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Brian Beechner

Battalion Chief

Instructor · National Center for Integrated Emergency Response

Personal Profile

Brian Beechner has spent 35 years in the fire service. He has spent most of his 24 years with Orange County in the Special Operations Section as a firefighter, Training Lieutenant and Battalion Chief. He spent two years as the aide to the Fire Chief, where he wrote department policy, conducted industry research, and drafted presentations. Brian has a passion for teaching and trained all ranks of firefighters from new recruits to Battalion Chiefs.

Brian was selected for the fellowship program with the Joint Counterterrorism Assessment Team at the National Counterterrorism Center. During his fellowship, he worked alongside NCTC, DHS and FBI analysts to produce relevant federally coordinated threat information on significant international terrorism or terrorism-related events that had potential to impact the United States.

Brian has a Master's in Public Administration with a concentration in Disaster Management. He has presented on the topics of Counterterrorism and responses to technical rescue incidents throughout the country and is a member of the NFPA 2500 committee Standard for Operations and Training for Technical Search and Rescue Incidents and Life Safety Rope and Equipment for Emergency Services.
Brian Beechner

Experience

National Center for Integrated Emergency Response
Oviedo, Florida, 2024 - Current
Instructor
Brian is involved with classroom training, simulation hands-on training and train-the-trainer. He provides expert insight from his background in Disaster Management and Counterterrorism.
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Orange County Fire Rescue
Orlando, FL, 2003 - Current
Battalion Chief
In his 24 years with Orange County, Brian served as firefighter, Training Lieutenant and now Battalion Chief. He served as Aide to the Fire Chief for two years, focusing on special projects, including acting as lead for the 2017 Metropolitan Fire Chiefs Conference. He has managed a team of over 200 Special Operations Technicians and developed curriculum in professional development.
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Valencia Community College
Orlando, FL, 2004 - 2016
Instructor
Brian served as an instructor for Vehicle Machinery Rescue, Rope Rescue, Florida State Minimum Standards and other various fire training classes.
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National Counterterrorism Center
McLean, VA, 2019 - 2020
Joint Counterterrorism Assessment Team Fellow
Brian worked with NCTC, Department of Homeland Security (DHS), and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) intelligence analysts to produce relevant federally-coordinated threat information. Additionally, he coordinated terrorism-related information to state, local, tribal, territorial and private sector (SLTTP) entities and provided recommendations to the Intelligence Community (IC). He maintained a constant situational awareness on relevant terrorism, homeland security and WMD issues and conducted outreach to partner to promote whole-of-government awareness and roles in counterterrorism.
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“Good leaders are always teachable.”

Knowledge & Skills

Fire, EMS, and Emergency Response
★ ★ ★ ★ ★
35 years Fire, EMS and Emergency Response experience as a Firefighter, special operations technician, company and chief officer.
Incident Management
★ ★ ★ ★ ★
Expertise in NIMS, ICS and Unified Command. Qualified as FEMA Task Force Leader and Search and Planning Manager. Experienced in delivering incident management training programs.
Training and Instruction
★ ★ ★ ★ ★
Over 20 years experience developing and delivering training programs at both the local and national level. Conducted counterterrorism training and outreach to SLTT agencies.
Fire and Emergency Management
★ ★ ★ ★ ★
Chief Officer with senior management experience both administratively and operationally.
Disaster Exercises (HSEEP)
★ ★ ★ ★ ★
Evaluated and participated in full scale exercises and workshops.

Specialities

  • NIMS/ICS
  • Disaster Management
  • Counterterrorism
  • Professional Speaker
  • Logistics
  • Intelligence Community
  • Course Development
  • Budgets
  • WMD Issues
  • Instructor III (FL)
  • Urban Search and Rescue

Accomplishments

NIMS Certifications

ICS 100, 200, 300, 400, 700, 800.

National Domestic Preparedness Consortium (NDPC)

Instructor Certificate

PER 353, PER 352

Orange County Fire Rescue

2016 - Excellence in Training Award. 2016 - Administrative Excellence Award. 2007 - Meritorious Service Award. 2007 - Distinguished Service Award.

New York State

1997 - EMS Lifesaving Award.

Deployments

Surfside building collapse.

Conferences

Fire Rescue International Conference, August 2019

Presented on Joint Counterterrorism Assessment Team

Fire Rescue East Conference, January 2020, January 2022

Joint Counterterrorism Assessment Team

New York State Technical Rescue Conference, 2015, 2016, 2018

Presented on Vehicle Extrication

Metro Atlanta Technical Rescue Conference, October 2015

Instructor for Large Vehicle Extrication


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