The Board of Directors of the National Fire Heritage Center met in Emmitsburg, Maryland, on Oct. 7, 2019, and inducted the following fire and emergency services leaders into the Hall of Legends, Legacies and Leaders.
Dr. Harry Robert Carter, FIFireE
哈里·r·卡特博士是一位资深首席消防办公室做事er, an internationally known municipal fire protection consultant, author, writer, and lecturer. He currently serves as a fire commissioner and is Chairman of the Board of Fire Commissioners for Fire District #2 in Howell Township, New Jersey. Dr. Carter has also served on the adjunct faculty of a number of community colleges in New Jersey, as well as the National Fire Academy in Emmitsburg, Maryland. He formerly served on the faculty of the School of Public Safety Leadership at Capella University in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He holds a Doctor of Philosophy from Capella, a Masters in Political Science from Rutgers University, a Bachelor’s degree in Fire Safety Administration from Jersey City State College, a Bachelor’s in Arts from Thomas A. Edison University, and an Associate Degree in Business Administration from Brookdale Community College. He retired in 1999 as a Suppression Division Battalion Commander with the Newark Fire Department in New Jersey. During his tenure in Newark, he served as Chief of Training, Commander of the Hazardous Materials Response Team, and Administrative Assistant to the Fire Chief. Dr. Carter is also a past Fire Chief and former Training Officer of the Adelphia Fire Company, located in the Adelphia section of Howell Township, New Jersey. He currently serves as the fire company Chaplain. He also serves as Chaplain for the East Freehold Fire Company in Freehold Township, New Jersey. Dr. Carter is a Fellow of the United States of America Branch of the Institution of Fire Engineers, Great Britain (FIFireE). Dr. Carter is currently serving as a Past President for the branch. He is a Life Member and former President of the International Society of Fire Service Instructors. Dr. Carter is also currently the President of the New Jersey State Association of Fire Districts and is a former President of the New Jersey Society of Fire Service Instructors. He is a Life Member of the National Fire Protection Association and has served on their technical committees since 1975. He has authored or co-authored twenty fire service texts as well as publishing more than 3,000 journal, magazine, and on-line articles and commentaries. From 1977 to 1981, he served as a member of the Joint Council of Fire Service Organizations.
Chief Fire Marshal James Dalton
詹姆斯·道尔顿（James Dalton）于1960年1月加入银泉玛丽兰消防局（Silver Spring Maryland Fire Department），开始了他的漫长职业生涯。他们离开华盛顿特区消防局几年后，他返回在马里兰州蒙哥马利县任职的其余部分，并在接下来的十七年中晋升为助理首席，部门的职位消防和救援服务。1977年，他被任命为马里兰州蒙哥马利县的首席消防元帅，在那里他监督了防火局及其计划审查和工程，消防检查，消防调查和公共消防安全教育的部门。在担任首席消防元帅期间，他负责执行该国的第一批也是最全面的烟雾探测器法之一。After returning from the Operation San Francisco fast response fire sprinkler tests sponsored by USFA and the Marriott Corporation in the early 80’s he began to lay the groundwork for what ultimately would become a requirement for the sprinkling of all one and two-family homes in Montgomery County. In the fall of 1983, he was loaned to the United States Fire Administration to coordinate the development and delivery of National fire prevention and fire safety education grant program on behalf of USFS and the International Society of Fire Service Instructors (ISFSI).
