Ed has been a member of the Seattle Fire Department since 1984 and was honored as the Seattle Fire Department Officer of the Year in 2002. He has been a member of the department’s Hazardous Materials Response Team since 1992. He is an IAFF Master Instructor, a US&R Lead Instructor and has developed and taught a variety of courses on Hazardous Materials (Awareness, Operations, and Technician level), Technical Rescue, and Weapons of Mass Destruction. He is a HazMat Team Leader on US&R WA-TF1 and the regional MMRS team and served for three years on the PP&OE Subcommittee of the Department of Justice Interagency Board for Equipment Standardization. He is currently a member of the Washington State Technical Advisory Group for the development of a state-certified Hazardous Materials Technician program. Ed is the Executive Vice-President of the Emergency Response Training Institute, he has two children attending the University of Washington and lives in Bonney Lake, WA, with his wife and three dogs.
