Event Description:
Career Chats: What Can I do with that Fire Science Degree?
Date: Monday, July 19, 2021
Time: 2:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m.
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John Bergeron
A
graduate of Greenfield Community College and the John Jay College of
Criminal Justice, City University of New York with a BS in Fire Science
and Administration in 1972. In 1985 he was one of five fire chiefs
awarded a fellowship to attend a three-week Executive Program for Senior
State and Local Officials at the Kennedy School of Government at
Harvard University.
Earned the Executive Fire Officer certification from the National Fire Academy.
Started
his long fire service career in Greenfield, located in western
Massachusetts, where he served as an auxiliary, call and career
firefighter advancing to the rank of deputy fire chief. Was later hired
as the fire chief in Lexington, a Boston suburb, where he served for 17
years, followed by four years as the fire chief in Wareham,
Massachusetts. Served for short periods as the interim fire chief in two
smaller Massachusetts communities. Elected as the president of both
the Massachusetts Institute of Fire Department Instructors and the Fire
Chiefs Association of Massachusetts. For 19 years chaired the
Massachusetts State Fire Mobilization Committee that planned task force
responses to major fires and disasters throughout the Commonwealth.
Taught
at the Massachusetts Firefighting Academy, various colleges, the
Emergency Management Institute and the National Fire Academy. A
consultant specializing in local fire department management studies and
the recruitment and selection of fire officers, especially fire chiefs,
for various fire departments in New England, the mid-west and some
southern states. Following his fire service retirement he joined the
Federal Emergency Management Agency as a part time on call disaster
recovery planner and worked in 28 states, Guam and Yap on various
emergencies and disasters.
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