Battalion Chief Ron Moore is the Training Officer of the McKinney (TX) Fire Department. He is responsible for development, delivery and evaluation of continuing education fire and rescue training programs for the 122-member fire department. McKinney FD protects a growing city of 110,000+ population situated north of the city of Dallas.

His 34 years of fire service experience have allowed him the opportunity to conduct thousands of advanced automobile rescue seminars and bus rescue training programs nationwide and throughout Canada. His presentations have taken him as far as Sweden, England, Germany, and The Netherlands. He is a most sought-after and highly recognized expert in his field.

Ron is the author of over 100 published articles in the Universityof Extrication series, featured each month in Firehouse magazine and is the moderator of the University of Extrication interactive section of the firehouse.com website. He is also the author of the most definitive training manual in this field, Vehicle Rescue and Extrication, 2nd edition, a text published by Mosby Co.