Tahoe Douglas Fire raises funds to award scholarship to Douglas High student

ROUND HILL, Nev. - Every Labor Day, the Tahoe Douglas Fire Protection District (TDFPD) holds a pancake breakfast to support local students in their quest for higher education, and in particular in the field of public service.

They serve Douglas County at Lake Tahoe from the top of Kingsbury Grade to the top of Spooner Summit. This year they chose to invest in the Douglas High School graduating class of 2019 and awarded Alexa Moss with their annual scholarship.

Many of their employees and retirees reside in the valley and have raised their families there.

"We are particularly proud of the fact that every fire season, over one-third of our 30+ wildland fire crew members have been Douglas High School graduates," said TDFPD in a news release.

The Community Service - The Protection of Lives and Property scholarship went to Alexa who is the daughter of Kerri and Todd Moss. She is attending California State University, Sacramento and playing Division I soccer with a focus on becoming a nurse for pediatric oncology.

The TDFPD scholarship is open to candidates who will be pursuing an education in a field of public service. They hope to inspire graduates to serve in the healthcare, public safety administration, fire service, or law enforcement fields to give back to the communities they will live in.

Since the inception of their fuels management/wildland firefighter program in 2008, TDFPD has awarded paramedic school scholarships averaging $10,000 per year to Zephyr Crew members. With the success of their pancake breakfasts, they have now been able to increase high school scholarships to $500 each for each of the Douglas County schools, thus bringing our scholarship donations to close to $120,000 in the past decade.