Meet Our Adjunct Instructors: Natalie Duran

Natalie Duran began her career with the Miami-Dade Fire Rescue Department as a Fire Rescue Dispatcher in 1973. Natalie quickly moved up in rank to Supervisor in 1980 and in 1986 she was promoted to Fire Communications Officer, managing the operations of the communications center. She retired in 2012, after 36 years of service.

Since 2012, she has been an adjunct instructor for the APCO Institute, training telecommunicators across the country and in Baja California.

As the FL-APCO TERT Coordinator, she worked with other agencies in Florida in the deployment of first responders during Hurricane Irma 2017.