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HURRICANE SEASON JUNE 1 - NOVEMBER 30

Residents with Special Needs are Asked to Register:  Liberty County Emergency Management Office 936 334 3219 - City of Liberty 936 336 3922 - City of Cleveland 281 593 0405 State of Texas 2-1-1

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FIRE DEPARTMENT HONORS THEIR BEST

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SOMETIME WE CAN LOSE SIGHT OF THE FACT THERE ARE SO MANY DIFFERENT VOLUNTEER EMERGENCY ORGANIZATIONS. – GROUPS LIKE FIRE , EMS, SEARCH AND RESCUE AND HAZARDOUS MATERIAL GROUPS ALL ACROSS LIBERTY COUNTY. . SOME ARE PAID PROFESSIONALS AND SOME ARE VOLUNTEERS WHO GIVE AN AMAZING NUMBERS OF HOURS AND PERSONAL RESOURCES TO MAKE THEIR COMMUNITY SAFER. IN LIBERTY COUNTY 20 SUCH ORGANIZATIONS EXIST WITH VOLUNTEERS SHARING THEIR SKILLS IN AN OFTEN HEROIC MANNER. LAST SATURDAY NIGHT ONE OF THOSE GROUPS, THE LIBERTY FIRE DEPARTMENT, HELD THEIR ANNUAL AWARDS BANQUET TO HONOR THE BEST OF THE BEST. LIBERTY HAS BOTH PAID AND VOLUNTEER MEMBERS. ON HAND SATURDAY WERE MOST MEMBERS OF LIBERTY CITY COUNCIL TO EXPRESS THEIR GRATITUDE. MAYOR PRO-TEM MIKE MCCARTY, CITY MANAGER GARY BROZ, MEDICAL DIRECTOR DR. STEVEN ELLERBE – AND FIRE AND EMS CHIEF FRED COLLINS ALL EXPRESSED THEIR GRATITUDE. FOR THE MEN AND WOMEN WHO SERVE. AND RESPOND TO SO MANY EMERGENCY CALLS. THE THREE TOP HONORS EACH YEAR INCLUDE THE FIREFIGHTER WITH THE GREATEST NUMBER OF CALL RESPONSES AND THAT WAS JACOB CANTU- HE’S A RECENT FIRE SERVICE ACADEMY GRADUATE. THE ROOKIE OF THE YEAR AWARD WENT TO A VETERAN FIREFIGHTER, BUT THE HONOREE – BRAD TAYLOR - ONLY RECENTLY BECOME A VOLUNTEER WITH THE LIBERTY DEPARTMENT.. THEN CAME THE HERALDED RECOGNITION OF FIREFIGHTER OF THE YEAR. FOR THE SECOND YEAR IN A ROW THAT WENT TO JACOB CANTU. – SO THAT FOURTH GENERATION FIREFIGHTER TOOK HOME TWO OF THE TOP HONORS FOR SERVICE ASA MEMBER OF THE LIBERTY FIRE DEPARTMENT. . NEW ELECTED COMMAND OFFICERS, SWORN IN SATURDAY NIGHT, INCLUDED FIRST ASSISTANT CHIEF, AGAIN FOR 2010, IS LARRY HAJOVSKY (PRO: HI-YOS-KEE) . SECOND ASSISTANT CHIEF: CHARLES LAMBERTH. . LIEUTENANT FOR ENGINE 21 IS OSCAR CANTU, FOR ENGINE 23 IS KEENAN PARTAIN, ENGINE 24 IS KELLIE PARTAIN.. SECRETARY IS LACI LOGNION (PRO: LAWN-YON) AND TREASURER IS LARRY HAJOVSKY. .