Brockman (DoD)
Chief Jeff Cash (NVFC)
Mr. Phil Chovan (FDSOA)
Mr. Rich Duffy (IAFF)
Mr. Tim Merinar (NIOSH)
Chief Christopher Naum, Ret., SFPE (ISFSI)
Chief Gordon Routley, Ret. (NFFF)

Website Committee :
Chief Ricky Brockman (Chair)
Chief Dan Gaumont
Deputy Chief Kevin Brame
Chief Reggie Freeman
Lt. Nicol Juratovac
Safety Officer Peter McBride
Battalion Chief Keith Padgett
Chief Robert Stahl, Jr.

Staff Liaison :
Victoria Lee
Program Manager
International Association of Fire Chiefs
4025 Fair Ridge Drive, #300
Fairfax, VA 22033
Tel: 571-221-2813
Fax: 541-306-3775
Email: vlee@iafc.org


 
 
 Billy Goldfeder
Bio :

Deputy Chief Billy Goldfeder, EFO, a firefighter since 1973 and aChief Fire Officer since 1982, serves as a Deputy Fire Chief of the Loveland-Symmes FD in Ohio. He is Vice Chair of the International Association of Fire Chiefs Safety, Health and Survival Section and is also a member of the Board of Directors of the September 11th Families Association as well as the Board of Directors of the National Fallen Firefighters Foundation. He serves as an Associate/Contributing Editor for FIRE ENGINEERING, FIRE RESCUE, FIREHOUSE and FIREHOUSE.Com. His monthly column "Close Calls" appears in FIREHOUSE Magazine and his bi-weekly radio show "Through The Smoke" is hosted on Firehouse.com.

Chief Goldfeder has served on several NFPA and IAFC Committees, is on the National Firefighter Near-Miss Reporting Task Force (IAFC) and provides technical review for NIOSH's Fire Fighter Fatality Investigation and Prevention Program. An instructor and speaker at many fire conferences including IAFC's F.R.I., he has instructed thousands of firefighters in North America firefighter survival training through his Firefighters Scared Straight program. Chief Goldfeder, along with Captain Gordon Graham hosts and sponsors www.FireFighterCloseCalls.com , a 100% non-commercial, independent and totally free web site dedicated to firefighter survival.

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