Dr. Christopher M. Frasier
克里斯托弗·弗雷西尔（Christopher M.例如NASA，公司和工业客户。弗雷西尔（Frasier）博士在职业生涯中影响了全球应急响应者的知识和领导力发展。他指导了其中的许多人担任领导职务。弗雷西尔博士（Frasier博士向美国国会议员开展消防运营，作为一种资源，是为能源部执行基线需求评估的团队的资源，与公司与一家公司开发和引入新的紧急服务空气采样系统和教学的市场开发和介绍当地大学的消防和紧急服务课程。
Paul F. Hannemann
保罗目前受雇于德克萨斯A&M森林Service as the Department Head for the Incident Response Department, having started with the Texas A&M Forest Service as a Contract Trainer in 1981. In 1995, he became the first fulltime Regional Fire Coordinator. He is responsible for State assisted fire protection for 254 counties in Texas and serves as Incident Commander on Texas Forest Service’s Lone Star State Type I Incident Management Team. He is responsible for oversight for two major state Interagency Wildfire and Incident Management Academies and is responsible for all Emergency Response fire training for the Texas A&M Forest Service. He is Chairman of Task Force for planning Industrial Fires of State Significance in Texas, and serves on the USFS Region’s Planning and Logistics Section and Command & General Staff Training Cadre. He is a valued member of the Texas Intrastate Fire Mutual System (TIMAS) Oversight Committee, Serves on the DHS-USFA Type II IMT Development Team and is Lead Instructor for All-Hazard Incident Management Team Course and Position-Specific courses. He serves on the National Association of State Forester (NASF) Complex Incident Management Course Cadre, the NWCG Operations & Training Committee, NIMS-ICS Committee, L-580 Leadership Course Steering Committee, and Incident Management Organization Successions Planning project. Paul had the vision to pre-plan and secure funding for equipment and personnel to be ready when major brush, wildland, and forest fires have threatened thousands of miles of Texas landscape and communities. He currently serves as a Deputy IC on the State Emergency Response Team for the Texas Division of Emergency Management. He served as a Deputy Incident Commander on the Columbia Shuttle Recovery. Paul is part of the FEMA’s All-Hazard Incident Management Team Development Group and is part of the cadre delivering the training program across the United States.
酋长约瑟夫·马克·斯塔恩斯
Joe Starnes is project Co-Founder and Chief of KTF (Kill the Flashover), a society of fire trades personnel dedicated to the passion for preventing thermal injuries and death to firefighters. KTF is an ongoing project of live fire testing of the impact of fire suppression tactics on fire behavior. For more, read www.killtheflashover.com. Chief Joe Starnes is retired from AT&T (43 Years) as a Six Sigma Quality Manager, Six Sigma Black Belt, and Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity Manager. Some of the most notable responses were the World Trade Center and many hurricanes such as Hurricane Katrina. As well as the Chief of KTF, Joe is currently the PIO and Fire Behavior Specialist with Oak Grove Volunteer Fire and Rescue in Kings Mountain, NC, serving under the leadership of Chief Davis. He is an internationally known author and speaker on Fire Behavior, Command, Process Management, and Leadership. Chief Starnes has served as a volunteer since 1978, in most of his roles and the Fire Chief for Sandy Ridge VFD (retired).
Lee R. Starrick Sr.
李·r·Starrick Sr的消防职业生涯forty-two years’ service in municipal, military, aviation, and industrial fire departments. During his thirty-five years with the Kennedy Space Center Fire Department (KSCFD) he served as Firefighter, Driver Operator, Crew Chief, and Lieutenant. Starrick served on the Apollo 16 Astronaut Rescue Team and the Space Shuttle Pad Rescue Teams for 73 space shuttle launches. His Pad Rescue team service included overseas assignments on the Transoceanic Abort Landing (TAL) Rescue teams at one for four TAL sites in Africa and Spain. Starrick epitomizes the “Preserving the perishable” mission of the National Fire Heritage Center in that he recorded the daily events at the Kennedy Space Center fire department and maintained an extensive historical record of the KSCFD role in the NASA space program. Starrick was instrumental in retrieving and preserving extensive boxes of photographs and documents destined for disposal. Since 1984, Starrick has served as a Docent for the Air Force Space and Missile Museum and as Space Artifacts Administrator for the Space Walk of Fame Museum.
The National Fire Heritage Center’s Board of Directors established the Hall of Legends, Legacies and Leaders (HLLL) in 2010. The HLLL provides individual recognition of significant contributions and distinguished service to the fire and emergency services mission.
The Hall of Legends, Legacies and Leaders (HLLL) induction ceremony will be held in conjunction with the FDIC 2020 International Opening Ceremonies on Thursday, April 23, 2020 at the Indiana Convention Center in Indianapolis, Indiana.
