Paul Wilders

Paul Wilders is a 37-year veteran of the fire service and currently the assistant chief instructor of the Nassau County, NY, Fire Service Academy. He is the former chief of the North Merrick, NY, Fire Department and a senior member of that department's training committee. Wilders is an instructor of national curriculum for the International Organization for Standardization and an advocate for the National Fallen Firefighters Foundation's Courage to Be Safe program.