Deputy Chief Billy Goldfeder is the 2007 recipient of the Everett E. Hudiburg Memorial Award for his efforts as an advocate for firefighter safety and fire service education. The award is presented by the International Fire Service Training Association.… DFW International Airport named Alan Black vice president of the Department of Public Safety, filling the position left vacant last month by Alvy Dodson, who retired. Black most recently served DFW as fire chief.… New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer appointed Floyd Madison to serve as that state's fire administrator. Madison previously was fire chief of the Rochester Fire Department. In June, Tom Murphy, a former Endicott fire chief, resigned as fire administrator only days after his appointment.… David Kapler is retiring from his fire chief post in Rochester, Minn., to take the fire chief's job in Alameda, Calf.… Bttn. Chief Richard F. Marose has been named chief of the Joliet (Ill.) Fire Department He will replace retiring chief Larry Mores.… Wayne Jinnant recently was named fire chief in Monroe County, Fla. He previously was a consultant, an adjunct professor at Indian River Community College in Fort Pierce and spent two years as an area coordinator for the Florida Division of Emergency Management.… Niles Ford, deputy fire chief in Fulton County, Ga., was named chief of Lincoln (Neb.) Fire and Rescue. He will start Oct. 1..… Melissa Speed has joined the Fire Corps staff as director. She will provide vision and direction for the program, implement program activities, and serve as the program spokesperson.