Bryan Firefighters Association

08/15/2026

The 4th annual dove season dust off was a huge success. Thank you to all of the shooters for coming out and a HUGE shoutout to our sponsors without them this great event couldn’t happen. Ike’s small engine repair, Jersey Mikes, Signature care, and Tonkaway ranch!! Also thank you Wilson Caddel for the awesome trophies!! We look forward to having everyone out next year. See you at the golf tournament!!

06/23/2026

Your Bryan Firefighters are honored to stand with Odessa Firefighters to honor Lt. Huerta

06/15/2026

Our hearts go out to our fire family in Odessa. Please keep everyone affected in your thoughts and prayers.

Odessa Fire Rescue Mourns the Loss of Firefighter Isai Huerta

ODESSA, Texas — Odessa Fire Rescue is mourning the tragic loss of one of its own following a structure fire on Sunday evening.

At 4:59 p.m., Odessa Fire Rescue crews responded to a residential trailer fire in the 1900 block of South Westcliff Road. While firefighters were operating on scene, conditions deteriorated rapidly, resulting in injuries to three firefighters.

All three firefighters were transported to Medical Center Hospital for treatment. Tragically, one firefighter succumbed to his injuries and was pronounced deceased at the hospital.

The fallen firefighter has been identified as 29-year-old Lieutenant Isai Huerta, who faithfully served the citizens of Odessa as a member of Odessa Fire Rescue for the past nine years. His next of kin has been notified.

"Isai was a huge part of our organization, a true firefighter," said Odessa Fire Rescue Chief Jason Cotton. "He was always happy, always willing to help, and he truly enjoyed the job. Our department is in need of prayer, guidance, and grace as we navigate moving forward. We grieve alongside Isai's family and ask our community to keep them and our firefighters in their thoughts during this incredibly difficult time."

Odessa Mayor Cal Hendrick added, "Tonight, Odessa has lost a hero. Firefighter Isai Huerta dedicated his life to protecting others, and his sacrifice will never be forgotten. On behalf of the City of Odessa, we extend our deepest condolences to his family, his brothers and sisters in the fire service, and everyone who had the privilege of knowing him. We ask our community to join us in keeping them in our prayers as we mourn this heartbreaking loss."

The two other firefighters injured during the incident did not sustain life-threatening injuries and are receiving care and support.

The Texas State Association of Fire Fighters is leading the investigation. Representatives from the International Association of Fire Fighters are also expected to arrive in Odessa tonight to provide additional support.

Odessa Fire Rescue has already begun debriefing personnel and is ensuring first responders have access to all available emotional, mental health, and peer-support resources.

Odessa Fire Rescue will hold a press conference tomorrow to answer questions and provide an update on the investigation.

05/25/2026

Your Bryan firefighters and their families showed up this morning for the Murph challenge. It was an honor to get to remember those men and women who made the ultimate sacrifice for our freedom.

12/12/2025

We had the privilege of delivering 30+ Christmas trees to Kemp Carver elementary school this morning. These trees will be handed out to students who have their name drawn for having perfect attendance. We are so grateful to be a small part of this amazing campus!!

12/11/2025

WHEN WILL IT BE ENOUGH, CITY OF BRYAN?

When will our Fire Administration finally acknowledge its failures to maintain basic apparatus readiness and public safety?

Currently, East Bryan was stripped of its only apparatus and forced to respond in a borrowed training engine—an engine never intended for real-world emergencies. A training engine that jeopardizes the firefighters riding on it and creates a false sense of security for citizens waiting for help that may never arrive.
An engine that may not even make it to your emergency because its sole purpose is training, not protecting lives.

And yet—rather than fix the crisis—our Administration is more concerned with creating policies to restrict media access to fire stations, attempting to hide just one of the many sources of smoke we’ve been warning about.
Because where there’s smoke… there’s fire.

If it wasn’t for College Station’s bravest, East Bryan would have endured depleted coverage and extended response times during multiple emergencies—because our frontline engine was out of service again due to mechanical failure.

This is not normal.
This is not acceptable.
And this is NOT what the citizens of Bryan deserve.

Enough is enough.

Your firefighters are crying out for help—
not for politics, not for spin,
but for basic safety and functional emergency equipment.

