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  National Fallen Firefighters Foundation and Chicago Fire Department Release New Everyone Goes Home® Video 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®. Members of the CFD and families of fallen firefighters share their stories in this compelling and moving testimonial of the importance  [ Read More ]

FireHeroTV: Chicago Fire Department A preview of the National Fallen Firefighters Foundation film, Chicago Fire Department – Everyone Goes Home, directed by Rob Maloney.http://www.everyonegoeshome.com and http://www.firehero.org     Did you like this? Share it:Tweet

Safety is the number one concern in the fire service and continues to be preached throughout our careers. I think the reality is, we as a whole, talk more then we actually do. Whether it is the little things like wearing seatbelts or taking our time walking down stairs at resident’s homes; we need to be more conscious of our personal safety and those that work around us as well.  [ Read More ]

The NFFF has rolled out an updated page for the International First Responder Seatbelt Pledge. This was done in an effort to compile all the resources in one place. The main website now for Seatbelt Safety is http://everyonegoeshome.com/seatbelts/ The new site includes quick access to the pledge, training resources, PSA videos, list of 100% compliant departments, and current news stories. Have You Signed the International First Responder Seatbelt Pledge? Download  [ Read More ]

For the first time in the San Antonio FD’s history, 3 Firefighters (including a Captain) have been suspended for traveling at an unsafe speed and not buckling up while responding to a fire last year. Following this story, is another story below, about a Connecticut widow as well as Firefighters who have tried to sue each other over a crash of 2 responding apparatus. In San Antonio, Ladder 35 rolled over, seriously injured one  [ Read More ]

Benjamin Franklin once defined insanity as “repeating the same thing over and over, expecting different results.” Over the last century there has been little change in the ways that we are injuring and killing firefighters. Firefighters are still dying by being involved in apparatus crashes, becoming disoriented and running out of air, being caught in structural collapse, or becoming trapped by rapidly changing fire conditions. Based on 2,000,000 fires in  [ Read More ]