Jesse Quinalty is the owner of Red Helmet Training Inc. and SLAB SAVERS.com, both of which specialize in table-top and digital fire simulations. He is a captain with the San Bernardino County Fire Department and was the operations and training captain at his previous department. He is a master instructor and a certified company officer. Quinalty has been the incident commander for multiple structure fires and other incidents, including city-wide flooding during two monsoon storms. He was involved in a burnover during the Sawtooth Incident and is credited with saving the engine crew with his command presence. Quinalty has presented on strategy and tactics, crew resource management, and cultural safety at workshops and conferences.