Washington Fire Chiefs Association

David J. LaFave
Fire Chief
Cowlitz 2 Fire and Relief
Kelso, Washington

Chief Dave LaFave began their fire service job with Cowlitz 2 Fire & save as a volunteer in March 1983. He was employed fulltime as a firefighter in March 1986 and served in Operations for many of their career. In 1993, Dave ended up being marketed to Deputy Chief of Operations and continued because place until November 2000 when he was marketed to his present place as Fire Chief. His educational background includes an Associates amount of used Science in Fire Protection from Portland Community university, a graduate of nationwide Fire Academy Executive Fire Officer Program and Completion of this NIMS Performance Based Training program up to S-520, Advanced Incident Management for skills as a National Type 1 Incident Commander.

Chief LaFave has been active in the handling of a lot of different emergencies including floods, landslides, significant haz-mat activities, natural gas pipeline explosions, hurricanes and wildfires with projects in many states.

Chief LaFave is a part of many boards and committees like the Board when it comes to Washington Fire Chiefs Association, PNWCG Steering Committee, Cowlitz County advice Association Board of Directors and Washington State Fire Defense Committee. Also, Dave is certified as a Washington State Fire provider teacher and is a professional lead teacher for all ICS elements associated with the USFA All Hazard Incident control Program. He additionally provides presentations associated with leadership and developing tall Reliability businesses (among various other subjects for the US).

Chief LaFave is tangled up in neighborhood civic companies including Kelso Rotary while the Eagles.
Chief LaFave is married to Amy and has now three kids, Lacey, Jake and Ryan. He enjoys his motorcycle, hunting, army history and generally working together with hefty gear.