Virginia Fire + Rescue Conference 2016

Dan Jones
Retired



Dan entered the fire service in February 1974 and retired as fire chief in 2015. He served for over 16 years in the Pinellas Park (FL) Fire Department before relocating to Chapel Hill (NC) in 1990 to become the fire chief. Upon his retirement, Jones was the longest serving municipal fire chief in the State of North Carolina. Chief Jones has served on a variety of committees, councils and boards at the local, state and national levels, most notable as Editor-in-Chief of National Fire & Rescue Magazine, Past-President for the International Society of Fire Service Instructors, and the National Advisory Council of Fire 20/20, a group advocating for diversity in the fire service. He is a past member of the National Board on Fire Service Professional Qualifications Committee and served on the NFPA Standards 1041, Instructor Qualifications Committee. He was the Florida Fire Instructor of the Year in 1981 and the American Fire Sprinkler Association’s Fire Service Person of the Year in 1997. In 2000 he was awarded the International Fire Chiefs Association President’s Award. Jones also received the Order of the Long Leaf Pine, the highest civilian honor awarded by the Governor of North Carolina. Dan has written numerous articles for trade journals and is a co-author of the fire service textbook Managing People (pub. 1987). He is currently a special on-air commentator for CNN Headline News Network on breaking fire and rescue stories. He is a guest lecturer at the University of North Carolina and has taught in twenty-nine states, Canada, England, Germany, Botswana and Scotland. He attended St. Petersburg (FL) College, Alamance Community College, the National Fire Academy, the National Staff and Command program at the University of Maryland, and the Institute of Government at the University of North Carolina. He completed the Public Executives Leadership Academy at UNC-IOG in 2007.

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