Randa Brown Randa Brown, Photo by Klare Perez It was early February when one of Randa Brown’s San Antonio Fire Department superiors walked by with a phone pressed to his ear, paperwork in his hand and his eyes already on another task in front of him. “He gets off the phone and says, ‘I’m busy, you want to help me out?’” Brown remembers. “He said there was a new program that needed feet on the ground and that they didn’t know a lot, but it might not be super safe.” Brown replied that she was comfortable with the risk. “It’s been a whirlwind ever since,” she says.