CAPTAIN GORDON GRAHAM, J.D.
CAPTAIN GORDON GRAHAM, J.D. is a 25 year veteran of California Law Enforcement. During his tenure as a police professional, (currently a Captain of the California Highway Patrol) he was awarded his Teaching Credential from California State University, Long Beach. He was later graduated from University of Southern California with a Master's Degree in Safety and Systems Management. Subsequent to this he was graduated from Western State University with a Juris Doctorate. His education as a Risk Manager and experience as a practicing Attorney, coupled with his extensive background in law enforcement, have allowed him to rapidly became recognized as a leading professional speaker with multiple areas of expertise.
Gordon Graham has centered his efforts in providing knowledge to both public and private sector organizations in the area of Organizational and Operational Risk Management, Civil Liability, Professionalism, Ethical Decision Making and related topics. Instead of focusing solely in after incident damage control, he focuses his efforts in the prevention of mistakes through his risk management based training program SROVT (Solid Realistic Ongoing Verifiable Training). He teaches fire chiefs, fire officers and firefighters as well as public and private employees, supervisors, and managers why things generally go wrong, and how to prevent these unfortunate situations from happening. He follows up his prevention efforts with a dynamic presentation on how to recognize the incidents that have a likelihood of ending up in litigation. He concludes his program with a detailed examination on how to prove proper conduct. Additionally, Mr. Graham has developed the CATSINRO approach to the elimination of such incidents prior to occurance a valuable system used by fire departments nationwide. Each of his presentations includes the appropriate written "rules" for the topic covered. These risk management rules allow the informed listener to make immediate, progressive changes in operations to better protect themselves and their organization.
Over the last decade, Mr. Graham has made over 3,000 presentations to various groups including law enforcement, corrections personnel, fraud investigators, fire and rescue service professionals, EMS, other first responders, legal professionals, educators, city, county and district employees, law firms, hospitals and real estate companies along with many other private sector organizations. Since 1990, he consistently received the highest evaluations on P.O.S.T. critiques. In 1995 he received the Governor's Award (sole recipient) for Excellence in Law Enforcement Training from California Governor Pete Wilson. His penetrating wit coupled with his vast knowledge in multiple disciplines provides the enlightened listener with an information packed seminar.
He is available for seminars, conferences, or other programs including incident specific training designed for the specific needs of your organization, whether public or private sector. Contact Mr. Gordon Graham at inquires@GordonGraham.com.
CHIEF BILLY GOLDFEDER, E.F.O.,
Chief Billy Goldfeder has been a firefighter since 1973, serves as Deputy Fire Chief of the Loveland-Symmes FD in S.W. Ohio. A Chief Officer since 1982, he has served as a Fire Chief in Ohio, Virginia and Florida. Chief Goldfeder also served as a Public Protection representative covering southern New York, for I.S.O. as well as a Company Officer with the Manhasset-Lakeville F.D., in Long Island, N.Y. both in the mid-70’s.
A 1993 graduate of the National Fire Academy's Executive Fire Officer Program, he is the former Chair of the International Association of Fire Chiefs VCOS Section. In 2001, Chief Goldfeder was honored with an appointment of Hon. Battalion Chief of F.D.N.Y. He is a member of the Board of Directors of the National Fallen Firefighters Foundation as well as the Board of Directors of the 9/11 Widows, Victims and Families Association. Additionally, he is the recipient of numerous operational and administrative awards and recognitions and received the Loveland-Symmes FD Departmental Award of Excellence in 2003, the Dana Hannon Training Award for 2004, the I.S.F.S.I. Fire Instructor of The Year Award for 2004 and an I.A.F.C. Presidential Award for 2005.Chief Goldfeder recently completed his 6th year as a Commissioner on the Commission of Fire Accreditation International. He serves as an Associate/Contributing Editor for FIRE ENGINEERING, FIREHOUSE, FIRE RESCUE and several State and regional fire magazines as well as WithTheCommand.Com, Firehouse.Com and is a member of the F.E.T.N. (Fire and Emergency Television Network) Advisory Board. He has spoken on, as well as published, numerous articles on subjects such as combination FD's, fire command and tactics, firefighter/fireground safety, apparatus design and deployment and fireground staffing. 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 N.F.P.A. and I.A.F.C. Committees. He is the Vice Chairman of the I.A.F.C. Safety, Health and Survival Section, is a member of the National Firefighter Near-Miss Reporting Task Force (I.A.F.C.) and has been an Instructor at the Fire Department Instructors Conference (F.D.I.C.) for the past 24 years as well as a member of the FDIC Advisory Board for the past 14 years. He has and does provide consulting services for municipal and private corporations with a clear focus on firefighter safety and survival. Chief Goldfeder, along with Captain Gordon Graham, police/fire service risk management expert, attorney and California Highway Patrol Captain, hosts and sponsors the website, www.FireFighterCloseCalls.com, a 100% non-commercial, independent and free site with only 1 focus: Firefighter Safety, Survival and Getting Everyone Home!He can be contacted at BillyG@FirefighterCloseCalls.com
IAFC EMS Section
The IAFC Emergency Medical Services Section is one of the largest sections within IAFC with approximately 1000 members. The Section promotes fire-based EMS by providing a forum for addressing fire service EMS issues, providing guidance and direction to the IAFC board and membership on fire service EMS issues, and representing fire-based EMS issues before the federal government and other EMS interest groups.
