Paul Broyles
Boise, Idaho
2broylespg@gmail.com

Paul retired from the USDI-National Park Service after 36 years of  experience, the last eleven years as the Chief of Fire Operations at the  National Interagency Fire Center, Boise, Idaho. He has held positions  of National Fire Training and Safety Officer, Fire Management Officer  (FMO), Assistant FMO, Assistant Chief Ranger, Ranger/Law Enforcement  Officer, Fire Ecology Research Field Supervisor, Fire Guard Foreman and  Firefighter. Paul served fifteen years as a Single Resource and Division  Supervisor; eleven years as Helicopter/Helibase Manager and Air Support  Group Supervisor; ten years as Type 1 and Type 2 Operations Section  Chief; and nineteen years as a Type 1 and Type 2 Incident Commander. He  is currently NWCG-qualified as a Type 1 Incident Commander, Type 1  Operations Section Chief, and Liaison Officer, and serves as a Deputy  Incident Commander on a National Type 1 Incident Management Team.

He has forty-five years instructional and course development experience  for NWCG and EMI courses, in operations, aviation, safety, Command and  General Staff (S-420, O-305, among others), Incident Command, ICS-100  through -400, ICS-402 (ICS for Executives), L-480 (Incident Management  Leadership), and Fire Management Leadership.

He received a B.S. degree in Forest Management, with extended minor in Criminal Justice  Administration, from Northern Arizona University.

He attended the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center’s Police School #48, graduating top of the class.

Honors and Awards

• US Department of the Interior Honor Award for Superior Service
• Numerous NPS achievement and performance awards
• Sons of the American Revolution Fire Safety Award

Special Assignments

• DOI representative to the DHS NIMS/ICS Development Task Force, resulting from HSPD-5 in 2005
• DOI representative to the Board of Review for the Thirty Mile Fire fatalities investigation
• NPS representative on the National Multi-Agency Coordinating Group, NIFC
• For  7 years, chaired the national task group assigned to develop the  Interagency Fire Program Management Qualifications and Standards, one of  the recommendations stemming from the 1995 Federal Wildland Fire  Management Policy and Program Review
• Past vice-chair, and current member of the National Incident Commander/Area Commander Council (NWCG)
• Currently serve on the All-Hazards Incident Management Team Association’s Qualifications Committee
• NPS  representative to the NWCG’s Training Working Team (9 years), Safety  and Health Working Team (16 years, 4 as chair), and Incident Operations  Standards Working Team (11 years)
• Steering Committee member and instructor for the NWCG courses: Fire Management Leadership and Fire Management for Managers
• Served on the NPS Rocky Mountain Regional Special Events Team (law enforcement) for numerous assignments
•  Region 10 Representative/Board of Directors member for the All Hazards Incident Management Teams Association