To our fellow public safety professionals,

After 20 years of providing TexCom as a service to the firefighting and public safety community, we want to let you know that this website will officially be retired on November 1, 2025.

This site was built by firefighters, for firefighters and other public safety professionals. We started it with a simple goal: to help our peers communicate, share updates, and store important documents in one central place.

When we first launched, we planned to sustain the site through a small fee or advertising revenue. A think tank of Fire Chiefs believed that with grassroots support and vendor outreach from participating organizations, that we could generate a sustainable base of advertisers to support TexCom and offer it free since many small organizations didn't have the ability to pay for these services. Unfortunately, that support never materialized to the level we had hoped.

While we received incredible feedback from countless first response organizations across the country about how effective and beneficial TexCom was for their daily operations, we were never able to build the funding base we had hoped for. In the absence of that support, we began heavily funding TexCom ourselves. Through it all, TexCom remained a labor of love -- a way for us to give back to the first responder community we care deeply about.

Over the years, the way we all communicate has changed. As the internet and technology evolved, many of you have found other tools and platforms that better meet your department's needs. Cell phone providers have recently stopped support for email to text functionality and other alternatives come with a high cost. Given these shifts and the time and money it takes to maintain the site, we feel the time is right to bring this chapter to a close.

We're incredibly proud of what this site has meant to so many over the years. Thank you for being a part of it.

If you need to retrieve any documents or information from the site, please do so before November 1, 2025, after which the site will no longer be available.

All user and organization data stored on the site will NOT be shared nor sold and will be permanently deleted by December 31, 2025.

With gratitude,
Frank and Dan
Firefighters & Founders