Bruce Evans, CFO, NRP, MPA

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Bruce Evans, CFO, NRP, MPA, is the fire chief for the Upper Pine River Fire Protection District, located outside Durango, Colorado. Chief Evans is a recent graduate of the Executive Leadership Program at the Naval Post Graduate School in 2023. He is an adjunct faculty member of the National Fire Academy in EMS, incident management, executive fire officer research evaluation and terrorism training programs. Bruce has been a course developer for many of the National Fire Academy curriculums and serves as a technical writer. He is the recipient of the prestigious 2010 James O. Page EMS Achievement Award. Chief Evans was awarded the NAEMT Presidential Leadership Award in 2014. Bruce is the liaison to the National Academy of Medicine preparedness committee and traumatic brain injury forum. Bruce was the president for the National Association of EMTs for 2021/2022. As NAEMT’s past president, Chief Evans has facilitated the development of a National EMS mentoring program, the EMS Political Academy and courses on ethics, safety, and mental health resilience. He has coauthored text on EMS management, crew resources management, and has written a text on quality improvement. Chief Evans has served on the Colorado Governors State EMS and Trauma Advisory Committee, the SW Regional Trauma Advisor Committee, LaPlata County’s Child Death Review Team, and Suicide Prevention Team. Bruce led his team at Upper Pine Fire during the pandemic to become one of only two fire-based EMS agencies in Colorado as 1A vaccinators and delivering monoclonal antibodies directly to people in their homes.