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for 20 years . Lieutenant randy Pearson

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has been saving lives as a training

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officer for the Colleen fire department .

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Pearson does more than instruct

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firefighters to battle blazes . He also

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teaches Colleen residents and Fort Hood

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soldiers to take safety seriously . Our

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motto overall is a fire department

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which people don't understand a lot of

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times is as if we have a lazy day where

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we don't have to leave the station ,

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that means nobody's having a bad day .

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So um if I can keep them from having

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that fire and calling us , that's my

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job . That's what I wanna do . Members

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of the H . H . D . 49 Transportation

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Battalion , a movement control unit

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recently attended Pearson's fire

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extinguisher class at the Melvin W .

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Widely training center . Even the most

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senior soldiers in attendance learned

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something new . I rent a home here and

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texas and I don't have one fire

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extinguisher in my home . I have smoke

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detectors , no fire extinguishers .

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Besides the fire extinguisher class ,

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the training center offers classes in

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car seat safety basic cpr as well as

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the fire E . M . S . Academy where

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people become certified emergency

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medical technicians and firefighters

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reporting from clean . I'm specialist

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10 in Gatun Within E . Seventh mobile

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public Affairs detachment