EMT & Fire Training Inc. - Instructors & Staff
Our EMT and Fire Instructors and staff have over 200 years of experience in EMS and Fire disciplines
Matt Usher has been involved in EMS since 1996 when he began as a volunteer Firefighter/EMT in California. Later he went to Paramedic School and began working full time on an ambulance in the San Francisco Bay Area. He promoted to Paramedic Supervisor while in California. He then followed his family to North Idaho and began working as a Paramedic For AMR in Spokane, Washington. He has been working as a Paramedic Preceptor in Spokane since 2006. In 2009, Usher began his career at the Northern Lakes Fire Department where he is a Firefighter/Paramedic. He began teaching EMS classes early in his career and has become one of the most sought after instructors and preceptors in the Inland Northwest.
Blaine has been an EMT Since 1992. He has also been a CPR Instructor since 1990 including affiliate faculty with the US Army.
Blaine has been a Firefighter since 1997, FF I and II, and a member of Idaho USAR TF-1.
He has worked in both large and medium urban settings, and specializes in Swiftwater and water rescue, USAR.
He is also a State instructor for USAR (all disciplines except swiftwater), EMT, FF I and II and is Currently employed CDAFD, EMS 28.
Gretchen has been in the fire service for 11 years and worked and volunteered for a variety fire departments and EMS services including the Moscow Volunteer Fire Department, Bonner County EMS, and Priest Lake Ambulance. Gretchen has been a NREMT paramedic for 9 years. Gretchen has taught EMS extensively throughout North Idaho to departments large and small. Gretchen's specialties include pediatrics, rural EMS, and EMS operations.
He is a proctor with NREMT for EMT-B and EMT-I students.
Special Interests:
Mass Casualty / Care response for Fire/EMS departments
Local Sober Roadways Mock DUI facilitator Moulage Technician
Credentials include Field training Officer in the large City of Spokane, Instructor for INHS (Spokane), and preceptor for Kootenai County Fire and Rescue.
He enjoys teaching street medicine along with book applications and he is not afraid to tell a story or two. Shane's ultimate goal is to train and teach great EMT's. His motto is keeping it basic.
Eric began in the fire service as a volunteer in 1999 and was also a resident firefighter EMT-I before accepting a position in a rural fire department in 2008. He worked for that department for 9 years, 6 of those years as a Lieutenant and still felt the need to work part time for both AMR Spokane and Medstar. He completed his paramedic certification in 2017 after accepting a position with Northern Lakes Fire Protection District as a firefighter/Medic.
Travis started his career in EMS as a volunteer EMT and eventually an Advanced EMT for a very rural ambulance agency covering almost 1200 sq. miles of rugged and isolated terrain.
Travis directs course and technology development as well as marketing. His NREMT preparation course has been used by more that 80,000 EMTs and Paramedics to prepare for the NREMT cognitive examination.
