Our Team

Nick Martin

Founder

Nick is presently a Division Chief with the City of Salisbury Fire Department in North Carolina. Previously he served as the Chief of Training for the City of Columbia, South Carolina and as a Lieutenant with the District of Columbia Fire Department. His career began in 1994 in his hometown of Swarthmore, PA. Since then, he has been privileged to be surrounded by great, motivated firefighters who have taught him everything he knows. Nick’s passion is for firefighting excellence, driven by our uncompromisable responsibility as firefighters for excellent service to our citizens.

Since 2010 Nick has been privileged to present at FDIC as a classroom presenter and hands-on instructor. Since 2004 he has had the opportunity to travel the country and share thoughts, learn from others, and see many different ways of firefighting operations.  Nick received a BS in Fire Science from the University of Maryland and a MS in Public Safety Management from Johns Hopkins University. He is also the president and founder of Combat Ready Fire Training whose mission is to share a duty-first “Combat Ready” mentality and real-world fireground proven skills and tactics that are accessible to all firefighters to help further their mission of saving lives and property. 

“With the help of some great friends and other talented instructors, I enjoy passing on the information, classroom and hands-on, that I have learned from my mentors and from good and bad experiences on the fireground. My goal is to pass on what was passed to me with the hopes that I can improve the skill and experiences of other firefighters. I am proud and honored to help organize this team of motivated, passionate firefighters.”