12/20/07

                                                                                                                                                                     I am Gary Nystuen, Las Plumas campus supervisor. I lived in L.A. a few years for schooling, but other than that I've lived in Oroville my entire life. I graduated from Las Plumas High School, class of 1971. Before I graduated I joined the EI Medio Fire Department and that was where my career started in emergency medicine. In 1972, I started with the local ambulance service in Oroville and went through the second class of EMT Training at Butte Collage. In 1983, I went to Paramedic school at Daniel Freeman Hospital, which is the classroom training site for UCLA. I received training at Hollywood Presbyterian Hospital in Hollywood and Martin Luther King Hospital in Watts. Field training was with the Long Beach Fire Department in Long Beach, Ca. When I returned to Oroville after training, I worked for the local ambulance service for full time until 2005, I came here as a campus supervisor.

     I am still with the EI Medio Fire Department and currently hold the rank of Asst.   Fire Chief. Due to illness of our fire chief, I was made the Fire Chief for about one year in 2001. Now the Fire Chief is back and I returned to the rank of Asst. Fire Chief. I have received training on heavy rescue, swift water rescue, confined space rescue, over the edge rescue, explosive and bomb detection, ICS 400 major incident command, Safety Officer, Strike Team leader, Arson Bomb training, Arson Investigator and a member of the Butte County Arson Task Force, Arrest and Take down tactics, Weapons Training, and I am a sworn Peace Officer.