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Bryant was a firefighter starting in 1977 before becoming the fire chief of Oklahoma City from 2005 to 2017. [2] [3] He was also the president of the International Association of Fire Chiefs. [4] In May 2017, President Donald Trump announced his intention to nominate Bryant as Administrator of the United States Fire Administration (USFA). [5] [6]
The new law contained a 1 percent tax on insurance premiums to fund the pension benefits for both paid and volunteer firefighters. Oklahoma cities and towns administered the program until the Oklahoma Legislature created the current System in 1980.
The department ranked among the best despite being undermanned and inadequately equipped. On April 3, 1928, the firemen submitted a "petition NO. 2" to raise the salary from $0.42 an hour to $0.56 per hour. In 1931 each man signed a contract saying they would pay the survivors of an active firefighter in the event they died on or off the job.
A fire fighter's turnout gear staged in front of a fire engine. According to the National Fire Department Registry, in January 2025 there were 1,207,800 firefighters in the United States (this includes career, volunteer and paid per call firefighters as well as civilian staff and non-firefighting personnel). Of these, 14.7% are mostly or ...
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Oklahoma's lawmakers should be applauded for wanting to reduce health care costs, but their default position is increasingly to layer costly mandates to the health care system.
In 1928, the fire department had three paid firefighters. In 1936, one firefighter was cut from the force when staffing was reduced to two firefighters. In 1950, the department had five full-time firefighters, and in 1957 they added two more paid firefighters bringing the number up to seven full-time and fifteen volunteers.
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