Board Members

Robert Roper

Retired Ventura County Fire Chief & Retired Nevada State Forester

J. Lopez

Former vice-chair, and L.A. County Fire Assistant Chief, Forestry Division 

Pat Frost

Coast Region FSC Representative from Trinity County FSC

District manager for the Trinity County Resource Conservation District.

Kate Dargan Marquis

California State Fire Marshal, former

Napa County Fire Marshal, former

David Horne, Ph.D.

Southern California Region FSC Rep. Professor emeritus in marketing at the College of Business Administration, California State University Long Beach.

Laura S. Blaul

Assistant Chief and Fire Marshal, Former Orange County Fire Authority

Troy Whitman

Southern California Region Utility Rep. Senior fire management officer for Southern California Edison Co.

Jerry Davies

Strategic Media, PR, and Communications Consulting

David Shew

Former CAL FIRE

Staff Chief: Fire Plan/CAIRS/ SRA Fire Prevention Program

George (Ed) Mertens

Volunteer firefighter with the Higgins Fire Department in Grass Valley and a founding member of the Nevada County Fire Safe Council.

Pat Kidder

Former CFSC board chair and retired BLM state fire and aviation officer.

Steve Hawks

Staff Chief of Wildfire Planning and Engineering Division, CAL FIRE