Buffalo Texas Volunteer Fire Department

10/18/2026

09/25/2026

The fire truck that comes when you call in most of Texas is driven by somebody who was asleep in their own bed four minutes ago. 🚒

The large majority of fire departments in this state are volunteer. Not paid, not on shift, not sitting at the station waiting. They are welders and teachers and nurses and guys who run a feed store, and they carry a pager or a phone that can go off in the middle of a shower, a birthday dinner, or a Tuesday at two in the morning. Then they drive to the station, pull gear that is still damp from the last call, and go.

They pay for a lot of it themselves, or the county pays what it can, or the community does it with a barbecue plate sale and a raffle. The trucks are often older than the people driving them. And the calls are not only fires. They are wrecks out on the highway at night, grass fires running with the wind, water rescues, and cardiac calls where the closest hospital is fifty minutes away and the volunteer EMT kneeling on the floor is the only medicine in the room.

The hard part nobody outside it talks about is that in a small town you know the address before you get there. 🙏 You know whose kitchen it is. You go anyway, and then you go back to work in the morning like it was nothing.

09/11/2026

AS YOU PREPARE FOR BED TONIGHT NEVER FORGET:

On this day... 25 years ago:

❤️246 people went to sleep in preparation for their morning flights.
❤️2,606 people went to sleep in preparation for work in the morning.
❤️343 firefighters went to sleep in preparation for their morning shift.
❤️60 police officers went to sleep in preparation for morning patrol.
❤️8 paramedics went to sleep in preparation for the morning shift of saving lives.
💔None of them took a breath past 11:00 a.m. on September 11, 2001.

It doesn't matter if you weren't there, too little to remember or not even born yet, this day, this piece of history, changed the world forever.

It changed YOUR world forever.
WE WILL NEVER FORGET

08/21/2026