Rich began his professional fire service career in his home town of Kamloops in central British Columbia in 1976 were he rose through the ranks to the position of Acting Chief Fire Prevention Officer. He accepted the job of Fire Chief in the neighbouring community of Merritt in 1991 to 1999. From Merritt Rich and his family moved to beautiful Vancouver Island where he took on the position of Chief Training Officer with the District of Langford. In 2003, he took over the Chief’s position with another neighbouring community - View Royal, where he retired from in 2005. Rich is an honorary life member of the Fire Prevention Officers’ Association of British Columbia.
Rich has first hand experence at conducting firefighter interviews and is now providing canidates with mock interviews/ interview coaching for entry level firefighter canidates.