Forrest retired in 2002 as the Director of
the Department of Emergency Services for
Salem County. He was a charter member of NJ-NENA and served as South Region
Vice-President and as Chapter President.
Forrest was appointed by Governor Whitman to serve as a member of the New Jersey
9-1-1 Commission from 1999-2002.
He was guest speaker at the 1999 National Radiological Emergency Preparedness
Conference and the Harvard School of Public Health on Emergency Preparedness in
1998.
He is a Certified FEMA Evaluator for graded exercises in the nuclear industry.