Our faculty  I Our evaluators I Class offerings I Request classes  I  Email us Buster Cooper Buster Cooper, a 22-year veteran of the fire service, is a Captain with the Conway (AR) Fire Department. He is a state certified Firefighter I & II, Officer I, Instructor I, a member of the Technical Rescue Team. He is an adjunct instructor for the Arkansas Fire Academy and lead instructor for their Firefighter Standards Forcible Entry, Ventilation and Firefighter Survival hands-on programs. He has been lead instructor for CFD Fire College and Pulaski County Fire College Forcible Entry, Firefighter Safety & Survival and Ventilation programs and a prior Rescue 3 International Swift Water Instructor. He has been a FDIC classroom instructor for the past two years. Jim Stedman Chief Stedman retired from the Chicago Fire Dept. in 2006, after a 30 year career.   He worked in busy areas on the city’s west side, lower east side tenement and high rise district, and ultimately in the 1st Battalion in the downtown area.  He trained newly promoted Lieutenants, Captains, and Battalion Chiefs in strategy & tactics, incident command, human resource management, ISO (State of Illinois Certificate), fire service instructing, and other officer development criteria.  Jim is currently a professor at Columbia Southern University (Fire Service Admin); Lewis University (Fire Service Admin - undergrad) and (Public Safety graduate program); Governors State University (Public Administration graduate program). Steve Schellenberg A third generation firefighter with the Washington DC FD, Steve served for over 28 years before recently retiring as a  Battalion Fire Chief from the 6th Battalion. With 15 years of  Engine Company experience at the ranks of private, technician and Lieutenant, five years of Truck Company experience at the ranks of Lieutenant and Captain and a year of experience in the Rescue Squad at the rank of Sergeant. He is a level II Instructor having served as an adjunct instructor to the Training Division. Steve chaired the Department’s Truck Company SOP’s committee and co-authored the PPV procedures for DCFD. Christopher Naum A 36-year fire service veteran he is the Chief of Training for the Command Institute, Washington, DC. An internationally recognized authority on building construction and firefighter safety, he is an Adjunct Instructor with the National Fire Academy, and a member of the Board of Directors, IAFC Safety, Health & Survival Section, the Open Fire Academy International and the ISFSI. A former architect and fire protection engineer, he was the 1987 ISFSI George D. Post National Fire Instructor of the Year.  Pat Pauly A 39 year veteran of the fire service, Pat has been employed as a resident instructor at the Pennsylvania State Fire Academy since 1988 where he supervises 80 adjunct instructors. He is a nationally certified Firefighter III, Fire Officer II, Fire Instructor II,  and EMT. He has served as a chief officer in the Lewistown (PA) FD.  He is the Fire Chief at the West Granville Fire Company in Lewistown, PA. Ray Gretz Ray is currently serves as Battalion Chief in the District of Columbia Fire and EMS Department's 4th Battalion.  He has extensive experience in command, engine and truck company operations. He is in the EFO program at the National Fire Academy and is nearing completion of his master's degree in Homeland Security from Naval Postgraduate School.