Brad comes to us with a distinguished career background, which includes 26 years in the fire service (24 with the City of Sacramento Fire Department and the previous two years with the then Elk Grove Fire Department, now Cosumnes Fire Department). Brad held the rank Engineer for 18 years at SFD and then concluded his career there with the last 6 years in the Division of Training as an Emergency Vehicle Operations Course Instructor for the Department.

He was a committed member of the department’s Apparatus Committee for 15 years and held the position as the committee’s Chairperson for the last 12 years right up to his retirement. Under his leadership, he and the 6-member committee were responsible for the development of new apparatus specifications, loose equipment specifications along with layout and outfitting of the loose equipment on new apparatus. During his time as Apparatus Chairperson the SFD standardized its fleet.