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
Timothy R. Merinar
Bio :
Tim Merinar is a safety engineer with the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) Fire Fighter Fatality Investigation and Prevention Program in Morgantown, WV. He has over 19 years of experience with NIOSH where he has worked on a number of fire fighter safety issues including self-contained breathing apparatus certification, compressed-air cylinder failure investigations, and fire fighter line-of-duty death investigations. He is currently the NIOSH organizational liaison to the International Association of Fire Chiefs, Safety, Health and Survival Section Board of Directors.
Timothy R. Merinar
