Bryan Firefighters Association

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

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.