Kastros & Brush
Anthony Kastros is a 31-year fire service veteran and battalion chief for Sacramento Metro (CA) Fire District. He is founder of TrainFirefighters.com, through which he teaches promotional, leadership, and command workshops throughout America.
He is the author of the DVD series Mastering Fireground Command: Calming the Chaos and Mastering Unified Command: From Hometown to Homeland and was the FDIC International 2013 keynote speaker. Chief Kastros deployed to New York on 9/11 with FEMA US&R CA Task Force 7 and spent four years on a Type 1 incident management team. He is blessed to be married to Cynthia Kastros and has two beautiful daughters, Sophia and Aubrey.
For more information about his workshops and speaking schedule, check out his website https://www.trainfirefighters.com/
Brian Brush got his start in the fire service in 1996 as a high school volunteer in Forestville, California. While attending Oklahoma State University School of Fire Protection Engineering, he worked as a training technician at Oklahoma State Fire Service Training and returned to California to work as a wildland firefighter as a seasonal in summers of 1998–2000 with Cal Fire. He began a career at West Metro Fire Rescue in Lakewood, Colorado, as a firefighter paramedic in 2002. In his 13 years at West Metro, he was promoted to company officer, worked in special operations companies, and served as a rescue specialist with FEMA US&R CO-TF. He returned to Oklahoma to be closer to family in 2015. He is currently the training chief at Midwest City Fire Department.
Brian holds a master’s degree in Fire and Emergency Management from Oklahoma State University, is a designated chief training officer through the Center for Public Safety Excellence, and is a graduate of the National Fire Academy Executive Fire Officer Program.
An author for Fire Engineering since 2009, an instructor at FDIC since 2011, and FDIC keynote speaker in 2023, Brian is a Fire Engineering editorial advisor and serves on the FDIC advisory board.
