Michael Wilbur has been a career firefighter with the New York City Fire Department for 21 years, and is also a volunteer firefighter.

In FDNY, Mike was assigned to Ladder Company 56 for 15 years 8 as an apparatus operator and in 1995 was promoted to the rank of Lt. and is presently assigned to Ladder Company 27 in the Bronx.

Tom Shand
Vehicle Ops Contributor
Tom Shand has been a volunteer firefighter with departments in Maryland, Pennsylvania and New York for the past 32 years. He is currently a member of the Newton Abbott Fire Company in the Town of Hamburg, New York and is a Senior Instructor At the Onondaga County Community College Public Safety Center in Syracuse, New York.

He has worked as a field engineer for the Insurance Services Office of New York, and has worked for the past twenty one years in the fire apparatus industry. He is currently working at the Hamburg Facility of American LaFrance as a Sales Engineer and is a contributing editor for Fire Apparatus Journal and Firehouse Magazine.

Tom and Mike conduct numerous surveys of fire departments and conduct training classes throughout the country in the areas of fire apparatus design and fire department operations.