EMT Instructor Named one of The Tops in the Country

KILGORE — Kilgore College instructor Eddie Bernaldez has been named as one of the top fire instructors in the nation by the website FireScience.org. Bernaldez began working at Kilgore College in 1996 and has served as the Emergency Medical Technology program director and instructor at KC-Longview since 2000.

Firescience.org recently set out to find educators in fire science, fire responder care, and forestry who had been recognized for excellence in the classroom, on campus and in the community. Bernaldez was selected partly because he has hundreds of successful former students who are now employed as EMTs and firefighters-mostly with Champion EMS and the Longview Fire Department, a testament to his dedication to comprehensive first responder training.