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Chief Josh Waldo has served as fire chief for the Bozeman (Montana) Fire Department since 2015. He previously served as the deputy fire chief of the Oak Ridge (Tennessee) Fire Department and served with the Marlow Volunteer Fire Department from 2001 to 2015. Waldo is a graduate of the National Fire Academy’s Executive Fire Officer Program and holds three professional designations from the Center for Public Safety Excellence (CPSE). He was the recipient of 2017 CPSE Ambassador of the Year award and was selected as the 2013 Tennessee Fire Educator of the Year. Waldo currently serves as the chairman of the IAFC Program Planning Committee, sits on the Board of Directors for the Montana State Fire Chiefs Association, serves on the Western Fire Chiefs Association Board of Directors, and has served as a peer reviewer for the CPSE Commission for Professional Credentialing since 2013.

Dr. Jennifer Taylor is the director and principal investigator for the FIRST Center. She has been trained in the field of injury prevention and control, and uses its principles to address safety issues in first responder and healthcare industries. Specific to first responders, Dr. Taylor applies her surveillance and safety climate expertise to the U.S. fire and rescue service, investigating the relationship between safety culture and injury risk. This has been a natural extension of her patient safety work, as many of the factors that impact medical care are found in the fire service.

Garry Briese is principal at Briese and Associates and executive director of the Colorado State Fire Chiefs. He served as the executive director of the IAFC from 1985 to 2007. He has more than 36 years of experience in all levels of emergency services, including local, state, national and international. He is a leader, author and lecturer within the fire and emergency services community.

Lt. Dan Marcou is an internationally-recognized police trainer who was a highly-decorated police officer with 33 years of full-time law enforcement experience. Marcou’s awards include Police Officer of the Year, SWAT Officer of the Year, Humanitarian of the Year and Domestic Violence Officer of the Year. Upon retiring, Lt. Marcou began writing. Additional awards Lt. Marcou received were 15 departmental citations (his department’s highest award), two Chief’s Superior Achievement Awards and the Distinguished Service Medal for his response to an active shooter. He is a co-author of “Street Survival II, Tactics for Deadly Encounters,” which is now available. His novels, “The Calling, the Making of a Veteran Cop,” “SWAT, Blue Knights in Black Armor,” “Nobody’s Heroes” and Destiny of Heroes,” as well as his latest non-fiction offering, “Law Dogs, Great Cops in American History,” are all available at Amazon. Dan is a member of the Police1 Editorial Advisory Board.

Masimo Inc.’s new carbon monoxide screening courses are designed to make firefighters better able to recognize CO poisoning, and screen and treat subjects at the scene of an emergency. Learn how to get Masimo’s full line of courses, which are offered free of charge through the ED grant until the end of 2008.