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The IAFF Fallen Fire Fighter Memorial is a permanent remembrance of IAFF members and emergency medical services personnel who have lost their lives in the line of duty. An annual Fallen Firefighters memorial ceremony is held each year in September in Colorado Springs, Colorado (with the exception of 2020 and 2021 due to the Coronavirus (Covid ...
Fire Patrol House #1 in Midtown Fire Patrol House #2 in Greenwich Village Fire Patrol House #3 in Brooklyn. The New York Fire Patrol (FPNY) was a salvage corps created by the New York Board of Fire Underwriters which operated from 1839 until October 15, 2006.
Brenda Denise Cowan was Lexington, Kentucky's first black female firefighter and died in the line of duty on February 13, 2004. [8] According to Women in the Fire Service, Lieutenant Cowan is the first black female career firefighter ever to die in the line of duty. [citation needed] She had served with the Lexington Fire Department for twelve ...
Edward A. "Edzo" Kelly is an American firefighter and trade union leader. [1] Kelly joined the Boston Fire Department in 1997. [2] He has been General President of the International Association of Fire Fighters (IAFF) since 2021 when he defeated Mahlon Mitchell of Wisconsin.
In 1982, Whitehead was elected as full-time secretary-treasurer of the IAFF, in which role he established a line-item budget, and averted a potential bankruptcy of the union. In 1988, he was instead elected as president of the union, defeating incumbent leader Jack Gannon. [1] [2] He also served as a vice-president of the AFL-CIO. In 2000, he ...
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Schaitberger focused on ensuring that the IAFF supported candidates and lawmakers who are friendly to firefighters and their issues, regardless of political party. Prior to Schaitberger's first election as IAFF General President in 2000, he had served on the union's headquarters staff as a top advisor to three IAFF Presidents since 1976, and as ...
Some firefighters at a west suburban fire department have been relieved of their duties, for refusing to remove patriotic flags from their lockers and helmets. Maywood Fire Chief Craig Bronaugh ...