Each spring, the EMS Section sponsors the Fire-Rescue Med Conference in Las Vegas , NV. Addressing a wide variety EMS issues, this conference is recognized throughout the industry as the premier gathering of fire service EMS leadership. Distinguished speakers present a wide range of topics designed to meet the diverse needs of attendees.Classes are specifically targeted toward upper management, EMS Officer, Mid-Level Supervisors and more. Fire-Rescue Med challenges its participants with new ideas and approaches and allows them to network with colleagues.
The EMS Section sponsors several EMS related awards. These include the James O. Page Award and Heart Safe Community Award. The James O. Page award, cosponsored by Medtronic Physio-Control, is presented annually to an individual who has played a key role in creating and/or promoting non-clinical innovation and achievements in fire-based EMS management and leadership that has had a positive impact nationally. The award is named in honor of James O. Page who has been a visionary and a national leader in fire service EMS for more than three decades. The Heartsafe Community award, also sponsored by Medtronic Physio-Control, is presented annually to a Fire Service EMS agency(ies) that has played a key role in creating and/or promoting Public Access Defibrillation (PAD) in their community.
EMS Section Board
Chair Gary Ludwig, Deputy Fire Chief
Memphis Fire Department
65 S. Front Street
Memphis, TN 38103
Tel: 901-527-1400
Fax: 901-320-5631
Gary.Ludwig@memphistn.gov
Vice Chair
David S. Becker
12873 Wenlock Drive
St. Louis, MO 63146
Cell: 314-724-0926
dsbeckermo@msn.com
Secretary
Mike Metro, Assistant Chief
Los Angeles County Fire Dept.
1320 N. Eastern Avenue
Los Angeles, CA 90063
Tel: 323-881-2337
mmetro@lacofd.org
Treasurer
J. Robert (Rob) Brown, Jr., CFO, Fire and Rescue Chief
Stafford County Fire & Rescue Department
1300 Courthouse Road, P.O. 339
Stafford, VA 22555-0339
Tel: 540-658-7200
Fax: 540-658-4545
Cell: 540-379-3582
rbrown@co.stafford.va.us
Director-at-Large
Bruce J. Moeller, Fire Chief
Sunrise Fire-Rescue
777 Sawgrass Corporate Parkway
Sunrise, FL 33325
Tel: 954-746-3453
bmoeller@cityofsunrise.org
Immediate Past Chair, International Director, Conference Chair
John Sinclair, Fire Chief & Emergency Manager
Kittitas Valley Fire & Rescue
2020 Vantage Highway
Ellensburg, WA 98926
Tel: 509-856-7714
Fax: 509-933-7240
sinclairj@kvfr.org
Conference Coordinator
Ken Riddle, Deputy Fire Chief (Ret.)
Las Vegas Fire & Rescue
10916 Maryville Avenue
Las Vegas, NV 89144
Tel: 702-254-7749
Cell: 702-287-6546
ken.riddle@cox.net
EMS Section Liaison
Lucian Deaton, Government Relations Manager
IAFC
4025 Fair Ridge Drive, Suite 300
Fairfax, VA 22033
Tel: 703-537-4817
ldeaton@iafc.org
Site Moderators
Bill Simpson
Fire Chief
Good Will Fire Company
New Castle, Delaware
James J Augustine, MD, FACEP
Medical Director
Atlanta Fire Department
Robert Staples
Division Chief
Deltona Fire Department
Scott Parsley, L.P.
Division Chief-EMS
Keller Fire-Rescue
Steve Nezat
Chief of EMS
Shreveport Fire Dept.
Tim Green, EMS Director (Retired)
Kettering Fire Department
Kettering, Ohio
Tony C. Nielsen
Deputy Chief
Spokane County Fire District 8
Mike McAdams
Assistant Chief
Emergency Medical Services
Montgomery County Fire Rescue Services
Edwin M. Dwyer
Deputy Chief-Special Operations
Estero Fire Rescue
Rob Farmer
Chief
Delaware County EMS
Gary Hanna
Chief
Princeton Fire Department
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