Director of The Evergreen Fire Protection District
Evergreen Fire Protection District
Evergreen, Colorado, USA
John Putt is a retired paramedic/firefighter after 35 years of service with the Denver Paramedic Division, San Francisco Fire Department and North Washington Fire Department. His professional background includes the design and education of Complex Emergency Response training programs for Fire/Law/EMS/Hospital agencies funded by the Colorado Dept. of Public Health and Environment- Office of Emergency Preparedness and Response (CDPHE-OEPR). In 2010 John’s company was selected by CDPHE to provide statewide training on the fundamentals of Mass Casualty Incident Management, Coordinated Response to Active Shooter Incidents and Hospital Evacuation. John was a Subject Matter Expert for the Colorado Department of Emergency Management - Emergency Operations Center during the 2020 COVID pandemic crisis. John assembled a team to design and built a temporary emergency communications center to dispatch and coordinate 100 ambulances around the state for large volume COVID patient surge. For 10 years John volunteered as the Fire and EMS Emergency Support Function (ESF) liaison for the Jefferson County Emergency Operations Center (EOC). As a resident of Evergreen, Colorado John also volunteered for 15 years with the Alpine Rescue Team, a mountain search and rescue group. Currently, John is a Director of The Evergreen Fire Protection District, John works with the Board of Directors and the Fire Chief to ensure the firefighter are fully supported and trained to respond to and manage all emergency calls. As a pilot project, John is helping to design a fire district-wide emergency planning, preparedness, and response program within the Evergreen Fire Protection District for the education of individual neighborhoods and residents. John is also the Chair and Co-founder of the Evergreen Rotary Wildfire Ready - Safety Committee, which is dedicated to improving wildfire evacuation planning, training, and roadside mitigation for all our mountain communities. Additionally, the group is working with the Colorado Division of Fire Prevention and Control and US Forest Service to install an early warning camera system to detect wildfires immediately. These cameras will have a public view so citizen can see the current conditions.
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Monday, February 27, 2023
3:15 PM – 5:00 PM EST