Douglas B Dillon, USCG (RET)
*Executive Director, TMSA
*Chief, Maritime Incident Response Team
Douglas Dillon is Executive Director of the Tri-state Maritime Safety Association and Chief of the DE/NJ/PA Maritime Incident Response Team. He is a 23-year veteran of the United States Coast Guard. He is the president of the Association of Marine Fire Fighting Organizations, a national non-profit created to address Maritime Consequence Management issues affecting first responders and our nations Maritime Transportation System. He was the Port Safety and Security Officer for the Fifth Coast Guard District during DESERT SHIELD/STORM and was responsible for training and equipping the Port Security Detachment in the 5th District. He supervised all port security at outload operations in the Port of Wilmington NC during OPERATION UPHOLD DEMOCRACY. He is a member of the Maritime Transportation System National Advisory Council (MTSNAC) Security Team. He has served as a police officer in NJ and has been with the fire service since 1979 and is currently a chief officer with the Broomall Fire Company in Broomall, PA. He serves as the Marine Safety Officer of the Camden City Fire Department, Camden New Jersey. He is currently the chief instructor for the Delaware River and Bay Marine Fire Fighting Task Force. He is currently a member of the IFSTA Marine Committee and a past member of the NFPA 1925 Fireboat Committee. He has been involved in 13 significant marine fires in his career and numerous other vessel and waterfront incidents as well as the 2001 fatal Pier 34 collapse in Philadelphia, PA.
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Al Huelsenbeck, BC, Wilmington Fire Department
*Deputy Chief, Maritime Incident Response Team, Operations
Battalion Chief Huelsenbeck is currently serving with the Wilmington Fire Department in Wilmington, Delaware. He has a bachelor’s degree in fire service management from the University of Maryland. He is a 36-year veteran of the career fire service and has been serving as a chief since 1987 as a result of competitive testing. He is a USCG licensed Master 100 Gross Tons Near Coastal. He serves as Deputy Chief, Operations for the DE/NJ/PA Maritime Incident Response Team as well as the Board of Directors of TMSA. He is a fire service instructor in New Jersey and Delaware and currently part of the NJ Fire Officer training and certication cadre. He is also a lead instructor with the Delaware River and Bay Marine Fire Fighting Task Force and with the curriculum development group that designed the marine fire fighting training. He has been involved in several major marine fires including the initial incident commander of the M/V Centaurus in 1989, which can be seen in the American Heat video series. He is one of the leading professionals in Marine Fire Fighting in the U.S. having trained responders from the United States, Canada and Latin America. He is a routine guest speaker on marine fire fighting throughout the country including a 2000 & 2001 presentation of Marine Fire Fighting Awareness, Operations & Technician hosted by the Boston Fire Department. He was an instructor in Boston’s MIRT sponsored Train-the-Trainer Marine Fire Fighting program. He was a contributor to the 2001 revision of NFPA 1405, USCG Incident Management Guidebook and IFSTA’s Marine Fire Fighting for Land Based Firefighters manual. He has presented the Marine Fire Fighting Training Program at the National Fire Academy. Al is co-author of Rapid Intervention in the Marine Environment that appeared in the July 2001 issue of Fire Engineering. |
Paul Price, DC, Camden Fire Department
Deputy Chief, Maritime Incident Response Team, Planning |
George Kaiser, DCC, USNR (Ret), Collingdale Fire Company
Captain, Maritime Incident Response Team, Team Leader |
Gary Burgin, Pennsauken Fire Dept
Assistant Chief, Maritime Incident Response Team |
BC Dominic Ianelli, Goodyear Arizona Fire Department
Assistant Chief, Maritime Incident Response Team, Accountability |
Mike Solecki, US EPA Region II
EPA HAZMAT/RESPONSE Coord |
Brian Moore
USCG Licensed Master, |
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