Justin Lorenzen

Justin “J Lo” Lorenzen is married to his high school sweetheart, Raquel, going on 19 years and has two boys, Noah 15yo and Braxton 12yo. He started in fire service in 2005 at a rural combination department about 30 miles south of the metro and was there for 3 years before getting hired at OKCFD. He’s currently a Lt./Paramedic on the south side of Oklahoma City at station 7/C, “Capitol Hill Creepers”, where he drives Battalion 603. 

Justin served as a training officer for 3 years in OKCFD’s training division. He’s currently the president for OKC’s local F.O.O.L.S chapter, Mid-America F.O.O.L.S OKC Metro, as well as a small part of Firefighter Rescue Survey (Internal Survey Implementation). He developed and implemented the OKCFD Grabs Survey that went live in 2020 allowing the Oklahoma City fire department to track their civilian rescues and contribute to Firefighter Rescue Survey. Justin had an article published in Fire Engineering Magazine titled The Oklahoma City Story: Tracking Grabs with Firefighter Rescue Survey – Fire Engineering: Firefighter Training and Fire Service News, Rescue in 2021 as well as an article in the upcoming “Book Of Search” titled “Recording Our Rescues To Drive Our Mission”.

Throughout his career Justin has taught at several conferences and training events both locally and nationally. Justin has been a Guest on The Weekly Scrap, Fire Nuggets Podcast, Crew 1st Culture Podcast, Journeyman Fire Podcast, H&H Undisclosed Agents Podcast and Relentless Rejects Podcast. Justin also serves as a co-host on the FireNuggets Podcast. Justin is a member of the Firefighter Rescue Survey team and has assisted multiple other departments in developing their own internal rescue tracking system and contributing to the national rescue survey. His passion is Search and all things training and most importantly leaving the job better than he found it! 

Justin Lorenzen's Courses

  • The OKC Story: Tracking Grabs with Firefighter Rescue Survey

    Traditionally, the fire service only receives statistics on civilian fire fatalities but what about the ones we save, the ones for whom we make a difference?  Why are we not sharing these outcomes?

  • Search Live Fire

    Hands-on fundamentals of search size-up, search methods, victim drags and victim removal. All these aspects are then brought together with evolutions and scenarios under live smoke and/or live fire. 

  • The Priority Search: Occupying the inside because that’s our job!

    This class discusses the in and outs of one of the most important tactics on the fire ground. It will cover the Why, What, Where and How of search, from reading structures to search techniques and victim removal. The information and data from this class is based on real rescues made by actual firefighters and recorded on www.firefighterrescuesurvey.com