Vickie Pritchett For nearly a quarter century, Vickie Pritchett has been an advocate and leader in the fi re service. Her work serves as another example of all that should be celebrated during this Vickie Pritchett For nearly a quarter century, Vickie Pritchett has been an advocate and leader in the fi re service. Her work serves as another example of all that should be celebrated during this
2021 Women’s History Month. Like so many others, her fi re service career began at the local level and has steadily expanded to become national in scope. In 1997, she became involved with the Pleasant View Volunteer Fire Department (PVVFD) in Tennessee – and from 1998 until 2013 Vickie served on their Board of Directors. However, she also served as the Community Development Liaison for the Town of Pleasant View and the Executive Director of the Joint Economic and Community Development Board of Cheatham County (TN) at the same time she got involved with the PVVFD. The connection of Vickie and the PVVFD was tailor made for doing some really good things for the fi re and life safety pro fi le of the community. Her ability to bring fi re department o ffi cials, builders and developers, as well as elected o ffi cials together resulted in a zero square foot fi re sprinkler ordinance for the town in 2001 – and for the entire county in 2006. So, from then For nearly a quarter century, Vickie Pritchett has been an advocate and leader in the fire service. Her work serves as another example of all that should be celebrated during this 2021 Women’s History Month. Like so many others, her fire service career began at the local level and has steadily expanded to become national in scope. In 1997, she became involved with the Pleasant View Volunteer Fire Department (PVVFD) in Tennessee – and from 1998 until 2013 Vickie served on their board of directors. She also served as the Community Development Liaison for the Town of Pleasant View and the Executive Director of the Joint Economic and Community Development Board of Cheatham County (Tennessee) at the same time she got involved with the PVVFD. The connection of Vickie and the PVVFD was tailor-made for doing some really good things for the fire and life-safety profile of the community. Her ability to bring fire department officials, builders and developers, as well as elected officials together resulted in a zero square foot fire sprinkler ordinance for the town in 2001 and for the entire county in 2006. 2021 Women’s History Month. Like so many others, her fi re service career began at the local level and has steadily expanded to become national in scope. In 1997, she became involved with the Pleasant View Volunteer Fire Department (PVVFD) in Tennessee – and from 1998 until 2013 Vickie served on their Board of Directors. However, she also served as the Community Development Liaison for the Town of Pleasant View and the Executive Director of the Joint Economic and Community Development Board of Cheatham County (TN) at the same time she got involved with the PVVFD. The connection of Vickie and the PVVFD was tailor made for doing some really good things for the fi re and life safety pro fi le of the community. Her ability to bring fi re department o ffi cials, builders and developers, as well as elected o ffi cials together resulted in a zero square foot fi re sprinkler ordinance for the town in 2001 – and for the entire county in 2006. So, from then
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