NLRFD Lt. James E. Williams, a trailblazing firefighter, was remembered by his family and colleagues for breaking racial ...

James E. Williams, who broke a historic barrier as the first Black firefighter to complete the North Little Rock Fire ...

BREAKING BARRIERS AS A PUBLIC SERVANT. FROM DELIVERING FLOWERS TO FIREFIGHTING, REGGIE WILLIAMS CAREER IS REMARKABLE. AND THE CURRENT COST OF A FIRE ENGINE. HE SPENT FOUR YEARS AS ROCKLAND’S FIRST ...

Making black young men and women self-reliant. Over the last three years “The Black Fire Brigade” has been recruiting, training African-American youth to become medical technicians and firefighters.

James Williams spent 39 years extinguishing blazes and blazing trails with the North Little Rock Fire Department. In 1969, ...