Houston Fire Department

My mentor when I was doing my fellowship training was one of the few pediatric medical directors at that time in the United States.

and the Houston Fire Department.

And he invited me to come do some lectures for the fire department.

And as I taught EMS clinicians about pediatric care, I realized that they want to do a great job taking care of their littlest patients, but they also were faced with the challenge of not being able to encounter a lot of children since they comprise a small subset of all the patients that they take care of in that pre-hospital setting.

Keith Roy Maynard's remains would not be identified until 2003.

By that time, Kevin, encouraged by Houston firefighters he'd met at the annual Firefighter Memorial in Colorado Springs, had passed the tests to join the Houston Fire Department.

He's marking his 23rd anniversary with the department this month.

I think as a firefighter, it's...

Our area collectively probably all burns about the same amount.

4,000 men and women work for Houston Fire Department.

And then probably another, I'm going to say at least 4,000 to 5,000 work in the county in the existing county departments in the Houston region.

So, you know, you got whatever, however many.

All you guys out there fucking hate me for this shit, but I don't care.

You can kiss my ass on it.

If Houston Fire Department can have that on 100 plus fucking apparatus and fight statistically one of the highest fire volume fire departments in the fucking world, and that's what they do, and it works, it works, okay? That's what we were brought up doing.

I pulled triple loads for years and years and years.

The event is free to the public again starting at 10.

Meanwhile, the Houston Fire Department at Fire Station 8 are ringing bells this hour to commemorate the exact times when the planes hit the Twin Towers in New York 25 years ago.

There will also be moments of silence to remember what happened.

Meanwhile, on September 1st of this year, Houston ISD closed Grimes Park in order to make room for a new career and technical education center.

I've had a job for the last 15 years because of that notion.

However, when you go from having a roster of, say, like in my old department, we had 80 part-timers on that roster, to now you're trying to go to 30 or 40 all full-timers, Having 80 part-timers that are all from Houston Fire Department, very well-known, high caliber, tactically proficient, 20, 30 years on the job guys.

So now you're literally hiring somebody straight out of fire Academy that graduated fire Academy last month to try to replace say a two for one.

Cause that's about kind of what the ratio is to Houston guys with more than 21 years or more than 20 years experience between the two or both of them.