Fire Capt. Dan Munsey believes in standardizing procedures across all of County Fire’s divisions over the county’s 20,000 square miles. He also believes the standard to be met is the one in the department’s vision statement: to make County Fire a “premier provider of fire services in Southern California.”

Munsey, who specializes in career development in County Fire’s Training Division, was named County Fire’s Award of Excellence winner. He was recognized, along with Award of Excellence winners from each of the county government’s other departments, at the Board of Supervisors meeting on May 8.

Munsey was recognized for his work and leadership in the design and implementation of the Engineer’s and Captain’s Academies last year, and of the Firefighters’ Tower instruction and evaluation program this year, as well as for his service as an Incident Safety Officer on major fires, including the Sawtooth blaze last year, which burned 62,000 acres of desert and mountain lands.