Fire Management Profiles

RODNEY REDINGER
Fire Training Specialist
2009 E Wasp Road
Hutchinson, KS  67501

Email: rodney2@ksu.edu
Phone: 620-665-0762

Rodney became a member of the Burrton Volunteer Fire Department in 1996, which marked the beginning of his career in fire. He began his degree in Fire Science from Hutchinson Community College in the fall semester of 1997. In the summer of 1998, he got a job in Monument, Co on the Pike Interagency Hotshot Crew. Monument is located about 20 miles north of Colorado Springs. His Hotshot Crew traveled all across the country fighting forest fires on many National Forests and other public lands including state, BLM, and Fish and Wildlife. He has fought fires in 21 different states. He received his Associates Degree in 1999. His Hotshot career ended in October of 2002, at which time he took the position of Fire Training Specialist for the Kansas Forest Service.

His job in fire training consists of developing current wildland fire classes as well as training fire departments in fire behavior and strategies and tactics used in wildland firefighting as well as fighting federal fires during the summer months. He is serving as the state training representative to the Rocky Mountain Area Training Committee, which consists of the states of Kansas, Colorado, Wyoming, South Dakota and Nebraska.