Richard Diede

firefighting robots Los Angeles City Fire Department

Richard Diede is a Captain II with the Los Angeles City Fire Department. He currently serves as the Wildland Fuel Management Unit Captain, overseeing heavy equipment operations and wildland hand crews. Diede’s qualifications include Division Supervisor, Strike Team Leader for Type 1 and Type 3 resources, ICT4, FIRB, HEQB and CRWB. He is a state wildland instructor and is qualified as an operator of hydraulic truck cranes, heavy equipment and firefighting robots. Diede also serves as a heavy equipment rigging specialist with FEMA California Task Force 1 and on the FIRESCOPE Ad Hoc Committee for the Heavy Equipment All Hazard Task Force.