Bryan Firefighters Association

Bryan Firefighters Association Bryan Firefighters Association IAFF Local 1204.

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We had the privilege of delivering 30+ Christmas trees to Kemp Carver elementary school this morning. These trees will b...
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!!

WHEN WILL IT BE ENOUGH, CITY OF BRYAN?When will our Fire Administration finally acknowledge its failures to maintain bas...
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. 🔥🚒

When there’s smoke, you deserve to know there’s fire.This Tuesday, the City will enter executive session for legal guida...
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.

Bryan deserves the truth — and our firefighters deserve better.Yesterday, the City of Bryan released a statement dismiss...
11/20/2025

Bryan deserves the truth — and our firefighters deserve better.

Yesterday, the City of Bryan released a statement dismissing our documented fire apparatus failures as “misleading.” That wasn’t just an attempt to reassure the public — it was an attempt to downplay the real issues your firefighters face every single day while protecting this community.

And the message from leadership is even more alarming.

The Acting City Manager was told that the only safety concern in the entire fire department is “routine mechanical items on Engine 3.”

Let that sink in.

Meanwhile, here’s what firefighters on the street are experiencing:

🚒 Engines failing on calls
🚫 Units going out of service with no reserves available
⚠️ Ladder trucks with repeated safety issues
🚑 Medics running with known problems
🏚️ Stations reporting the same failures again and again
👥 Staffing shortages that strain every shift

So we have to ask: Why is our administration telling City Management that everything is fine?
Why minimize or hide issues that impact the safety of your families and the men and women sworn to protect them?

Even worse — firefighters are threatened with discipline if they fail to report safety concerns, yet leadership seems comfortable ignoring or downplaying those concerns when reporting up the chain. That double standard puts everyone at risk.

This is not leadership.
This is not transparency.
And this is not how you protect a community.

Bryan needs — and deserves — better.

We need leadership that:

🔥 Tells the truth
🔥 Puts safety over politics
🔥 Supports its firefighters, not silences them
🔥 Fixes problems instead of hiding them

Your firefighters will continue to speak up.
We will continue to report unsafe apparatus.
We will continue to push for real solutions — not spin, not deflection, not excuses.

Because our commitment is to you — the citizens of Bryan — and to the firefighters who respond when you call for help.

It’s time for change.
It’s time for accountability.
It’s time to protect Bryan’s firefighters so they can protect Bryan.

11/20/2025

Texas State Association of Fire FightersMichael Glynn, IAFF District 11 Vice President

11/20/2025

Michael Glynn, IAFF District 11 Vice PresidentTexas State Association of Fire Fighters

Engine 5 is now back in service and responding to calls in your neighborhood.If you are concerned or simply curious abou...
11/19/2025

Engine 5 is now back in service and responding to calls in your neighborhood.

If you are concerned or simply curious about the condition of the fire equipment assigned to your area, you have the right to review the City of Bryan’s active service records and maintenance tickets through an Open Records Request.

Transparency matters — and the public has every right to understand the reliability of the equipment protecting their families.

Your firefighters remain committed to serving you with integrity, professionalism, and honesty. If the equipment you depend on is falling short, you deserve to know.

***Update***Engine 5 has been returned to service Engine 5, assigned to Station 5, is currently out of service due to me...
11/19/2025

***Update***Engine 5 has been returned to service

Engine 5, assigned to Station 5, is currently out of service due to mechanical failure.
This means your neighborhood is operating with reduced fire protection until the unit is repaired and returned to service.

This situation highlights a growing concern: the City of Bryan has not kept pace with the basic maintenance needs required to ensure reliable fire apparatus for the citizens we serve. We currently have zero reserve fire engines available, the result of ongoing and repeated maintenance failures across the fleet.

When a frontline fire engine goes down and no reserve unit is available, your safety is compromised. In order to maintain emergency coverage, we are now evaluating the need to request outside agencies or regional partners for reliable equipment assistance.

Our firefighters will always respond when you call.
But we cannot ignore the risk created when aging, neglected, or unreliable equipment takes critical units out of service.

Your safety deserves better.
Your firefighters deserve the tools to protect you.

Your Bryan Firefighters will be out all weekend for . Be sure to pay attention when coming into major intersections aro...
11/15/2025

Your Bryan Firefighters will be out all weekend for . Be sure to pay attention when coming into major intersections around town!!

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Bryan, TX
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