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PFD has achieved many firsts over the last few years. One shining example was the completion of our first Citizens’ Fire Academy (CFA) in 2023. The CFA was a rousing success that is attributed to the effort of our community outreach team, training department, and on-duty personnel. PFD members from every facet of our organization were eager to teach students about their respective areas of expertise. This provides a grass-roots knowledge of all aspects of our growing PFD organization and the wide array of services we provide for our great community. Our CFA Alumni have now partnered with the long- standing PFD participants to rebrand with a new name and mission, Pearland Citizens Fire Association (PCFA). This auxiliary combining CFA alumni and former volunteer firefighters will serve as a support group for all facets related to PFD. This is very similar to the Pearland Police Department’s Citizens’ Police Academy Alumni who have effectively supported PPD and our community for many years. In partnership with our brothers and sisters in blue, PFD and PPD partnered to host our second annual 9-11 Remembrance Event. This event was attended by many from within and around our community and paid respect to those tragically lost to cowardly acts on September 11, 2001. We are passionate in providing an annual reminder for everyone to “Never Forget 9-11”. I continue to be honored and proud to serve as Fire Chief for the City of Pearland. Our command staff is passionate in our mission to constantly identify new ways to improve our services to our community and make the job safer for those on our team. Collectively, PFD continues to strive to be the organization that other agencies want to emulate. This is becoming evident due to the hard work of every member of our PFD family. We deploy blue-collar work ethic along with white-collar acuity to provide our community with a vast package of emergency service excellence. With this winner’s mindset, we continue to maintain our simple philosophy that contains a much deeper meaning, “KNOW your job, DO your job, and HAVE FUN at your job”. #PardonOurDust
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