When paramedics assist a patient with limited English proficiency, the communication barrier can be frustrating. Simultaneously, waiting for a translator, whether in-person or over-the-phone, requires patience in a critical situation. Recently, Garland Fire/EMS...
Six rookies graduated from the fire academy Thursday, May 19. The graduates, Randall Giard, Michael Connolly, Matthew Sizemore, Gabriel McCarthy, Matthew Eddington and Daniel Caldwell are currently attending EMT school. Additionally, for the second year in a row, the...
Members of the Garland Fire Department and Garland Fire Fighters Association Local 1293 are set to kick off the fire fighter’s annual Fill the Boot fundraising campaign to help the Muscular Dystrophy Association find urgently needed treatments and cures for muscular...
Mayor Douglas Athas and the Garland City Council presented a Special Recognition to firefighter Dalton Harris, Garland Fire Department Station #3, C-shift, during a council meeting in early February. Harris was recognized for going above and beyond his daily...
Photos by District 2 Council Member Anita Goebel Members of the Garland Firefighters Association recently distributed 130 winter coats to children at Northlake Elementary School. The school’s staff identified which students needed coats. Garland Firefighters...
In December 2012, Devon Colbert was a career firefighter for the Garland Fire Department and a volunteer firefighter in Rockwall. Just a few weeks before Christmas, a serious car crash left Devon paralyzed from the chest down. Doctors told him he would never walk or...
The Texas State Association of Fire Fighters recently honored Garland Fire Fighters Association IAFF Local #1293 member and Garland Fire Department’s Jerry G. Click with their prestigious Paul Kelly Humanitarian Award. He received the award July 29 at the Texas State...
The Garland Fire Department has achieved the 2015 Mission: Lifeline® EMS Gold Level Recognition Award from the American Heart Association. The award is based on care delivered in 2014, which highlighted Garland Fire Department’s EMS providers as the drivers of...
Garland Fire Captain David Gott recently earned Structural Collapse Level V certification as an Urban Search and Rescue (USAR) Specialist from the Texas A&M Engineering Extension Service (TEEX) and the Texas A&M University System. This is no small...
Firefighters will be out on the streets of Garland asking motorists to help “Fill the Boot” for the Muscular Dystrophy Association on three consecutive Fridays beginning April 17th and continuing on April 24th and May 1st. Every dollar that passing motorists can...
The Garland Firefighters Association needs the community’s assistance in helping fellow firefighter Randy Baker, the captain at GFD station 5. Baker has been a firefighter for 24 years. The goal of his colleagues, which include firefighters not only from GFD but from...