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010518 STALEY SCHOLARSHIP

779 views · Published 9 January 2018 · 4:33 · Indexed 22 September 2026

Channel: SCOTT ENGLE-MONTGOMERY COUNTY POLICE REPORTER- · 2018 · News & Politics

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On Friday members of Lone Star College, Porter Fire Department and The Woodlands Fire Department and the parents of the late Porter firefighter Gary Staley met at the Lone Star College Campus on Research Forest. THe purpose of the meeting was the presentation of a check for $50,000 to the Lone Star College  for students wanting to enter the fire service. On January 19, 2003 Gary Staley, 31,  who was  a volunteer with the Porter Volunteer Fire Department for just over 2-years responded to a auto restoration shop fire in the 24600 block of Loop 494 in Porter. while fighting that fire, While battling the blaze Staley and several firefighters entered the building. When the fire intensified Staley and three other firefighters started to pull back out of the building. They became separated and three of the four finally made it out. Two sustained critical burns and another minor burns. Staley did not make it out. The fire in which Staley lost his life determined to have been caused after a tile man used lacquer thinner while working on the building. When he plugged in a space heater, the vapors ignited.  Don Staley, Gary's father decided then to start the Gary Staley Memorial Fund. This fund was to help young people who are going into the fire service to assist in their college education. Since then several events have been held including a yearly golf tournament. Don Staley, Gary's father said, "we started giving scholarships in 2003 after Gary died in a fire. Before Gary was killed, he came to us and we were his scholarship so thought it was a fitting thing to start a scholarship fund in his honor." The Memorial Fund has since put out over 200 scholarships with this being the largest.

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