RON MOORE
Series Technical Advisor

Ron currently serves as a Battalion Chief with the McKinney TX Fire Department.  As the department’s Training Officer, Ron is responsible for development, delivery and evaluation of continuing education fire and rescue training programs for the 126-member, fire department serving a city of 109,000 from 6 fire stations. He is the author of the University of Extrication series, featured each month in Firehouse magazine and is the moderator of the University of Extrication interactive web site on Firehouse.Com.

Ron has conducted advanced automobile rescue seminars and bus rescue training programs nationwide since 1979. In 1984, he received the International Society of Fire Service Instructors George D. Post Instructor of the Year award for development of the first school bus rescue training program in the United States. In 2000, Ron was awarded the International Association of Fire Chief’s Excellence in Rescue award.

In addition to being a technical advisor on our Vehicle Extrication Series, Ron is the author of Vehicle Rescue and Extrication, 2nd edition, a training text published by Mosby Company.