CHIEF BILLY GOLDFEDER, EFO
A firefighter since 1973, serves as a Battalion Chief for the Loveland-Symmes FD
in SW Ohio. LSFD is an ISO Class 2, full service career department providing a
full range of traditional and non-traditional emergency & community
services.
A Chief Officer since 1982, he has served as a Fire Chief in Ohio, Virginia and
Florida. Chief Goldfeder also served as a Public Protection representative
covering southern New York, for I.S.O. as well as a Lieutenant with the
Manhasset-Lakeville FD, in Long Island, N.Y.
A 1993 graduate of the National Fire Academy's Executive Fire Officer Program,
he is the former Chair of the Int'l Assoc. of Fire Chiefs VCOS Section. In
2001, Chief Goldfeder was honored with an appointment of the rank of Hon.
Battalion Chief of F.D.N.Y. Additionally, he is the recipient of over 30
operational and administrative awards and recognitions.
Chief Goldfeder recently completed his 6th year as a Commissioner on the
Commission of Fire Accreditation International. He serves as an
Associate/Contributing Editor for FIRE ENGINEERING, FIRE RESCUE, FIREHOUSE, THE
NEW YORK VOL. FIREFIGHTER & The PENNSYLVANIA FIREMAN Magazines as well as
WithTheCommand.Com, Firehouse.Com, Firehouse.Com MemberZone, SCOnFire (South
Carolina) and is a member of the Fire & Emergency Television Network (F.E.T.N.)
Advisory Board. He has spoken on as well as published numerous articles on
subjects such as combination FD's, fire command and tactics, firefighter/fireground
safety, apparatus design and deployment and fireground staffing. His
monthly column devoted to firefighter safety and survival, "Close
Calls" appears in FIREHOUSE Magazine.
Chief Goldfeder has served on several NFPA and IAFC Committees and has been an
Instructor at the Fire Department Instructors Conference (FDIC) for the past 22
years, a member of the FDIC Advisory Board for the past 12 years and recently
appointed as a member of the FDIC Executive Advisory Board. He has been on
the faculty of Command School since 2000 and is a frequent speaker/instructor at
many local and national fire service professional conferences including F.D.I.C.,
F.D.I.C. West, Firehouse World Expo, IAFC's Fire Rescue International and
Firehouse Expo.