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Devon Wells

Devon Wells

1st Vice President, International Society of Fire Service Instructors


Devon Wells is the 1st Vice President of the International Society of Fire Service Instructors (ISFSI) and former Fire Chief of Hood River (OR) Fire & EMS. He is a 25 year veteran of the fire service. He is a graduate of the National Fire Academy’s Executive Fire Officer (EFO) program and presents nationally and writes for many publications on topics of safety, leadership, organizational philosophy, and rural firefighter operations. He sits on the NFPA 1700 committee on the Fundamentals of Fire Control Within a Structure Utilizing Fire Dynamics and manages the FaceBook page “Rural Fire Officer.”