San José Fire Department
Brad Guy has extensive experience in emergency services and sports instruction. Currently, Brad serves as a firefighter with the San José Fire Department since November 2018 and has also worked as a firefighter/paramedic at Ebbetts Pass Fire Department since March 2009. Prior to these roles, Brad was a public safety radio dispatcher for the San José Fire Department from January 2011 to 2018 and completed an internship as a firefighter/paramedic with the Sacramento Fire Department from 2007 to 2009. Earlier in their career, Brad played as a pitcher for the Pittsburgh Pirates from 1997 to 2003 and served as a professional baseball instructor at the Baseball Mentoring Program in Sacramento from 2005 to 2010. Brad holds multiple Associate of Arts degrees in paramedicine, aviation administration, and physical education, physics, math, and science, from institutions including American River College, California State University, Los Angeles, and Sacramento City College.
San José Fire Department
The San José Fire Department (SJFD) is committed to serving the community by protecting life, property, and the environment through prevention and response. San José was founded in 1777 and is located in the South San Francisco Bay area within Santa Clara County, CA. It is the 10th largest city in the US and the 3rd largest in California. SJFD serves the city-proper and other Santa Clara County areas with a total population that exceeds 1 million. Responding to approximately 74,000 calls for service each year (from 33 Fire Stations), SJFD is a high-volume, high-performance, full-service fire department. In terms of critical infrastructure, SJFD is the emergency service provider for a number of high-hazard occupancies, including an International Airport; 1 municipal airport; 7 major hospitals (including 3 trauma centers, and 7 emergency departments); the SAP Center, home of the NHL San Jose Sharks, (maximum occupancy 20,000); San José State University (the oldest public institution of higher education on the West Coast), student population of 31,906; three super regional malls; and 516 high-rise structures.