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David Mellen is a 23-year student of the fire service and has been a Paramedic for 17 years. David currently serves as a career Firefighter/Paramedic in a suburb of the Kansas City metro area as well as Captain with the Reno Township Fire Department in Leavenworth County. He previously served as a lab instructor for the Johnson County Community College Fire Science Program and has sat on several review committees for fire training publications. David is an instructor at FDIC, Firehouse Expo, and several other state and local fire schools as well as the owner of Valor Fire Training.

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Chris Kessinger has been a student of the craft for 17 years, currently holding the role of Lieutenant with the City of Riverside Fire Department. Chris serves as the lead instructor and owner of Citizens First Fire Training in addition to the role of training officer/instructor for numerous schools, training facilities and departments. Chris has a deep passion for this job and making sure that the blue-collar traditions of our foundation stay alive and well. As an active member for the Central Ohio FOOLS chapter, Chris is able to continually spread those traditions and keep our service headed in the right direction. His passion, that one thing on the job that drives his soul will always be with truck company operations. Be aggressive in the search, aggressive in throwing ladders, aggressive in ventilation but most of all be aggressive in LOVING the job! Those core values are what Chris lives by. Chris is a nobody from nowhere that just loves the job and spreading the passion everywhere he goes. Our citizens are our absolute number 1 priority, anything other than that is simply unacceptable.

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Tai Rondeau brings over 16 years of knowledge and experience ranging from his time as a volunteer firefighter to two career departments. Tai currently serves as a firefighter/ paramedic for the City of Milwaukee, Engine 34/Med13. He also teaches for Take the Door Training LLC, affiliated with the Brew City F.O.O.L.S., and has taught/assisted at several fire conferences and fire schools across the nation. Lastly, he is associated with Leatherhead Tools helping with tool research and development. He shares a great passion for the fire service and still loves learning and bettering his skill set. 

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Chief Brandon Skaggs of the Clarksville Fire Department in Indiana. He started in the fire service when I was 18 years old as a volunteer firefighter for Clarksville Fire and was given an opportunity of a lifetime to become a career firefighter in 2003.  Brandon has been chief for the last 6 years. He really enjoys being part of public education events,  Command training and multi agency drills.  

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Devin Craig is a 20 plus year veteran of the fire service. He has been with a department north of Houston Texas since 2003 and an officer since 2007. He spent 7 years as a lead fire instructor at the largest fire academy in the nation He is a proud member of the Georgia Smoke Diver Association. and is now co-owner of Train or Die Fire Service Training. 

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Eric has been a firefighter since 1990. He has served in every rank from firefighter up to division chief. He is currently the Chief of Training at the Indianapolis Fire Department. He holds multiple fire and EMS certifications and has a Bachelor’s of Science from Indiana University and a degree in Fire Science from Vincennes University. Eric teaches at FDIC, Firehouse Expo, Firehouse World and other regional fire conferences. He is a contributor to Fire Engineering magazine. He travels across the U.S. teaching classes and has taught 1000's of firefighters over his career.

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Kaleb Mauzy joined the fire service in 2000, starting his career with the U.S. Forest Service at the Sierra Vista Ranger District, working as a wildland firefighter. After 5 years with the Forest Service, in late 2005 he transitioned into structure firefighting with the Fry Fire District located in Sierra Vista, AZ. Upon getting hired with the Fry Fire District, he built out their wildland program and served as the wildland team coordinator until he was promoted to the position of Battalion Chief. As Battalion Chief, he is responsible for the district’s special operations program (which includes TRT, Wildland, Hazmat, and SWAT medics), the part time employee program, as well as employee training. Battalion Chief Mauzy holds many certifications including Technical Rescue Technician, NWCG Strike Team Leader, and Hazmat Technician. He is also a member of the Cochise County Incident Management Support Team and sits on the regional policy committee. As the fire districts training chief, Chief Mauzy schedules and coordinates all fire districts trainings as well participating in a leadership role in the regional training committee which includes the command training center, firefighter training, and live fire trainings. 

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Josh Chase is a fire Lieutenant with Norfolk Fire Rescue, and is a 15 year veteran of the fire service. He has a passion for leadership and strengthening firefighters to lead at the informal level. 

Josh has authored a couple of books with his latest book being Jump Seat Leadership: The Lead Yourself Workbook and his first fire service book: Jump Seat Leadership: The guide to informal leadership. 

He believes in leading yourself before leading others and that you do not need a bugle to lead in the fire service. 

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Jesse is the Training Chief for a fire department in Southeast Michigan, where he has served since 2002. He is passionate about taking an innovative approach to training and continuing education. He has presented at various state and national conferences and enjoys learning as much as he can about the fire service. Jesse has a master’s degree in Public Safety & Emergency Management and is a graduate of Eastern Michigan University’s Fire Staff & Command School. He is an Instructor I, Blue Card IMS Instructor and an ISFSI Understanding and Fighting Basement Fires Instructor. 

He places an emphasis on building construction, fire dynamics, strategic level command and operational readiness. He is an active member of the International Society of Fire Service Instructors (ISFSI) and is currently the Committee Chair for the Mentoring/Coaching Initiative. He also serves as a member of the recently launched Professional Development Task Force, and was awarded the ISFSI President’s Service Award in 2021. 

As an instructor, Jesse specializes in curriculum design, educational methodology and educational technology. He was also an original member of the Western Wayne County USAR Team where he served as a Rescue Specialist, Team Leader and Training Coordinator. Jesse continues to seek out new ways to develop, master and maintain the many skills needed by today’s fire service providers. 

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Cameron grew up on an orchard in Hood River Valley, started volunteering as a high school student. Spent 7 seasons with Oregon Department of Forestry before moving to Baker City (OR) to take a Firefighter/EMT job. THEN HE Took a Training/Safety Captain job at North Whidbey Fire & Rescue (WA) where he spent 12-months rebuilding the training division and constructing a 1,700 sqFt class A training facility. Then he moved back to Baker City as the Division Chief of Training. 

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