About
Nana’s Fire and Safety School is the product of tragedy and the vision that early education can help avoid such tragedies in the future.
Nana lost 12 family members in a pipeline explosion August 19, 2000. The family had gathered for camping south of Carlsbad, New Mexico as they had multiples times before over many years.
The scene that followed tested Nana, her surviving family members and all who responded in ways they could never foresee.
Nana’s Fire and Safety School was born of this heart wrenching event and is Nana’s way of giving back to those who served and supported her during that impossibly difficult time. Nana became the vehicle of a $10 million endowment to build a firefighter training center.
Permian Basin Regional Training Center is that fire training center. Nana’s Fire and Safety School will be built there, in Carlsbad, New Mexico.