Billy Goldfeder

Chief Billy Goldfeder, EFO, a firefighter since 1973 and a chief since 1982, serves as a Deputy Fire Chief of the Loveland-Symmes Fire Department in Southwest Ohio. LSFD is an ISO Class 2, full service ALS department providing a full range of traditional and non-traditional emergency and community services. Chief Goldfeder also served as a Public Protection representative covering southern New York, for I.S.O. as well as a company Officer, starting with the Manhasset-Lakeville Fire Department, in Long Island, NY.

A 1993 graduate of the National Fire Academy's Executive Fire Officer Program, he is the former Chair of the International Association of Fire Chiefs VCOS Section. In 2001, Chief Goldfeder was honored with an appointment of Hon. Battalion Chief of F.D.N.Y. and is a member of the Board of Directors of the September 11th Families Association, the Board of Directors of the National Fallen Firefighters Foundation and provides technical assistance to the NIOSH Fire Fighter Fatality Investigation and Prevention Program . Additionally, he is the recipient of numerous operational and administrative awards and recognitions and received the Loveland-Symmes Fire Department Departmental Award of Excellence in 2003, the ISFSI Fire Instructor of The Year Award for 2004, the Dana Hannon Fire Training Award for 2004, the I.A.F.C's Presidential Award for 2005 and the 2007 IFSTA Everett E. Hudiburg Memorial Award for firefighter training excellence.

Chief Goldfeder recently completed his sixth year as a Commissioner on the Commission of Fire Accreditation International.

He serves as an Associate/Contributing Editor for Firehouse.com, Firehouse Magazine, Fire Engineering, Fire Rescue and is a member of the F.E.T.N. (Fire and Emergency Television Network) Advisory Board. He has spoken on, as well as published, numerous articles on subjects such as combination fire department's, fire command and tactics, firefighter/fireground safety, apparatus design and deployment and fireground staffing. His monthly column "Close Calls" appears in Firehouse Magazine and hosts a bi-weekly radio show, Through The Smoke, on Firehouse.com.

Chief Goldfeder has served on several NFPA and IAFC Committees, is the Chairman of the IAFC Safety, Health and Survival Section, serves on the National Firefighter Near-Miss Reporting Task Force Board (IAFC) and has been an instructor at the Fire Department Instructors Conference (F.D.I.C.) for the past 25 years as well as a member of the FDIC Advisory Board for the past 15 years. He has and does provide consulting services for municipal and private corporations with a clear focus on firefighter safety and survival.

Chief Goldfeder, along with Captain Gordon Graham, police/fire service risk management expert, attorney and California Highway Patrol Captain, hosts and sponsors www.FireFighterCloseCalls.com, a 100% non-commercial, independent and free site with only 1 focus: Firefighter Safety, Survival and Getting Everyone Home.