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Gary Provansal
Gary Provansal, Division Chief, Special Operations, San Bernardino County (CA) Fire Department, is responsible for counter-terrorism, Emergency Medical Services, Urban Search and Rescue, Hazardous Materials, and training. He serves on the Joint County Terrorism Oversight Committee for Riverside and San Bernardino Counties. He also administers FAA’s Western Region Air Crash Rescue Training School. He served on a Federal advisory group for counter-terrorism training for the national fire service. He represents San Bernardino County for the low-level nuclear waste program for DOE. He was the Director of the County Emergency Operations Center for the fire siege of 2003, staff of 500, evacuations of 155,000, and several hospitals and the Operations Chief for the EOC during the subsequent floods that killed 14 people. Earlier in his career he served as a fire department paramedic.
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