Rob Wiggins

Rob Wiggins is a career firefighter with the city of Barrie in Ontario, Canada. Rob has been a firefighter since 2007, starting in a paid-on-call role in his rural hometown, where he rose to the rank of captain. Rob started his career position with a medium-sized urban department on Oakville Fire Department’s Ladder Company 242. In 2019 Rob made the move to his local area career fire department and is currently assigned to Barrie Fire and Emergency Services Rescue 1.

Rob began instructing during his time with his paid-on-call fire department, and he has been passionate about hands-on, realistic training ever since. He has had the opportunity to instruct at multiple fire colleges and is currently an instructor at Georgian College in Barrie, Ontario.

In 2018 Rob joined Firestar Services, Inc., where he has had the pleasure of working with and learning from some of the best and most passionate firefighters in Canada and the United States. Rob has had the privilege of instructing at the Canadian High-Rise Conference and HROC in Pensacola, Florida, which was the highlight of his instructing career. Rob is passionate about the fire service, its culture, and its traditions and is a founding member of Ontario’s Hogtown FOOLS.