At Grace Under Fire, we bring decades of real frontline experience to a mission rooted in protecting, educating, and empowering the communities we serve.
With honesty, compassion, and true firefighting expertise, we make fire safety simple, practical, and accessible—without fear, pressure, or confusion. From teaching monthly extinguisher checks to showing you exactly how to respond when seconds matter, we walk alongside you every step of the way.At every stage, we’re not just a service provider. We’re your trusted fire safety partners.
Greg Lawler is a retired Fire Captain with 34 years of service who continues his calling through Grace Under Fire, supporting businesses and families with practical, people-first fire safety education and preparedness.
Decades on the fireground taught Greg that outcomes are often shaped before help arrives by awareness, preparation, and the decisions made in the earliest moments. That understanding now guides his work helping people recognize hazards, reduce risk, and understand their options when seconds matter most.
His focus centers on the fundamentals that save lives: fire extinguisher readiness, calm response under pressure, and residential escape planning especially during the vulnerable hours when people are asleep. These lessons are drawn directly from experience and taught with clarity and respect.
Grounded in servant leadership, Greg carries forward the legacy of those who served before him by teaching, equipping, and guiding others to build readiness that protects life and supports better outcomes.
Bertha Lawler is a bilingual educator and fire safety trainer who brings warmth, clarity, and genuine care to every interaction. With a background in early childhood education, she works with families, small businesses, and young learners to teach fire safety in ways that are simple, empowering, and approachable.
Her instruction emphasizes awareness, calm response, and age-appropriate understanding helping people build confidence without fear. Through patience, creativity, and a people-first approach, Bertha connects safety concepts to everyday life so learners of all ages feel seen, supported, and prepared.
Years in education have shaped Bertha’s belief that how we treat others and what we teach truly matters.
For Bertha, these moments affirm the heart of her work: meaningful connection, steady guidance, and the quiet privilege of helping shape lives rooted in confidence, character, and care
Our mission is to protect life by bringing practical fire service knowledge into everyday spaces.
We build trust through presence, elevate awareness through real-world perspective, and equip people with clear fire safety skills, including fire extinguisher readiness and calm decision-making, so they can recognize risk, act with purpose, and protect one another when seconds matter. Because buildings can be replaced.
People cannot.
We envision communities where people are present, prepared, and accountable for one another, where awareness replaces complacency, preparation becomes a daily habit, and calm decision making is practiced before a crisis begins.
In the fire service, values aren’t something you recite they’re something you live.
When someone needs help, you show up not for credit or recognition, but because helping is simply what you do.
Knowledge becomes protection when it’s shared. We teach because someone once taught us and passing that forward can save a life.
To serve a community is to become part of it. We look out for people the way firefighters look out for each other with trust, humility, and heart.
CFA graduates often leave with increased confidence, situational awareness, and a practical safety mindset they carry forward. We believe programs like CFA help people move through the world more prepared, not fearful, and more engaged in prevention.
