Rich Dzierwa joined Firehouse Magazine after four tenures with other publications. Most recently, he was editor-in-chief of Consumers Digest/ConsumersDigest.com. Prior to that, Dzierwa held the same position at trade magazine Cutting Tool Engineering. For three years before that, he served as the consumer products reporter for BridgeNews, a financial wire service. Dzierwa began his publishing career with an 11-year tenure at Appliance magazine, where he rose to managing editor after serving in other roles, including the coordinator of the technically oriented Appliance Engineer section. He earned a bachelor's degree in English from Columbia College Chicago.