The safety of our nation’s firefighters will continue to improve thanks to a $1 million federal grant to the National Fallen Firefighters Foundation (NFFF). The grant will help support the Foundation’s Everyone Goes Home® program which educates firefighters about preventing line-of-duty deaths and injuries. The grant is awarded from the Department of Homeland Security’s Assistance… Read more »
Fire departments across North America and beyond are preparing for the 2012 International Fire/EMS Safety and Health Week, June 17-23, featuring the Rules You Can Live By in both firefighter health and safety. Are you ready?
The Everyone Goes Home-Courage to be Safe® program is about 5 years old. Line of Duty Deaths (LODD’s) have dropped below 80 in 2010 and around 80 in 2011.
In an effort to make personal safety a top priority, the National Fallen Firefighters Foundation (NFFF) and the Chicago Fire Department (CFD) today released a new video, Chicago Fire Department – Everyone Goes Home®.
The National Fallen Firefighters Foundation (NFFF) launched a new website today dedicated to academic and strategic information and research that directly supports the 16 Firefighter Life Safety Initiatives.
To honor those who suffered fatal burns and to advocate for improvements in safety codes and home fire sprinkler installation, the National Fallen Firefighters Foundation (NFFF) will join burn survivors, their loved ones, healthcare professionals and fire service leaders and firefighters for the Walk of Remembrance on Wednesday, September 21 in Cincinnati, OH.
NFFF – FDNY video: Still Working… So Everyone Goes Home
The IAFF Burn Foundation and the National Fallen Firefighters Foundation have partnered over the last year with the Phoenix Society for Burn Survivors to develop a firefighter peer support component of the Survivors Offering Assistance in Recovery (SOAR) Program.
The National Fallen Firefighters Foundation (NFFF) received a $1 million Fire Prevention and Safety (FPS) Grant to sustain and expand a number of programs and services through the Foundation’s Everyone Goes Home® Firefighter Life Safety Initiatives Program.
In 2008, the FDNY allowed an NFFF film crew unprecedented access to members of that legendary department. These brave men and women shared their commitment to safe practices and courageoulsy told the stories of how they escaped death but, in some cases, not severe injury.
