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Course detail: Fire Forum June 2024
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This regional training event offers attendees an opportunity to learn from fire service trainers and thought leaders from across the American fire service. Offered in a limited-seating format, participants can interact and engage in the forums to understand how the messages relate to their individual or departmental needs. Tactics, training, and leadership: There's something to help everyone become more aggressively effective.
2024 Speakers include:
SPEAKER: Chief Anthony Avillo, M.S. (Retired) retired after a 30-year career in the fire service. Avillo was a deputy chief in North Hudson (NJ) Regional Fire & Rescue, assigned as 1st Platoon regional tour commander. He holds a Master's Degree in National Security Studies and a BS degree in Fire Science from New Jersey City University. Avillo is currently the Director and Deputy Fire Marshal at the Monmouth County (NJ) Fire Academy. He is an Adjunct Professor at New Jersey City University. Avillo is an FDIC instructor and member of the FDIC advisory board and the editorial advisory board of Fire Engineering. He is the author of Fireground Strategies, 3rd edition (Fire Engineering, 2015) and Fireground Strategies Workbook Volumes I, II, and III (Fire Engineering, 2002, 2010, 2016). Avillo also co-authored with Chief Ed Flood Full Contact Leadership, (Fire Engineering, 2017). He was a contributing author to Fire Engineering's Handbook for Firefighter I and Firefighter II (Fire Engineering, 2009, 2018) and is a co-author of its Study Guide (Fire Engineering, 2010). Avillo has also contributed to both volumes of the Pass It On books by Billy Goldfeder (Pennwell, 2015, 2016). Avillo also has a regular column in Fire Rescue magazine called Progress Reports. Avillo was a collaborator in the Tactical Perspectives DVD series (Fire Engineering, 2011) and has issued the DVD's Control of Fireground Operations (Fire Engineering, 2016) and Forging a Culture of Safety (Fire Engineering, 2013). Avillo also co-hosts a radio show, Fireground Strategies and Other Stuff from the Street with Chief Jim Duffy on Fire Engineering BlogTalk Radio. Avillo was the recipient of the 2012 Fire Engineering/ISFSI George D. Post Fire Instructor of the Year Award.
Alana Brunacini, DBH, LPC, holds a master's degree in clinical psychology and mental health counseling from Agrosy University and a doctoral degree in behavioral health from Arizona State University. She is an independently licensed professional counselor in the state of Arizona and a certified trauma therapist. Her professional focus is rooted in healthy systems for healthy communities and pathways to thrive after personal or group traumas.
Alana's clinical background spans diverse populations and settings beginning in 2009; she has worked in public health, EMS, addictions, corrections, crisis response, and public safety. She has provided direct services as well as administration and program development. Alana consults with public safety agencies for numerous behavioral health-related needs including alternate service program assessment and development, staff training on addiction and mental health, and leadership workshops tailored to managing behavioral health issues within organizations. She has worked with managerial and administrative teams on relationship dynamics across public safety and civilian positions for numerous departments including, the Cochise County Sheriff's Office, the Berkeley Fire Department, the Loveland Symmes Fire Department, and The Tucson Fire Department. Alana was also a chair for the CalFire behavioral health and cancer prevention curriculum cadre. She lives in Bisbee, AZ with her family.
