San Bernardino County Fire Chief Mark Hartwig announced the appointment of lonie Wallace as Deputy Fire Marshal for the San Bernardino County Fire Department, Office of the Fire Marshal.
In 1991, Wallace began her career with San Bernardino County Department of Environmental Health as an unpaid intern from California State University, San Bernardino. She later worked for the Solid Waste Department for 6 months. In June of 1992, Wallace was hired as a Hazardous Materials Specialist in the Household Hazardous Waste Program (HHW).
She was later promoted to Supervising Hazardous Materials Specialist in August 2001. In April of 2011, she was asked to work in the capacity of Interim Deputy Fire Marshal.
Originally from Jamaica, Wallace was one of the first five females that were accepted to the West Indies School of Public Health Training Program for Public Health Inspectors (Environmental Health Specialists). Wallace earned certificates from the West Indies School of Public Health, the University of the West Indies and the Royal Society of Health, England.
Additionally, Wallace holds a Bachelor of Science degree from California State University, San Bernardino, and a certificate in Hazardous Materials Management from the University of California, Riverside Extension.
Wallace is a certified CSTI instructor, an authorized OSHA instructor for 10 and 30 hour general industry safety classes, and a certified HAZWOPER instructor through the Hazardous Materials Training and Research Institute Consortium of Community Colleges.
Wallace’s love for teaching began with a two-year stint at the primary school that she attended. As a Hazardous Materials Specialist in the HHW program, she developed a training program that is nationally recognized, and she co-authored a text that is used nationally in the training of HHW Technicians.
Wallace continues to teach Hazardous Materials Management, chemistry for the non-chemist, and Train the Trainer classes at the state HHW conferences, North America Hazardous Materials Management Association (NAHMMA) and Solid Waste Association of North America conferences.
During her leadership at HHW, the program won several state and national awards, including Best Rural HHW Program and Program Excellence. Out of all of her awards, her favorite is the one from the National Association of Counties, Best in the Environmental category for a paint recycling project that continues to result in cost savings to the HHW program. This program was her project as a student at the county’s Management and Leadership Academy.
Wallace keeps busy serving on the Board of Directors of NAHMMA, as Environmental Health Science Department Advisory Committee member at California State University and at North Orange County Community College where she is an adjunct instructor.
Congratulation my dearest sister all your hard work has paid off, i am proud of you,
Ma God continue to Bless and keep you in all that you endevour to do.
Love you loads
Gloria xx
Well done miss Wallace . Continue to do well .
I continue to be amazed by the accomplishments of my family. As one of the older member of our family you have set a mark of us the younger generations to follow. God’s light continue to brighten your paths Aunty. Congratulations. Love you
So proud to call you my aunt… You are a star and a role model in the family… Continue to do what you love, pray God’s richest blessings upon you… CONGRATULATIONS AUNTY…. LOVE YOU ALWAYS
I’m so proud to call you my aunt, you are a star and a role model in our family.. Well done, continue doing what you love…. Pray God’s richest blessings upon you.. CONGRATULATIONS AUNTY LOVE YOU ALWAYS
As a private citizen calling a public employee about an issue that had to do with taxes, I have to be honest and say I did not expect much of a response. Ms. Wallace got back to me immediately, was very knowledgeable about many different issues and it renewed my faith that we have some very competent people in County government.