Posted on: January 10, 2023
PHOTO #1: The Victoria Fire Department’s new civilian cadets pose for a photo on their first day of training with the Victoria Fire Department’s in-house Fire Academy on Jan. 9 at the Victoria Fire Training Facility.
PHOTO #2: Fire Training Specialist Andr...
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2020 - Spotlight - Fire
Posted on: January 10, 2023
PHOTO: Victoria Police Department Officer John Turner speaks during a Lunch and Learn event in 2022 at the Victoria Community Center.
The City of Victoria’s police and fire departments will host a monthly “Lunch and Learn” event at the Victoria Community C...
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2020 - Spotlight - Fire
Posted on: October 15, 2020
PHOTO: Victoria Fire Department Emergency Medical Services carries equipment, shown here, to provide blood transfusions to critically ill or injured patients.
Today marks one year since the Victoria Fire Department began providing whole blood transfusions ...
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2020 - Spotlight - Fire
Posted on: October 14, 2020
The Victoria Fire Department is partnering with local health care providers and nonprofits to provide a no-cost flu shot clinic for homeless and low-income residents 11 a.m.-1 p.m. Oct. 26-28 at Queen City Park.
The clinic will be funded by Community Devel...
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2020 - Spotlight - Fire
Posted on: September 29, 2020
Victoria Fire Department employees are producing a collection of videos to teach the public about fire safety, and residents will have the opportunity to vote for their favorites in honor of Fire Prevention Week.
“Normally at this time of year, we host our...
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2020 - Spotlight - Fire
Posted on: September 22, 2020
Victoria Fire Department fire medic Luis Malone-Ordaz was named Fire Fighter of the Year by the Victoria Northside Rotary Club. Malone-Ordaz has been with the Victoria Fire Department since May 2015. Before that, he worked for Gemini Ambulance Service in ...
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2020 - Spotlight - Fire
Posted on: September 8, 2020
PHOTO #1: Members of the Victoria Fire Department pose for a photo at the San Antonio 110 9/11 Memorial Climb on Sept. 11, 2019. This year’s event will be hosted remotely at multiple locations, including Memorial Stadium in Victoria.
PHOTO #2: Co...
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2020 - Spotlight - Fire
Posted on: August 31, 2020
From top left, firefighter/paramedic Leanna Richter, firefighter/EMT Madelyn Bishop, firefighter/EMT Rebekah Thompson, firefighter/EMT Ethan Strzelcyk, firefighter/EMT Angelo Stafford, firefighter/EMT Wyatt Andrews, firefighter/EMT Jalen Rangel and inspec...
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2020 - Spotlight - Fire
Posted on: June 22, 2020
City of Victoria Fire Department engineers Joel Gomez and Raul Liendo, who will both retire this month, have been with the department long enough to remember when Fire and EMS were separate operations.
Gomez and Liendo both started as members of Victoria E...
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2020 - Spotlight - Fire
Posted on: May 26, 2020
PHOTO #1: Firefighter paramedic Pamela Yanta with the Victoria Fire Department prepares May 21 to help test nursing home residents for COVID-19. In order to comply with Governor Greg Abbott’s May 11 order that all nursing home residents and staff be teste...
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2020 - Spotlight - Fire
Posted on: May 22, 2020
The City of Victoria’s Fire Department has earned the American Heart Association’s 2020 Mission: Lifeline EMS Gold Plus recognition for its efforts to improve care for patients suffering from an ST-elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI), a serious type o...
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2020 - Spotlight - Fire