EFO Symposium & Awards
Past Symposium Slides
Each year, the best of the fire service presents at the EFO and Leadership Symposium. We've created a site to showcase those presentations. Use them to help educate others!
Past Award Winners
2018 Winners
Presented 2019
Executive Development - Deputy Chief Peter J. Pilafas, Executive Analysis of Community Risk Reduction - Battalion Chief Adam D. Howard, Executive Analysis of Fire Service Operations in Emergency Management - Assistant Chief Richard B. Llewellyn, and (not pictured) Executive Leadership - Lieutenant John M. Kolarik.
2017 Winners
Presented 2018
Assistant Chief Thomas Payne Middleton, Jr., Captain Mathew W. Samson, Chief Jayme Kahle, and Chief Cory Schmidt
2016 Winners
Presented 2017
Christopher Bower, Brad Hardin, Gary Baum, and Alan Long
2015 Winners
Presented 2016
Battalion Chief Joshua Goyet, Battalion Chief Ronald Powers, and Fire Chief Andrew Baxter. Not shown: Assistant Fire Chief Michael Patterson.
2014 Winners
Douglas Bloomquist, David C. Billings, Lauren A. Johnson, Christopher R. Addington
2013 Winners
Presented Sept. 2014
EFO Section Chair Pat Kelly, Deputy Chief Michael Allora, Fire Marshal Victor B. Williams, Division Chief Michael "Allen" Walls, Captain Frank W. Soto, Jr., EMS Division Chief Stuart E. Mills, and National Fire Academy Superintendent Dr. Denis Onieal. Not pictured: Battalion Chief Lauren Johnson.
2012 Winners
Presented Sept. 2013
BC Steven Brooker, BC Lauren Johnson, Administrator Scott Somers, ACF Michael Dell'Orfano. Not pictured: David Cohen, Christopher Watson
25th Anniversary Applied Research Legacy Winners
Presented Sept. 2013
FC Cecil "Buddy" Martinette Jr., DC Bernard Williams, Captain Brian Ashton, Kenneth Wood