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TEXAS Hazardous Materials Education and Training Scholarships
TEXAS Hazardous Materials Education and Training Scholarships
Battalion Chief
Travis L. Maher
Memorial Scholarship
Texas HEAT awards two $2500 scholarships annually to two Texas emergency response departments, agencies or organizations. Each scholarship allows two members of the receiving department’s HazMat team to attend the IAFC Hazardous Materials Response Teams Conference. The application period is January 1st to February 28th of each year. The scholarships will be awarded, and the recipients notified, by March 31st of each year.
Qualified applicants must be an active career or volunteer member of an emergency services department, agency or organization in the United States of America, be a U.S. citizen currently residing in the United States of America and be a certified Hazardous Materials Technician.
Awardees Are Selected on Four Broad Criteria
Awardees Are Selected on Four Broad Criteria
The Scholarship Committee reviews qualified applications in March of each year and selects award recipients by letter ballot. Awardees are selected on the following four criteria:
Must be TCFP Hazardous Materials Technician certified and possess previous additional training in hazardous materials response
Demonstrate potential to have a positive impact upon future hazardous materials response and training in his or her organization and the emergency response community
Provide documented personal and financial support from the applicants’ department, agency, or organization to ensure the awardees are able to attend the full conference
Analysis of two (one per applicant) favorable written recommendations submitted with the application packet application@us-heat.org
Accepting the first donation for TEXAS HEAT, from left to right, Chris Hawley, (IAFC HazMat Conference Coordinator), Chief Bob Royall (IAFC Hazardous Materials Committee Chairman), Larry Jantzen (Assistant Chief, Austin, Texas Fire Department and Committee Chairman for TX HEAT), and Mike Hildebrand, (President, Yvorra Leadership Development Foundation)
Scholarship Information:
TEXAS H.E.A.T. Awards Committee
TEXAS H.E.A.T. Awards Committee
Larry D. Jantzen
Assistant Chief
Austin Fire
(Retired) Committee Chair
Louis Lopez
Training Chief
Texas City FD
Harry Evans
Assistant Fire Chief (Retired)
Marty Herrin
Chief
Williamson County Hazmat (Retired)
Glen Rudner
Consultant
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