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Chris Cebollero is a nationally recognized Emergency Medical Services leader, best selling author, and advocate. Chris is a member of the Forbes Coaching Council and available for speaking, coaching and mentoring. Currently Chris is the president/CEO for Cebollero & Associates, a medical consulting firm, assisting organizations in meeting the challenges of tomorrow. Cebollero is a member of the EMS1 Editorial Advisory Board. Follow Chris on Twitter @ChiefofEMS and on FaceBook.

Cole Zercoe previously served as Senior Associate Editor of Lexipol’s Police1.com and Corrections1.com. His award-winning features focus on the complexity of policing in the modern world.

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Dan Limmer is a paramedic, educator and police officer who has been involved in public safety for more than 35 years. He has authored more than a dozen EMS textbooks including the Emergency Care textbook and is a frequent international conference speaker. He is the Chief Knowledge Officer at Limmer Education, a company he co-founded to publish high quality study and test prep programs. Limmer is a member of the EMS1 Editorial Advisory Board.

David ‘HazMat Petie’ Peterson is a 29-year veteran firefighter and hazardous materials responder from Janesville, Wis. He is the lead fire and HazMat instructor for the Madison Fire Department and is also the training coordinator for the department’s Level A regional hazardous materials response team. David is a long time HazMat specialist and has been a course designer, instructor and presenter for more than 20 years, training thousands of responders and numerous HazMat teams across the country.

He is currently a Master Instructor for the IAFF’s Hazmat and Weapons of Mass Destruction Training Department and also a member of the Wisconsin FLAME Group, LLC which is a leadership and management training firm.

David has also been a National Fire Academy chemistry instructor and a presenter for Environmental Protection Agency regional conferences, Wisconsin Emergency Management, American Trauma Society, Fire Department Instructors Conference, Firehouse Expo, and annual conferences for the Wisconsin Association of Hazardous Materials Responders, Inc. (WAHMR). For more details on David go to Hazmatpetie.com, and to contact him e-mail David.Peterson@FireRescue1.com.

David J. Soler is the founder and publisher of Firefighter Toolbox and the host of iTunes top-rated firefighter training podcast called Firefighter Toolbox Podcast. With over 20 years in the fire service, he is a nationally certified fire instructor III, fire officer II, rescue technician and hazmat technician with experience in both urban and rural fire services. As a captain, he has taken low-responding, low-motivated fire companies and turned them into highly motivated, top-responding fire companies. He holds a bachelor’s in management and technology from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. His book “Firefighter Preplan” can be ordered here. He can be reached at David.Soler@FireRescue1.com.

GovX is a protected e-commerce Web site where qualified first responders, members of the U.S. Armed Forces and those in related government agencies can shop for premium off-duty apparel, equipment and other products at an exclusive discount.

Its founders were involved in the development and operation of USStandardIssue.com, the Internet’s most popular, single brand, direct-to-military, tactical e-commerce Web site offering Oakley® tactical products. The founding CEO was largely responsible for developing Oakley’s military-direct sales channel, and USStandardIssue.com became the Internet’s leading privately held, member-verified ecommerce Web site for armed services and government employees.

As the largest e-commerce website exclusively for first responders, military and government members, GovX now offers 30,000 exclusive offers from more than 200 leading brands.

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Get an inside view of fire rescue operations with Harold Schapelhouman’s FireRescue1 column, ‘The World of Rescue.’ Schapelhouman has responded to many types of major mass casualty incidents and shares his expertise about management and tactics in his bi-monthly column.

The Inside EMS podcast is a regular expert discussion of hot topics, clinical issues, operational and leadership lessons for EMTs, paramedics and chiefs

Mark van der Feyst has been in the fire service since 1998, currently serving as a firefighter with the Fort Gratiot Fire Department in Michigan. He is an international instructor teaching in Canada, the United States and India. He graduated from Seneca College of Applied and Technologies as a fire protection engineering technologist, and received his bachelor’s degree in fire and life safety studies from the Justice Institute of British Columbia and his master’s degree in safety, security and emergency management from Eastern Kentucky University. van der Feyst is the lead author of the book “Residential Fire Rescue” and “The Tactical Firefighter.” Connect with van der Feyst via email.

Matt Wenning has been the Dublin (Ohio) Fire Department’s strength and conditioning coordinator since 2008. He has worked with U.S. Army Rangers at Ft. Benning and Infantry divisions at Ft. Carson. His education includes a master’s degree in biomechanics from Ball State University, a bachelor’s degree in exercise physiology and more than 10,000 hours of Division 1-A weight room experience. At over 300 pounds of bodyweight, he holds two all-time weightlifting world records. He has learned, coached and taught some of the best in many disciplines. Matt serves as Rescue Method’s fitness consultant. He can be reached at Matthew.Wenning@FireRescue1.com.