Saturday, June 21st 2025 at 9:00 AM – 11:00 AM, Fire Corps Training, 150 W Maxwell St, Pensacola, FL 32501, USA

John Thomas Winskas Attended Event: 

Saturday, June 21st, 2025, 9:00am-11:00am, Brace Firecorp Monthly Training -150 E. Maxwell St, Pensacola, FL 32503, United States


  • Left home at around 7:45am.
  • Walked 2 miles to the BRACE building at 150 W. Maxwell st, Pensacola, FL 32503.
  • Met Bonita & 2 fire corp trainees/members.
  • Ate a Muffin and a Banana.
  • Reviewed Firecorp training slides.
  • Learned about upcoming events. 
  • Walked 2 miles home-11:00am-2:30pm
    • Walked to Fish & Loaves thrift store (bought a few toiletries to hand out).
    • Gave about $2.60, a lighter, a bag of toiletries, and a few pamplets/business cards of local support services to James who I met on my way to Fish & Loaves thrift store.
    • Walked to Publix replaced the Milk, paprika, and the bottle of syrup (bought an extra bottle of syrup for syrup-butter) that I ate during the past month and replaced the red pepper flakes I ran out of a few weeks ago (I have been using black pepper as a substitute for the red pepper flakes).
    • Asked Preston if he wanted me to collect the BRACE Disaster dash sign in front of the East Hill Publix to return to BRACE at the next BRACE Training.
    • Walked home

I look forward to continuing to train as a volunteer with BRACE CERT & BRACE Firecorp.


Location: 150 W Maxwell St, Pensacola, FL 32501, USA

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