Chief Barry B. Baker

Barry B. Baker is the Bureau Chief of the Bureau of Fire Standards and Training (Florida State Fire College), Division of State Fire Marshal. He has 44 years in the fire service, serving both in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and Fairfax, Virginia before moving to Florida in September 1997. The Florida State Fire College is located in Central Florida, near Ocala.

Prior to assuming the position of Bureau Chief at the Fire College, Chief Baker was the Fire Chief in Ormond Beach, Florida. He had served as the Assistant Chief in Fairfax, Virginia prior to his move to Florida. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Fire Administration from George Mason University and a Master of Science Degree in Administration from Central Michigan University. Chief Baker is a graduate of the National Fire Academy’s Executive Fire Officer Program and is a Chief Fire Officer Designee. He is an adjunct at the National Fire Academy in Emmitsburg, Maryland and taught at the Northern Virginia Community College, George Mason University and more recently the University of Florida.

Chief Baker is active in the International Association of Fire Chiefs, the Florida Fire Chiefs Association where he served as the 2007-08 President and formerly the Florida State Emergency Response Coordinator. He has served as the chairperson of the Washington, DC Metropolitan Senior Fire Operations Group and the Fairfax County Local Emergency Planning Committee. He was also a member of the Central Florida Prescribed Burn Council, Volusia County Fire Chiefs Association, Daytona Beach College Fire and Emergency Medical Services Advisory Council and a board member of the Florida Fire and Emergency Services Foundation and the Emergency Medical Foundation located in Daytona Beach. Chief Baker is on Florida’s Domestic Security Oversight Council and the Emergency Medical Services Council. Chief Baker was Florida’s Fire Chief of the Year in 2005.

As the former Florida State Emergency Response Coordinator, Chief Baker was responsible for the deployment of fire and rescue resources during disaster events. He has assisted a number of other states, since the 2004-05 hurricanes, with disaster planning and preparedness and is currently a technical expert and Go-Team member for the International Association of Fire Chiefs Association (IAFC) Intrastate Mutual Aid System (IMAS) and Vice-chair of the IAFC’s Emergency Management Committee.