Billy Goldfeder

Fired Up!

Chief Billy Goldfeder, EFO, a firefighter since 1973, serves as deputy fire chief of the Loveland-Symmes (Ohio) Fire Department. He also serves as Lexipol’s senior fire advisor and is a member of the Fire Chief/FireRescue1 Editorial Advisory Board. Goldfeder is a member of the Board of Directors for several organizations: the IAFC, the September 11th Families Association and the National Fallen Firefighters Foundation (NFFF). He also provides expert review assistance to the CDC NIOSH Fire Fighter Fatality Investigation and Prevention Program. Goldfeder is the recipient of numerous operational and administrative awards, appointments and recognitions. He has served on several NFPA and IAFC committees, has authored numerous articles and books, and presented several sessions at industry events. Chief Goldfeder co-hosts the website www.FireFighterCloseCalls.com.

LATET ARTICLES

Fire-based EMS

Never, ever post patient photos anywhere

It may seem obvious that it is unprofessional, possibly criminal, to post images from the scene on social media, yet it happens

April 01, 2013 05:49 AM

Billy Goldfeder

Safety

How to keep firefighters safer in the new year

The economy and other disasters hit firefighters hard last year, yet there is strong evidence of a shift in culture toward safety

January 02, 2013 04:31 AM

Billy Goldfeder

Fire Prevention

On dead babies, emotions and sprinklers

Babies who die in fires never had a chance to make a fire-sprinkler decision

November 12, 2012 05:17 AM

Billy Goldfeder

Safety

The death of the Near-Miss Reporting System

The National Fire Fighter Near-Miss Reporting System has had its grant funding revoked, leaving us to ask why and what now

September 26, 2012 06:36 AM

Billy Goldfeder

Fire News

Fire department resources: We’re heading into a perfect storm

We have less staff, less resources, less understanding of the types of buildings we are responding, plus a lack of sprinkler systems

December 28, 2011 06:10 AM

Billy Goldfeder

Fire Department Management

Holiday insensitivity or seasonal stupidity?

To say this is local government city hall-dweller insanity at its best is a mild comment

December 14, 2011 04:29 AM

Billy Goldfeder

Fire Department Management

Fire Department Survival Inventory

We really need to be going out of our way daily for the public, the elected officials and the media to make sure they fully understand the good we are doing

June 20, 2011 07:37 AM

Billy Goldfeder

Fire Department Management

Upset about Alameda? It’s just the tip of the iceberg

We keep seeing budgets cut, but we keep reading how it ‘won’t affect services’ or ‘response times will be the same’

June 06, 2011 10:14 AM

Billy Goldfeder

Safety

Have it your way: The Burger King age

For years customer service meant delivering what the customer wants, but these days it may not be what the customer needs – whether they realize it or not

December 28, 2010 07:11 AM

Billy Goldfeder

Fire Department Management

A sign of the times, the times that are here to stay?

At what point do we alter being an interior FD when we are being forced to be pretty much an exterior FD?

December 01, 2010 05:23 AM

Billy Goldfeder