J. Ray Pence Leadership Award

The J. Ray Pence Leadership Award was established to recognize actions and activities of Chief Fire Officers in Oklahoma that produce progressive improvements in safety, efficiency and effectiveness in the areas of Fire Prevention, Fire Suppression and Fire Administration that are outstanding in their nature or impact.

This Award is presented annually to one Chief Officer each year during the Oklahoma Fire Chiefs Association Conference in the Spring.  The OFCA has partnered with Fire Protection Publications, who has generously enhanced the award by providing a $2,500 Research Fellowship to the recipient in order to improve the safety and efficiency of the Oklahoma Fire Service.

Any Chief Officer in the State of Oklahoma is eligible to nominate candidates.  Nominations must be submitted before the last day of January.  You may obtain the nomination forms from the OFCA office by mail, fax, e-mail or through THIS website.  Nominations must be returned to the office of the Executive Director by mail or e-mail.

Click here to download an interactive, pdf nomination form.  This is a new process that we are using.  Once you download the pdf to your desktop or other preferred location, simply open it in Acrobat Reader and click in the yellow boxes to begin typing.  Use the tab key to get to the next box or just click in each field.  When finished, click on the submit box in the lower right corner and it will automatically get it ready to email it back to us.  Just press send and you are done!  We do recommend that you save a completed copy on your computer for your records and in the event of an email failure.