Listen to your firefighters.
Demand answers.
Demand accountability.
Demand better for East Bryan.

Bryan Fire Fighters Association

12/08/2025

🚨 BRYAN PUBLIC SAFETY ALERT 🚨
Within the first minutes of shift this morning, TWO frontline fire engines are out of service.

Our fleet maintenance team worked tirelessly to troubleshoot the issues, but the damage was done — and the impact on your neighborhood was real.

🔸 Engine 3 had to swap into the last functional Bryan reserve engine we have left.
🔸 Engine 2 had to move into a borrowed TEEX engine — an apparatus with no tools, no equipment, no Bryan Fire Department inspection or maintenance standards, and no functional radio or MDT.

That means:
➡️ No radio communication with dispatch from the engine itself.
➡️ No MDT for routing, call updates, or critical safety information.
➡️ The crew is forced to rely solely on handheld radios — a huge safety compromise when responding to emergencies where clear, reliable, and interoperable communication is essential.

Swapping into new units takes time and precision. It took three separate engines working together to move equipment, ensure readiness, and restore coverage — all to minimize the period where parts of Bryan had no fire protection at all.

⚠️ Meanwhile, the city’s reporting system still showed “no reduced coverage.”
But the men and women on the frontlines lived a very different reality.

Bryan, you deserve better than this.
Your firefighters deserve better than this.
Your neighborhoods deserve reliable, safe fire apparatus — not borrowed units, broken fleet, and engines without basic communication tools.

📣 Join us TOMORROW evening at the Bryan City Council meeting.
Stand with your firefighters.
Demand real solutions.
Demand accountability.
And demand an end to penalizing firefighters for speaking out about safety.

Public safety isn’t negotiable. Not for us — and not for you. 🔥🚒

12/07/2025

When there’s smoke, you deserve to know there’s fire.

This Tuesday, the City will enter executive session for legal guidance, claiming firefighters “eroded confidence” simply for telling the truth about unsafe apparatus — concerns we’ve documented since 2023 in emails, negotiations, and daily frontline reporting.

Why now?
Because the City is making an unprecedented demand for Union meeting minutes — a request never made in our Local’s history — only after our safety concerns became public following years of delay.
At the same time, the City continues to hide behind Attorney General requests to block internal documents that reveal real safety issues and internal actions taken against Union activity through legal open records requests.

And only after we went public did the City finally move to contract an EVT to begin addressing the backlog of failing apparatus.

City leadership has also begun visiting fire stations to look at deteriorating buildings, aging fleet, and out-of-service apparatus. The conversations may be polite — but talk is cheap. Actions matter.

So we must ask:
Why did public exposure have to come before meaningful action?

We are asking for your help, citizens of Bryan.
A call for transparency.
A call for responsible leadership.
A call for our community to stand with the firefighters who stand for you every single day.

Join us Tuesday, December 9th at City Hall at 5:30 p.m.
Stand with your firefighters.
Stand for honesty.
Stand for safety.
Stand for the future of our fire department.

It takes all of us coming together.

11/27/2025

This Thanksgiving, we want to say thank you, Bryan.

To the citizens of Bryan and to the Friends of the Bryan Fire Fighters Association thank you for standing with us, for asking the hard questions, and for demanding answers from City Hall and Fire Administration about the safety deficiencies putting both our firefighters and our community at risk.

Your voices matter.
Your support has pushed a select few council members to step outside the council chambers and see firsthand the safety concerns your firefighters face on the frontlines every single day.

But we aren’t at the finish line. Not even close.

As of this morning:

⚠️ 120+ open fleet repair tickets, some more than one year old
⚠️ Dozens of DOT and NFPA safety violations
⚠️ An administration more focused on smokescreen posts and misleading unit reports than on fixing the problem

While your city administration and elected officials spend today with their families, your firefighters will be standing by, ready to respond to yours.

We are thankful for your trust.
We are thankful for your support.
And we are thankful for a community that refuses to look the other way.

Your Bryan Fire Fighters, representing 100% of Bryan’s frontline firefighters, remain united in standing up for your safety.
We won’t stop fighting for safer apparatus, safer stations, and a safer Bryan.

Stand with us.
Speak up with us.
And together, we will protect this community.

Happy Thanksgiving, Bryan.