Jesse Quinalty is a master instructor and the owner of Red Helmet Training in Southern California, which houses four classrooms and a command training center. He specializes in company officer training as well as tabletop and digital fire simulations. Quinalty is a captain with the San Bernardino County Fire Department working in Battalion 10 and was the operations and training captain at his previous department. He has been the incident commander for multiple structure fires and other incidents, including city-wide flooding during two monsoons. He was involved in a burnover during the Sawtooth Incident and credited with saving the engine crew with his command presence.