President: Eddie Buchanan
Chief Buchanan began his fire service career in 1982 and currently serves as the Operations Division Chief forHanover (VA) Fire & EMS. Hanover is a large combination system consisting of more than 600 paid and volunteer personnel. Chief Buchanan is author of the Volunteer Training Officer’s Handbook from Pennwell Books and Videos and lectures throughout the country on fire service leadership and training topics. He is co-author of the Red, White & Blue Ribbon Reports from the Volunteer/Combination Officer’s Section of the International Association of Fire Chiefs. Chief Buchanan currently serves as President of theInternational Society of Fire Service Instructors and serves on the Technical Committee on Fire Services Training for the National Fire Protection Association.
Vice President: Doug Cline
Douglas Cline is a 28-year veteran and student of the Fire Service serving as Training Commander with the City of High Point (NC) Fire Department and Assistant Chief of Administration with the Ruffin Volunteer Fire Department.
Cline, a passionate fire instructor and former Fire Chief, is a North Carolina Level II Fire Instructor, National Fire Academy Instructor and an EMT-Paramedic instructor/coordinator for the North Carolina Office of Emergency Medical Services. Cline is a member of the North Carolina Society of Fire Service Instructors and the International Society of Fire Service Instructors where he serves on the Board of Directors as The First Vice President. Cline serves the Southeastern Association of Fire Chiefs as the second vice president. Cline also serves as a FEMA grant criteria development committee member, peer reviewer for the Fire Act Grants, the Northern Director for the Piedmont North Carolina Fireman’s Association, Piedmont Director for the North Carolina Fallen Firefighters Foundation and Southeastern Association of Fire Chief’s Second Vice President.
2nd Vice President: Chris Naum
Christopher J. Naum, SFPE is a 35-year fire service veteran and a member of the ISFSI since 1981. He is presently the Chief of Training for the Command Institute; a Washington, DC based emergency management, research, development & training organization. A nationally recognized authority on building construction, structural collapse and command management, he has traveled throughout the United States and internationally delivering training programs on building construction, command risk management and firefighter safety. Chief Naum is a former Fire Chief/ Fire & Safety Coordinator at a U.S nuclear power plant and previously served as a commanding company officer for over twenty years in field operations with a volunteer fire department in Central New York.
An Adjunct Instructor with the National Fire Academy, he specializes in training courses for Structural Collapse, Building Construction and Firefighter Safety & Health. A Contributing Editor with Firehouse Magazine since 1988 and Firehouse.com since 2002, he has authored numerous articles on building construction, firefighting operations, command, leadership and special technical rescue operations. He authors the periodic column at Firehouse.com entitled- Structural Anatomy that focuses on building construction, command risk management and firefighter safety and also advocates and writes extensively within various fire service internet training forums and groups including Fire Engineering, FireRescue1 and Firefighter Nation where he authors the Command Safety and Building Construction & Firefighter Safety Groups.
He was the 1987 ISFSI George D. Post National Fire Instructor of the Year as presented by the International Society of Fire Service Instructors. In addition, Mr. Naum has over fourteen years of experience within the areas of architectural design and planning & having served as a project architect for an architecture & engineering firm. He has served on numerous FEMA, USFA, NFPA, IAFC and ISFSI task forces, committees and panels over the past thirty years and holds full professional member grade Fire Protection Engineer-SFPE, status from the Society of Fire Protection Engineers.
He is an active supporter and participant of the NFFF, The Everyone Goes Home Initiatives and the Near Miss Reporting Systems. A member of the IAFC since 1987, he served over ten years as a charter member of the IAFC Urban Rescue Structural Collapse Committee and is a member of the Safety, Health & Survival Section and the Volunteer Chief Officers Section. He also serves on the Board of Directors with the International Association of Fire Chiefs, Safety, Health & Survival Section (IAFC SH&S) and on the Board of Directors of the Open Fire Academy International (OFA).
