Training America's First Due Delivering On-Site, Customized Training and Consulting to Meet Your Organization’s Needs!
Each of our team members are passionate about their careers and strive to meet your organization’s needs through customized and high-level training.
03/23/2026
Training for bad days starts with great instructors.
Monday Meet the Instructor: Phil McLean
Firehouse Facts:
📍 Hometown: Richfield, Ohio
🚨 Current Role: Fire Instructor and with BDT. owner of Sensible Products
🧑🚒 Years of Fire/HazMat Experience: 45 years of service at Richfield Fire and served on the Ohio Fire Sub committee for 20 years
Rapid Fire Questions:
🏂 Off-duty hobbies: 3 antique fire trucks, 1922 model T, 1940 open Cab, 1972 John Bean Pumper and vintage VW BUGS and spending time with his new granddaughter, Ava Marie.
03/16/2026
Training for bad days starts with great instructors.
Monday Meet the Instructor: Joe Kratochvil
Firehouse Facts:
📍 Hometown: From East Meadow, NY, now Rixeyville, VA
🚒 Specialty: Hazardous Materials, and effectively breaking stuff
🚨 Current Role: Retired Lieutenant Fairfax Fire, presently Vice President of the Culpeper County Vol. Fire Department Culpeper, VA
🧑🚒 Years of Fire/HazMat Experience: 45 years
🛠️ Favorite tool: Halligan Bar
What a turnout!!! Thank you Scioto Ema, Ohio Valley Firefighters Association and the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio for the opportunity to provide this training! We appreciate you all!!
What are 70 Scioto County first responders doing today? Learning how to manage incidents involving Lithium-Ion batteries. These batteries are very common and found in many household products and require special tactics when damaged or involved in a fire.
03/06/2026
Thank You to our long time friend, Shelby County Emergency Management Agency, Ohio for allowing us the opportunity to deliver our new course, Modern Day Decon!!
🚒 This past Saturday, responders from Shelby, Miami, Logan, and Allen counties participated in Modern Day DECON training, taught by Bad Day Training.
The course strengthened local hazardous materials planning by teaching advanced decontamination techniques and decision-making tools, ensuring teams are ready to handle a wide range of HazMat incidents.
Sponsored by the Shelby County Local Emergency Planning Committee (LEPC).
A big thank you to the participants and instructors for their efforts in strengthening our HazMat response skills. 👏
03/03/2026
Training for bad days starts with great instructors.
Monday Meet the Instructor: Brian Harting
Firehouse Facts:
📍 Hometown: Chagrin Falls, OH
🚒 Specialty: Technical Rescue Training/Urban Search and Rescue
🚨 Current Role: Fire Chief Bedford Division of Fire. Rescue Squad Officer for Ohio Task Force 1 FEMA USAR.
🧑🚒 Years of Fire/HazMat Experience: 32 years
🛠️ Favorite tool: The Pig Forcible Entry Tool and Arizona Vortex
Rapid Fire Questions:
🍬 Favorite candy: Snickers or Reese Cups
🐶 Pets: English Bulldog, Dozer
🏂 Off-duty hobby: Backcountry Snowboarding/Slay Pow 🏂
🥯 Go-to post-shift meal: Veggie omelet with habanero hot sauce
03/03/2026
The 2026 Ohio PUCO Hazmat Training Grant is Now Open!! Over the years, many of our clients have received free Hazmat and Confined Space training through this generous reimbursement grant. There is no cost share to the local department(s)!
Contact us at info@BadDayTraining.com with any questions. Thank You to the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio
☢️FUNDING OPPORTUNITY: The PUCO hazardous materials training grants application is now open!
These grants help teach local public safety and emergency personnel how to respond to hazmat spills or releases. Last year, the PUCO awarded $800,000 to 30 applicants.
Applications are open until April 30 - link in comments!
02/24/2026
Thank You Richfield Fire Department, Summit County Ohio!! It’s great to teach for our local fire department. Such a dedicated group!!
02/23/2026
Training for bad days starts with great instructors.
Monday Meet the Instructor: Steve Groves
Firehouse Facts:
📍 Hometown: Stow, Ohio
🚒 Specialty: HazMat - Founding Member of the Summit County HazMat Team
🚨 Current Role: Fire Inspector Valley Fire District
🧑🚒 Years of Fire/HazMat Experience: 44 years
🛠️ Favorite tool: Chlorine B Kit
Rapid Fire Questions:
🍬 Favorite candy: Reese cup
🐶 Pets: Sadie - Corgi mix
🏂 Off-duty hobby: pistol, rifle and trap shooting
🥯 Go-to post-shift meal: omelet
02/16/2026
Training for bad days starts with great instructors.
Monday Meet the Instructor: Jesse Phan
Firehouse Facts:
📍 Hometown: Chagrin Falls
🚒 Specialty: Emergency Medical Training
🚨 Current Role: Firefighter at Lakewood and Captain at Chagrin Falls. Certified Flight Paramedic
🧑🚒 Years of Fire/HazMat Experience: 15 years
🛠️ Favorite tool: The Halligan!
Rapid Fire Questions:
🍬 Favorite candy: Kit-Kat
🐶 Pets: 2 golden retrievers; Finn and Lily
🏂 Off-duty hobby: Snowboarding
🥯 Go-to post-shift meal: Bagel sandwich on an everything bagel 👀
Comment with your favorite post-shift meal! 🍔
02/14/2026
We appreciate Roundhead Fire having our team deliver the Solar Emergencies course and enjoyed collaborating with you and your local solar energy company!!
02/13/2026
Our Website has a brand new look! Please check it out!!
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Training America’s First Due!
Bad Day Training & Consulting specializes in hazardous materials emergency response, firefighting, incident command, emergency management, confined space, and emergency medical services. Additional consulting services include emergency response planning and business continuity planning for businesses of all sizes.
Our mission is to ensure our clients are prepared to face the challenges associated with those Bad Day emergencies.
Goal
Bad Day Training and Consulting strives to deliver cutting-edge training and consulting services to meet your organization’s needs. Our ultimate goal is to deliver high-level training to ensure your members are proactively prepared for those Bad Day incidents.
Team
Our team members share a combine total of just over 350 years experience in the fields of firefighting, hazardous materials response, emergency management, law enforcement and private industry emergency response teams.
Our instructors come from a diverse background, including experience in both the public and private sector. Furthermore, many of our instructors currently deliver various training programs across the country and have served as incident commanders at numerous large-scale incidents.
Each of our team members are passionate about their careers and strive to meet your organization’s needs through customized and high-level training.
Clients
From first responders to private firms, we have had the pleasure of organizing and delivering training to meet our clients needs. We have also worked with several businesses in an effort to streamline their emergency preparedness programs.
