Instructors

Daniel Casner

Biography : Fire Service background with current employment with CalOES/CSTI in the Haz-Mat Division as an Instructor II.

Kathryn Ann Dollarhide

Biography : Kathryn Ann Dollarhide RN, BSN, CEN, CEM® Kathy Dollarhide is the Director of the Dignity Health St. Mary Medical Center Disaster Resource Center Program. She is a Certified Emergency Manager via the International Association of Emergency Managers. She is a certified HAZMAT Instructor via CSTI teaches nationally and coordinates multiagency disaster drills in Long Beach, California. She has coordinated mass casualty multiagency drills and HAZMAT training for over 20 years. She has been instrumental in placing Stop the Bleed Tourniquet kits everywhere there is an AED in the City of Long Beach as a city wide initiative including training all agencies on tourniquets and Mass Casualty Incidents. She runs large scale drills at the airport, port and schools on active shooter and chemical releases including CHEMPACK trainings. Kathy has been a training nurse for the LA FBI Swat Team in advanced airway and active shooter drills and runs table top exercises for Federal and private agencies on Burn/Trauma Surge/MCI and HAZMAT. She is an instructor and drill coordinator working with the California Border Protection and has been instrumental in coordinating Rescue Task Forces with Long Beach Fire Department and Long Beach Police Department in large scale community drills. For the past 15 years she has coordinated multiagency drills at the Long Beach Airport, Port of Long Beach, Port of Los Angeles as well as in 2018 a large scale Terrorist attack at the Carnival Cruise Terminal in Long Beach. She coordinates active shooter drills at all of the local universities. Kathy has been an civilian instructor for the Combat Care Casualty Courses teaching the Trauma Nursing Core Course, Combat Casualty as well has been a training officer for the Defense Medical Readiness Training Institute (DMRTI) for the Department of Defense at Fort Sam Houston. Prior to St. Mary Medical Center she was the Emergency Preparedness Consultant at the Harbor-UCLA Medical Center Disaster Resource Center, the American Heart Association Community Training Coordinator and has been an ER nurse for 30 years. Her greatest accomplishments in life are her two children Kiely and Jeremy who are both in nursing school becoming ER/trauma nurses.

George Lane

Biography : George Lane is Hazmat instructor for Emergency Response Technology in Baton Rouge Louisiana. Lane's proposal for a hazmat course for the 2026 Hazardous Materials Emergency Response Workshop in Sacramento, "Case Study: Chemical Security to Protect Critical Infrastructure using FTIR (Fourier Transform Infrared) Spectroscopy", teaches the use of standoff chemical-specific detectors using FTIR to mitigate risk. Lane's previous hazmat course development and instruction was funded by the California Office of Emergency Services (OES) in 2018 to mitigate detection gaps in chemical security at deepwater ports in California using CBRNE detectors. Lane received his MS in Chemistry in 2012 from Tulane University as Air Quality SME for the Deepwater Horizon Study Group during the BP Oil Spill; received his MS in Chemistry in 2000 from Southern University in Baton Rouge as a NASA Fellow at the Stennis Space Center; and received his BS in Chemical engineering in 1970 from LSU in Baton Rouge. Lane has 30 years of cumulative experience in chemical security instruction education at the University of California at Berkeley, Tulane University in New Orleans, the University of Georgia at Griffin, Southern University and LSU in Baton Rouge, and Emergency Response Technology in Baton Rouge. A project in which Lane taught chemistry online to minimize risks from transportation of hazmat chemicals was the "Regional Fenceline Monitoring" (RFLM) project in Louisiana. RFLM was selected “Best Rail Yard Chemical Monitoring and Detection” and “Best Integration of Cameras, Sensors, and Communications for Rail Safety” hazmat course by Government Security News (GSN) in 2017 to provide protection with FTIR standoff chemical detection for rail safety; “Louisiana protects children with standoff chemical detection", GSN, 2017, pgs 1, 6-9, www.yumpu.com/en/document/read/56793041/government-security-news-january-2017-digital-edition

Daniel Talbot

Biography : Daniel Talbot served 33 years with Cal Fire in the Riverside Unit and retired as a Deputy Chief in November of 2018. From 1990 to 1996, Chief Talbot served as a Fire Captain/HM Specialist on the Cal Fire/Riverside County Hazardous Materials Response Team. During his tenure with the Team, Chief Talbot responded to more than 600 hazardous materials emergencies. Concurrently with his time on the Hazardous Materials Team, Chief Talbot was a member of the FIRESCOPE Hazardous Materials Specialist Group. During his tenure with the Hazardous Materials Specialist Group, Chief Talbot participated in the development of the position manuals for the Hazardous Materials Module of the Incident Command System. As a Chief Officer, Chief Talbot responded to several significant hazardous materials incidents, serving as the Incident Commander. Currently, Chief Talbot is an Adjunct Instructor at Moreno Valley College's School of Public Safety. Chief Daniel teaches Hazardous Materials Incident Commander, ICS 300, ICS 400, and the CSFM course, Incident Management of High-Rise Fires. In 2023, Chief Talbot participated in a multiagency group to develop the course Wide-Rise Fire Operations for the Riverside County Fire Chiefs' Association

Nick Vent

Biography : Nick Vent retired after 28yrs as a Supervising Environmental Health Specialist with the County of San Diego. He managed the County of San Diego’s Hazardous Incident Response Team (HIRT), which responds to all hazardous chemical releases in a jurisdiction of 4200 square miles with 18 cities. Mr. Vent is a nationally recognized and award winning, state certified hazardous materials response instructor with 40 plus years’ experience training and certifying fire, law enforcement, and environmental professionals who respond to chemical emergencies. He currently is conducting Hazmat classes around the country, US Territories and even Europe. He has taught various environmental health courses at colleges in California and around the country. He holds degrees in Environmental and Occupational Health and Chemistry. But most he loves to traveling the world and meeting people.