CMC School instructors are passionate, dedicated teaching professionals who bring high-level technical knowledge and real-life rescue experience to each and every class. Recognized as some of the industry’s most experienced rescue professionals, their highly effective hands-on training and emphasis on learn by doing sets the CMC School apart.
Collectively they possess more than 500 years of pride in professional service, and they’ve faced nearly every rescue situation imaginable. Individually they participate in advanced rescue training seminars and techniques, contribute to NFPA and ASTM committees shaping and setting industry standards, and work extensively with their respective state training organizations.
CMC School instructors are all members of emergency response units and actively answer the call to building collapses, mountain, industrial and underground rescue. They are trusted and respected teachers representing the industry’s best-practice techniques and equipment for emergency response professionals.
IN PROFESSIONAL SERVICE SINCE 1992
WITH CMC SINCE 1994
OCCUPATION / AGENCIES
Firefighter, Newport Beach (CA) Fire Department
Instructor, California State Fire Training
• Rope Rescue Technician (Senior Instructor)
• Rescue Systems I and II (Senior Instructor)
• Trench Rescue Technician (Senior Instructor)
• Low-angle Rope Rescue Operations
• Society of Professional Rope Access Technicians (SPRAT) Level 1
Member, California State Fire Training
• Trench Rescue Technician – Curriculum Development Working Group
• Rescue Systems 2 – Working Group
• Rescue Systems 1 – Working Group
IN PROFESSIONAL SERVICE SINCE 1987
WITH CMC SINCE 1998
OCCUPATION / AGENCIES
Operator / Paramedic, Reno (NV) Fire Department
Director, Reno (NV) Fire Department Urban Search and Rescue Team
Firefighter, Bend and Portland (OR) Fire Departments (previous)
Member, Deschutes County Sheriff’s Search and Rescue Team
IN PROFESSIONAL SERVICE SINCE 1993
WITH CMC SINCE 2013
OCCUPATION / AGENCIES
Owner / Founder, Rescue 2 Training
Firefighter, Washington (DC) Fire Department, Rescue 2
Instructor, Washington (DC) Fire Department, Special Operations Division
Member, Society of Professional Rope Access Technicians (SPRAT), Level III
IN PROFESSIONAL SERVICE SINCE 1982
WITH CMC SINCE 1993
OCCUPATION / AGENCIES
Instructor, Certified Mine Rescue, Federal Mine Safety Health Administration (MSHA)
Member, Montrose Search and Rescue Team, Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department
Member, Los Angeles County Underground Search and Rescue Team
Member, California Occupational Safety and Health Administration (CAL-OSHA) Mining and Tunneling Unit
Participation in more than 1,250 SAR Operations
IN PROFESSIONAL SERVICE SINCE 1989
WITH CMC SINCE 1993
OCCUPATION / AGENCIES
Captain, Former Helicopter Crew Chief and FEMA Urban Search & Rescue Coordinator, Orange County (CA) Fire Authority
Instructor, FEMA, Structural Collapse Specialist, Certified Level II
Instructor
, California State Fire Training
• Rope Rescue Technician (Senior Instructor)
• Confined Space Rescue Technician (Senior Instructor)
• Rescue Systems I (Primary Instructor)
• Rescue Systems III (Senior Instructor)
Member, California State Fire Training
• Rope Rescue Technician Curriculum Development Working Group
• Confined Space Technician Working Group
Member, FEMA CATF-5 Heavy Equipment and Rigging Specialist
Member, California OES, Regional Task Force Working Group
Member, ASTM F-32 Committee on Search and Rescue
Member (non-voting), FEMA, Rescue Sub Group
Nationally Certified Rigger Level I and II (NCCCO)
IN PROFESSIONAL SERVICE SINCE 2001
WITH CMC SINCE 2014
OCCUPATION / AGENCIES
Firefighter Paramedic, City of Glendale Fire Department (CA)
Instructor
, California State Fire Training
• Rescue Systems I (Primary Instructor)
• Rescue Systems II (Senior Instructor)
• Trench Rescue Technician (Senior Instructor)
• Low Angle Rope Rescue
Member, California Regional Task Force 4
Member, California OES, Regional Task Force Working Group
IN PROFESSIONAL SERVICE SINCE 1976
WITH CMC SINCE 2017
OCCUPATION / AGENCIES
Fire Captain, City of Gresham (Oregon) Fire Department, 1987-2013
Fire Instructor , Gateway Technical College
Team Leader, Gresham Fire Department, High Angle and Confined Space Rescue Team
Rescue Leader and Training Chair, Portland Mountain Rescue
Past President, Mountain Rescue Association
IN PROFESSIONAL SERVICE SINCE 1981 (retired)
WITH CMC SINCE 1999
OCCUPATION / AGENCIES
Firefighter, City of Waukesha (WI) Fire Department
Battalion Chief / Training Officer, Caledonia Fire Department
Member, City of Waukesha (WI) Special Services Team
Member, United States Air Force Reserve
IN PROFESSIONAL SERVICE SINCE 2001
WITH CMC SINCE 2015
OCCUPATION / AGENCIES
Captain, City of Oceanside Fire Department (CA)
Instructor
, California State Fire Training
