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Christopher Gould (he/him/his)

Battalion Chief/ Instructor
Hazard 3
Bradenton, Florida, United States

Chris Gould: Risk-Based Response To Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) Vehicles
Chris currently resides on the west central coast of Florida and is a Battalion Chief with Southern Manatee Fire Rescue where he spent over nine years as Manatee County's Hazardous Materials Response Team Leader. He started his career in 1990 as a firefighter with Southern Manatee Fire Rescue and moved into Special Operations in 1996 specializing in hazardous materials response. Chief Gould is a member of the Tampabay Emergency Planning Committee (LEPC) and is an active member of the Training Sub Committee. He is a Florida Certified: Hazardous Materials Technician, Arson Investigator, Instructor, Fire Inspector II, Paramedic, Firefighter and regularly instructs various hazardous materials, CNG and drone related classes throughout the country. He holds degrees in Business Management and Fire Science and is and regularly instructors at Florida’s Annual Hazardous Material Symposium and has presented Haz Mat programs at the CBRNe World Convergence, Washington Council of Governments, and TRANSCAER among many others. He is well known as a pioneer in regards to utilizing drones for sampling and plume tracking during large scale industrial hazardous materials incidents but his expertise lies mainly with CNG response where he is often called upon to assist various jurisdictions with CNG related incidents. In 2014 drawing from his experience with large commercial vehicle fires he identified life threatening hazards that CNG powered vehicles pose to responders where incorrect tactics can cause these vehicles to explode with a bomb like detonation that can send shrapnel up to three quarters of a mile away. Since then he has been traveling and teaching a responder orientated CNG program that allows responders to safely mitigate these incidents and then safely dis-arm the damaged and potentially explosive CNG cylinders that remain afterward.

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