Emmitsburg, MD - The National Fallen Firefighters Foundation Life Safety Initiatives Program, is pleased to announce that Kevin D. Quinn has been selected as the Firefighter Life Safety Initiatives Program State Advocate for Rhode Island. Deputy Chief Quinn of the Union Fire District will join Stephen Hay, Warwick Fire Department and Teddie Cocco, Providence Fire Department as Rhode Island State Advocates. March 10 - 11, 2004 hundreds of fire service leaders attended a Summit hosted by the National Fallen Firefighters Foundation in Tampa, Fla. Their collective goal was to come up with an approach that would enable fire departments to achieve the goal set by the United States Fire Administration, of reducing firefighter line of duty deaths by 50% in 10 years. The Summit produced a unique consensus document that became known as the "16 Firefighter Life Safety Initiatives" or the blueprint to eliminating preventable firefighter line of duty injury and deaths.

The Foundation applied for and received a Department of Homeland Security Fire Safety and Prevention Grant to fund the Firefighter Life Safety Initiatives Program. The primary mission of this program is to work in conjunction with all other national fire service organizations to make every fire department in United States aware of the "blueprint" developed in Tampa, and to provide resources to enable departments to implement them.

In this position Deputy Chief Quinn with the Rhode Island Life Safety Initiatives Team will be working to ensure that fire departments in Rhode Island are aware of the initiatives and assist them in implementation strategies. Kevin, and his fire service professionals, will be the ears and eyes for the national program supporting the mission of eliminating preventable line-of-duty injuries and deaths through the sharing and implementation of best practices and training programs.

Kevin D. Quinn has personally dedicated his career to promoting safety and reducing the number of firefighter fatalities in the Union Fire District. As Deputy Chief, he has aided his district in implementing necessary safe practices such as revamping their Standard Operating Guidelines with firefighter safety as a basic premise and maintaining response safety, scene safety and risk management as the district's pillars of operation. The Life Safety Initiatives Team is pleased to welcome Kevin D. Quinn to the program.

For more information on the Everyone Goes Home Program please visit www.everyonegoeshom.com or call 1.877.344.0361.