Chief Anderson started his EMS career in 1996, receiving his initial EMT training through the Army National Guard. While completing his undergraduate work at the University of Wisconsin – Eau Claire, he started volunteering with the Barron Memorial Hospital EMS service in Barron, WI, and found a passion for pre-hospital care. Upon completing his bachelor’s degree, he attended the Madison Area Technical College/UW Hospital Paramedic program, graduating in 1999. He returned to northern Wisconsin, working at Lakeview Medical Center as a paramedic, before moving back to the Madison area and starting with FitchRona in January of 2001.

He worked as a career paramedic for the service until 2010, when he started working full-time at Madison Area Technical College in the EMS program while continuing to work part-time with Fitch-Rona. In 2016, he returned to FitchRona full-time as the Deputy Chief of Operations and was promoted to the full-time position of EMS Chief in 2018.

Chief Anderson retired from the Army Reserves in 2012 after serving 21 years in the National Guard and Reserves, with a deployment to southern Afghanistan.

In his free time, he enjoys hiking, camping, and volunteering with the Mid-Continent Railway Museum in North Freedom as a Brakeman and the Cambridge Volunteer Fire Department, where he lives with his wife, Lorie, and their dog and two cats.