TITLE: Honoring the Pasadena Volunteer Fire Department.

SUMMARY: Honoring the Pasadena Volunteer Fire Department.

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WHEREAS, The Pasadena Volunteer Fire Department has served the city and surrounding communities for more than eight decades, and it is indeed fitting to recognize the enormous contributions of this noteworthy organization; and WHEREAS, The largest single-municipality, all-volunteer fire department in the United States, the Pasadena Volunteer Fire Department was founded in 1930 with an initial membership of 25 firefighters; today, its ranks include more than 200 active firefighters and 50 semi-active firefighters who dedicate themselves to the safety and security of their fellow citizens; and WHEREAS, The PVFD has mutual aid agreements with all of its neighboring cities and many other nearby municipal and industrial fire departments and responds to approximately 170 alarms per month in its almost 60-square-mile service area; it provides mutual aid protection to Ellington Field, NASA's Johnson Space Center, and the University of Houston-Clear Lake, and it is an active member of the Channel Industries Mutual Aid organization, which responds to emergencies at petrochemical plants and refineries in the region; moreover, the department is the parent organization to the Pasadena Fire Marshal's Office, which handles inspections, fire prevention, and cause and origin investigations; and WHEREAS, Since 2006, the department has benefited from the able guidance of Chief Lanny Armstrong; his strong leadership team includes assistant chief Richard Lawhorn and district chiefs Granville Brasfield, Frank Butler, Dana Jenkins, Michael Kainer, Bill Moon, Dwight Ottele, Steve Owen, and John Stokes; and WHEREAS, The courageous firefighters serving and protecting Pasadena residents over the past 81 years have set the highest standards of excellence, and their department is a source of tremendous pride to the community; now, therefore, be it RESOLVED, That the House of Representatives of the 82nd Texas Legislature hereby honor the Pasadena Volunteer Fire Department and extend to its members sincere best wishes for continued success in their important work; and, be it further RESOLVED, That an official copy of this resolution be prepared for the department as an expression of high regard by the Texas House of Representatives. Legler Straus Gonzales of Williamson Morrison Aliseda Gonzalez Munoz, Jr. Allen Gooden Murphy Alonzo Guillen Naishtat Alvarado Gutierrez Nash Anchia Hamilton Oliveira Anderson of Dallas Hancock Orr Anderson of McLennan Hardcastle Otto Aycock Harless Parker Beck Harper-Brown Patrick Berman Hartnett Paxton Bohac Hernandez Luna Pena Bonnen Hilderbran Perry Branch Hochberg Phillips Brown Hopson Pickett Burkett Howard of Fort Bend Pitts Burnam Howard of Travis Price Button Huberty Quintanilla Cain Hughes Raymond Callegari Hunter Reynolds Carter Isaac Riddle Castro Jackson Ritter Chisum Johnson Rodriguez Christian Keffer Schwertner Coleman King of Parker Scott Cook King of Taylor Sheets Craddick King of Zavala Sheffield Creighton Kleinschmidt Shelton Crownover Kolkhorst Simpson Darby Kuempel Smith of Harris Davis of Dallas Landtroop Smith of Tarrant J. Davis of Harris Larson Smithee S. Davis of Harris Laubenberg Solomons Deshotel Lavender Strama Driver Legler Taylor of Collin Dukes Lewis Taylor of Galveston Dutton Lozano Thompson Eiland Lucio III Torres Eissler Lyne Truitt Elkins Madden Turner Farias Mallory Caraway Veasey Farrar Margo Villarreal Fletcher Marquez Vo Flynn Martinez Walle Frullo Martinez Fischer Weber Gallego McClendon White Garza Menendez Woolley Geren Miles Workman Giddings Miller of Comal Zedler Gonzales of Hidalgo Miller of Erath Zerwas Speaker of the House I certify that H.R. No. 583 was adopted by the House on March 3, 2011, by a non-record vote. Chief Clerk of the House