• Confined Space Rescue Technician (Primary Instructor)
• Trench Rescue Technician (Senior Instructor)
• Low Angle Rope Rescue
Member, FEMA California Task Force 8
OCCUPATION / AGENCIES
Santa Fe Springs Fire Department since 1977
Division Chief (retired), Santa Fe Springs (CA) Fire Department
CMC – Technical Rescue Instructor since 1997
Instructor
,California State Fire Training
• Rescue Systems I (Primary Instructor)
• Rescue Systems II (Senior Instructor)
• Confined Space Rescue Technician (Senior Instructor)
• Trench Rescue Technician (Senior Instructor)
• Low Angle Rope Rescue Operational (Primary Instructor)
Member,California State Fire Training
• Trench Rescue Technician – Curriculum Development Working Group (Chair of Committee)
• Rescue Systems 2 – Working Group
• Rescue Systems 1 – Working Group
IN PROFESSIONAL SERVICE SINCE 1981 (volunteer), 1989 (career)
WITH CMC SINCE 2017
OCCUPATION / AGENCIES
Fire Chief, Pleasant Prairie Fire & Rescue (Retired)
Fire Instructor , Gateway Technical College
High Angle Training Coordinator,MABAS Division 4 and 5 Specialized Response Teams (previous)
Member, Kenosha County Specialized Response Teams
Lieutenant, Wheatland Fire Department (previous)
Firefighter EMT-I, Lake Geneva Fire Department (previous)
Firefighter EMT, Paris Fire and Rescue
IN PROFESSIONAL SERVICE SINCE 1974
WITH CMC SINCE 1995
OCCUPATION / AGENCIES
Director / Lead Instructor, CMC School
Instructor, California Governor’s Office of Emergency Services (OES)
• Search Management and Winter Search Management, California Peace Officer Standards and Training (POST) Certified
Instructor, Mine Rescue (MSHA)
Instructor, California State Fire Training
• Rope Rescue Technician (Senior Instructor)
• Confined Space Rescue Technician (Senior Instructor)
Member, California State Fire Training
• Rope Rescue Technician Working Group
• Confined Space Technician Working Group
Member, Montrose (CA) Search and Rescue Team, Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department
IN PROFESSIONAL SERVICE SINCE 1985
WITH CMC SINCE 2017
OCCUPATION / AGENCIES
Employed by Safety Access & Rescue since 2000
Instructor , Wilderness / Industrial Rescue
Level 3 Rope Access Technician
Military Parachute Jump Instructor, 10 years
Mountain / Outdoor Instructor, Australian School of Mountaineering, 7 years
IN PROFESSIONAL SERVICE SINCE 1978
WITH CMC SINCE 2013
OCCUPATION / AGENCIES
Deputy Chief, State Search and Rescue Coordinator, California Govenor’s Office of Emergency Services (OES)
• Law Enforcement Division
Course Coordinator, California Governor’s Office of Emergency Services (OES)
• Search Management and Winter Search Management, California Peace Officer Standards and Training (POST) Certified
Local SAR Team Instructor, Rope Rescue
Member, Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)
• National Incident Management System (NIMS) Typing and Credentialing Committees; Search and Rescue, and Emergency Management
Member, State Search and Rescue Coordinators’ Council, past Vice Chairman
CMC has long been recognized as the source on how to use technical rescue equipment, teaching their first contract rope rescue course in 1982. Though CMC’s Rescue School has a long rescue training history, it remains adaptive and in step with the evolution of rescue techniques, equipment and hardware; updating and revising their classes regularly to bring students the latest and best information on rope rescue techniques from their vast network of rescue professionals.
Advance your career with CMC School classes designed to suit your company’s needs and skill level. On the “Classes” page you can find training classes and class sessions with curriculums designed to deliver unique training tips, method of operations insights, safety standards requirements, efficient techniques and product research observations for your profession as a firefighter, SAR member, USAR team, water rescue guard, first responder or one of the many other work-at-height professions.
Rope Rescue Technician I / II
Covers rope rescue fundamentals, focusing on high and low angle rescue techniques. The course covers skills used in mountain, industrial, and confined space rescues.
Rope Rescue Technician III
Covers NFPA 1006 Rope Rescue – Technician Level Skills.
Confined Space Technician Rescue
Covers NFPA 1006 Confined Space Rescue – Technician Level.
Trench Rescue Technician
Covers Technician Level Trench & Evacuation Rescue Skills in NFPA 1006.
Emergency Building Shoring
Covers Technician Level Structural Collapse in NFPA 1006, and meets FEMA Specialists Requirements.
Custom classes can be tailored to specific needs and taught at your location. This allows teams to develop skills based on the rescue situations they are most likely to encounter. CMC School has developed custom classes for agencies and companies around the globe and in a variety of industries including: