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10 Rebuilding 14 Guardian Policy at Work n 5 From the General President Our Memorial Local union officer gets job back n 7 From the General Proposal to Secretary-Treasurer reconstruct the 16 Fighting Back IAFF Fallen Fire Battling against state legislative n 9 Letters
Fighter Memorial assaults n 23 Local Scene reflects honor, pride and n 28 Across the IAFF community for n 42 Retirees families and 46 Never Forget the fallen n n 47 Last Alarm
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4 FIRE FIGHTER WINTER 2014 Strategy, Dedication and Persistence Get the Job Done
A fire scene is oen described as controlled chaos. But, since we lobbying for more than four years, we are trained in what to do when we arrive on scene, we hit the have been assured that — as medical first ground with a plan and engage. As circumstances warrant, we responders — our members will receive adapt. Even when the odds are against us, we keep working until vaccine prioritization along with other we get the job done. health care workers. As a direct result of e work this union does to protect and defend our members these IAFF lobby efforts, the Public Harold A. Schaitberger from those who want to destroy our rights and benefits is not so Health Agency of Canada has re-opened the different. On a number of fronts, this strategy has helped us win some Pandemic Plan for revision. important battles. ese and other legislative victories are a testament to what we can One of the best examples of how we do that in Washington, DC is achieve by staying engaged, even when it seems futile or nothing is the Public Safety Officers Benefit, which was signed into law by happening. President Gerald Ford in 1976. at brings me to the major battle that lies ahead: reforming the Affordable Care Act (ACA). We are not interested in playing partisan politics or ere are a number of provisions in this protecting a president’s legacy. is IAFF is interested in one law that will hurt our members. However, unlike many unions, the IAFF thing — making sure our members and their families have never endorsed this legislation. We fought — the quality of health care they deserve and have earned. and succeeded — in stopping proposals to tax the value of our members’ health care as Originally, our fight was to finally get a law passed that provided a income. And all along we told the Obama administration that the death benefit to the widows of fire fighters killed in the line of duty. so-called “Cadillac Tax” is a miserable idea that will hurt this nation’s e original legislation provided for a $50,000 benefit. fire fighters and paramedics. Over the years, we lobbied to win improvements to the legislation, But we are still le with a tremendously flawed program that and we’ve been tremendously successful. At different points, we have undercuts many of your current and future health care benefits. expanded eligibility to other family members, provided an inflation ere is no way to candy coat this. I’ll call it what it is — a escalator and added heart attacks, strokes and aneurysms to the law. boondoggle for insurance companies that could destroy We’ve also been very successful in increasing the benefit. Today, the employer-provided health care plans. e president and his PSOB benefit stands at $333,604.68. administration let us down, big time. I don’t care what the A much more recent example is how we worked to change what Democratic Party thinks, or what its leadership may think, we are once was a reality that law enforcement garnered the lion’s share of going to stand by our principles and call this administration out for federal dollars. It took decades, but now more grant money flows into turning their backs on us. fire service programs — including the Staffing for Adequate Fire and We will be battling for many years to repair the ACA and protect Emergency Response (SAFER) and the Assistance to Firefighters the benefits that we have all worked so hard to enjoy. (FIRE Act) — than local law enforcement initiatives. SAFER is e law places self-funded, self-administered and perhaps the best example of how a strategic approach, dedication and employer-provided health care plans at a competitive disadvantage persistence pay off in lobbying, as well. compared to commercial insurers. Aer working with legislators on the importance of such a bill, e reinsurance — or “belly button tax” — creates a three-year tax SAFER was introduced in March 2002 and passed in November 2003 burden in which every person covered by a self-insured health plan is as a living memorial to our 343 lost FDNY brothers from 9/11. subject to a $63 annual tax to subsidize commercial insurance Ironically, the legislation passed at the same time that Congress companies. It’s wrong and we are working to get it fixed. defunded the infamous Community Oriented Policing Services In 2018, the Cadillac tax — or excise tax — will be imposed on (COPS) program. health plans that provide comprehensive and quality coverage. If the Every year since the passage of SAFER, your union has had to law is not amended, a 40 percent excise tax will be imposed on plans work to beat back attempts by unfriendly legislators to kill our bill, that have a value greater than $10,200 for individual or $27,000 for while simultaneously we’ve been able to convince a majority in family plans. And, because of the way the ACA calculates future health Congress to pump billions of federal dollars into funding for the bill, care inflation costs, this tax will ultimately affect all of our plans. which has meant that your jurisdictions have been able to access If not addressed, these unintended consequences of the ACA will federal grants to increase staffing and comply with national standards diminish the benefits and increase the costs of your health care. for staffing. But, fighting lengthy battles on Capitol and Parliament Hill is When the economy tanked in 2008, this union pivoted and nothing new. All things come full circle. Protecting your health care amended the program through a series of waivers to provide “no benefits will be another epic battle. strings attached grants.” ose waivers enabled struggling We are not interested in playing partisan politics or protecting a communities to prevent layoffs of our members and to bring our president’s legacy. is IAFF is interested in one thing — making sure laid-off brothers and sisters back to work. our members and their families have the quality of health care they e IAFF won waiver authority in five consecutive federal budgets, deserve and have earned. and successfully incorporated waiver authority into statute when at’s why we are at work right now to fix these significant SAFER was re-authorized in 2012. Over the last five years, $1.9 billion problems — and we will not stop working until we get the job done. in SAFER funding has restored or protected thousands of jobs. And, just recently in Canada, we celebrated a huge legislative victory on the issue of pandemic preparedness. Aer nonstop
WINTER 2014 FROM THE GENERAL PRESIDENT 5 HONEYWELL FIRST RESPONDER PRODUCTS
6 FIRE FIGHTER WINTER 2014 IAFF 2014 Convention Will Be Here Before You Know It
Convention time is fast approaching, and we are very busy process requires approval by both preparing for the IAFF 52nd Convention in Cincinnati. I am the affiliate president and pleased to let you know that for the first time ever, credentials secretary-treasurer. If one is and registration for Convention will be entirely online! unavailable to complete the is project was not undertaken lightly. A request for credentialing process proposal was sent to a number of vendors with the capability of delegates/alternates will be unable creating a program that would integrate with our membership to be given their credentials to get database. Prototypes were designed and reviewed and, in the on the Convention floor. end, the contract was awarded to a company that not only has • To be designated a proxy-carrier, a extensive knowledge of our database, but has done a number of delegate must be credentialed and large projects for us over the years. eir experience also registered (paid) prior to being Thomas H. Miller includes creating an online credentialing system for the United selected. States Postal Workers. e General President, senior staff and I reviewed the As Convention nears, it’s also important to remind everyone prototype and the Executive Board approved moving forward. that if your local plans to submit a resolution, it can be done by As you might imagine, this has been a major effort by a number fax, email or mail by May 23. Just keep in mind that if you email of staff at headquarters, and they will be available to assist you or fax it, the original must still be submitted and received by with any questions or concerns as you navigate this new system. June 4. Censure resolutions must be received by May 15. Email As always, there are a number of important items to remind resolutions to gst@iaff.org. our Convention delegates about, but this year, more than ever, it All information related to the Convention is available on the is crucial for affiliate presidents and secretary-treasurers to Convention web site at www.iaffconvention2014.org . If you plan prepare for this change. to attend, check the web site to stay up to date. What affiliate presidents and secretary-treasurers need to do We will again put a number of Convention reports, including now: the Officers’ Reports, financial reports, resolutions, etc. on the • Read all Convention-related email communications. is is Convention web site. We hope this makes it more convenient for the only way Convention information is being disseminated you to take the information back home and share it with your to affiliates. members. • Be current in your per capita and EDF loans. In order to Pulling the Convention together requires a massive effort by access the online credential program, your local must be many people. But it also requires cooperation from all of you. So, current in per capita and EDF as of March 31, 2014. do your part to ensure things go smoothly. Convention will be • Know your IAFF web site login (or get one) by going to here before you know it! www.iaff.org . At the top le of the webpage is the link to either register or reset your login or password. See you in Cincinnati. • Keep your rosters updated (delegate counts are based on local membership between April 1, 2013 and March 31, 2014). We are unable to process roster changes made aer March 15, 2014. • Make sure your roster includes email addresses for all delegates and alternates. is will enable all delegates and IMPORTANT DATES alternates to receive instructions on registering for Convention. Otherwise, affiliate leadership will have to June 2014 All per capita and EDF loans must be paid contact them by telephone and provide instruction. through June 2014 to be seated at • Have your IAFF membership card or order one by emailing Convention. membership@iaff.org. Your membership card will allow you to collect your credentials in the fastest possible way. Do this May 23 All resolutions must be received by the sooner rather than later. It takes a minimum of 30 days to General Secretary-Treasurer get a new card. June 4 Originals of resolutions received by email If you have attended conventions in the past, there are several or fax must be received by the General significant changes that you should be aware of this year: Secretary-Treasurer • Credential delegates and alternates before arriving in Cincinnati. While we also strongly recommend that June 30 Online process for proxies and alternate attendees are registered (paid) prior to arriving, at the very proxies must be completed online by 5:00 least, have the credential part completed. Here’s why: is PM, EDT
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SAFER Staff Increase En route, we received several Realizing that I was trapped and by prior to our arrival. Many obstacles were updates that led us to believe this would myself, I dropped to my knees in the thrown at us that night. Approximately Dear President Schaitberger: be a working fire. We arrived moments center of the room and began 15 people were occupying the house Clackamas County, OR Local 1159 behind Engine Company 29, which preparation for calling a Mayday just as I and had chopped the bedrooms up to has just been awarded a Staffing for reported a single-family dwelling with had practiced a thousand times before. accommodate everyone. We had a Adequate Fire and Emergency Response fire showing from the side delta In hindsight, with everything around well-advanced basement fire in the (SAFER) grant to add six new fire basement windows. We reported to the me turning to chaos, my training surely middle of the night with reported fighters/paramedics, which will increase lettfirest floor to work with rEngine 29. s took over. With my hand on children trapped and difficulty in our workforce by 120 percent, meet During my initial size-up, it appeared the microphone, and my accessing the rear of the NFPA 1710 first response on fire calls as if the bedroom windows were in the Mayday prepared, I house/exterior basement and double our medic response within alpha quadrant. Just as I had entered, suddenly remembered entrance (due to the amount of the 360-square-mile ambulance area. we received reports that there were still something that cars in the driveway, and two Thanks to the IAFF Grants several children trapped inside. I Instructor Derek 6-foot tall fences). Luckily, Department and DHS for this followed the hose line until I found the Alkonis had said to me when chaos set in and much-needed award. hallway that led to the bedrooms. I came during our training. He everything went south, we Karl Koenig to a closed inward swinging bedroom explained that sometimes, subconsciously fell back on our Clackamas County Local 1159 door on the left. I attempted to open the when all else is failing and training and instincts. door to conduct the primary search, but falling apart around you, try to calm Since that night, I’ve run the scenario Thanks for Being There the door only opened about a foot or two yourself and just listen to your through my head a thousand times. I (we would later find that there was a environment. think back and realize that I should have Dear President Schaitberger: dresser behind the door, preventing it So that’s what I did. called a Mayday (and often!) prior to I would personally like to thank you from opening). My environment was surprisingly following the noise that led me to the I squeezed through the door and quiet. One thing that I could hear, from the bottom of my heart for the window — it could have always been began a left-handed search of the however, was the sound of a pump assistance to Miami Beach, FL Local cancelled. bedroom. While in the bedroom, I throttling up. The sound was distinct and 1510! The survival strategies, tactics, life encountered minimal heat and heavy coming from my right-hand side, near What really moved me the most was lessons and procedures learned in the smoke conditions, very similar to the the area where I had previously found when [you] took the time out of [your] Fire Ground Survival program, without a conditions I found in the hallway. the refrigerator. I returned there once hectic schedule to personally call me to doubt, kept me alive that morning. Unbeknownst to me, after I entered the again. This time, I felt behind the offer help in any way. There are many things that I have This showed me that we were not room, the bedroom door shut behind me. refrigerator and felt the inset of a During the search, I encountered items windowsill halfway up the wall. I was taken away from this call and have tried alone, and that the IAFF is truly “always to build on to become a better officer. on the frontline.” not so typical of a sleeping room, able to push the refrigerator over, stand including a dual-door refrigerator. I on top of it and begin venting what I now Looking back, I realize that my tactics Once again, the IAFF has proven to were not textbook executions of the FGS me and our local that you are there for began to question whether or not I was know was the side window. Once the still in a bedroom. window was vented and cleared, I stuck program, but any port in the storm will us in our time of need. do! Earlier I said, “luckily” everyone I cannot express how very blessed I As I was finishing my primary in the my head out to see one of the wagon bedroom, radio traffic from the first due drivers on the scene frantically signaling survived the incident — I now know that feel to be a part of this organization with luck had little to do with it and training such great leadership! engine officer to command was stating to me that it was time to come out. that there were heavy fire conditions on I executed a right-handed window everything. Adonis Garcia Donald Fletcher Jr. Miami Beach Local 1510 the first floor and that the fire was now hang and, with the assistance of that behind them. I tried to make my way driver, I dropped approximately 5 feet to Prince George’s County Local 1619 back to the hallway where I knew the the ground, landing on a lawnmower. Real-Life Fire Ground Survival hoseline and exit were. I hit all four Investigation revealed that all of the corners of the room and had no luck Dear President Schaitberger: family members had exited the structure finding the door that I thought I had left In March of 2010, I was selected to open. participate in what was then a pilot Once again, I hit all four corners of program the International was offering the room looking for the door, this time — a “train the trainer” class for what is keeping a hand high on the wall looking now known as the Fire Ground Survival for windows. During this attempt, the (FGS) program. first due engine officer gave traffic to Through this program, I learned many command that the first floor was being survival procedures and techniques that compromised and that they were are second to none. Being a certified backing out. The heat conditions in the instructor in this program, I have helped bedroom were steadily rising, visibility deliver the material to eight of our new was now at zero and I could see fire recruit classes (approximately 200 coming from one of the floor vents in the students). While teaching this program to corner. recruits, I keep the mindset that their I could feel my heart rate begin to repetitions are just as beneficial to me rise and my breathing accelerate as I as they are to them. Never did I think was coming to realize that I was in a bad that I would be the one using the skills. situation. I tried calming myself while During the early morning hours of once again searching for the door. I tried December 26, 2013, I was working as to convince myself that the door being the officer on Truck Company 26 in shut was good, because it was Prince George’s County, Maryland. We protecting me from the elements in the were dispatched as the first due truck to hallway. At this point, my body was in a a reported basement fire in a fight or flight response and my training single-family residence. began to take over.
WINTER 2014 FIRE FIGHTER 9 Rebuilding Our Memorial to the Fallen
e hallowed grounds of the IAFF Fallen Fire Fighter Memorial An important element of the proposed rebuild is to preserve the are a place where thousands gather every September to celebrate current names and provide additional space to add names. and honor the lives of IAFF members who have died in the line of Since the granite walls were erected in 1989 and in 2002, more duty during the past year. Hundreds more make private than 2,800 names of fallen members have been etched. Currently, pilgrimages throughout the year. the Memorial includes the names of the fallen since 1976. Local by “is memorial is very important to our members, the families of the local, the IAFF has researched every member killed in the line of fallen and to this union,” says General President Harold Schaitberger. duty since 1918 through to 1975, and those names (3,469 members) erefore, to ensure the integrity of the site remains intact for would be added to the new Memorial under the proposed plan. future generations of fire fighters and their families, the IAFF will e plan also calls for additional seating to accommodate the be putting forth a resolution at the 2014 Convention for families of the fallen during the annual Fallen Fire Fighter Memorial reconstructing the entire Memorial site. observance each September. Currently, the area seats 2,500. “We owe it to our members and the families to make sure the Attendance is typically 5,000, but reached 10,000 in 2002 aer 347 names of the fallen are never forgotten,” says Schaitberger. IAFF members made the ultimate sacrifice on September 11, 2001.
10 FIRE FIGHTER WINTER 2014 Renderings by Thomas and Thomas
FIRE FIGHTER 11 The Fallen Fire Fighter Memorial is a permanent remembrance of the courageous fire fighters and emergency medical personnel who have lost their lives in the line of duty. By ensuring these brave men and women are never forgotten, the Memorial provides support to the families of these heroes who gave their lives in service to others. An annual Memorial observance is held each year in September in Colorado Springs, Colorado. The Fallen Fire Fighter Memorial, one of the funds within the IAFF Charitable Foundation, was founded in 1976 and the first granite walls were erected in 1989.
e IAFF has called on Colorado urban landscape and architecture design firm omas and omas to develop a plan to rebuild the site to meet current needs, as well as provide for expansion. omas and omas has assessed the land and environmental factors, considered the need to preserve the statue and other elements and presented several proposals of varying levels of change. e proposed plans include overarching themes of family, honor, pride and community. In addition, the entry would be more prominent and include more prestigious signage and landscaping to emphasize the park’s integrity. e goal is for members and families to feel they are honoring the fallen the minute they arrive at the Memorial. “e new Memorial will, as it always has, Additionally, the Fallen Fire Fighter Memorial would be belong to the IAFF membership.” reconfigured with Pikes Peak as the backdrop so families face the statue of a fire fighter descending a ladder holding a child. e shi would also allow the space to accommodate more than 5,000 seats. e final element is the Guardians — statues sculpted as e proposals also call for new granite walls of varying sizes Honor Guard members. ese statues are designed to stand in the and heights to be raised in arcs around the main statue, and periphery as quiet overseers of guests and honorees. include all of the names etched in previous years with room for a “e new Memorial would, as it always has, belong to the IAFF total of 11,500. membership,” says Schaitberger. e IAFF estimates it would take up to 30 more years before e IAFF estimates the cost to complete the project at $3.5 these walls are filled. e former honor walls would then be million. repurposed for special paving to be known as the Family Ring to If approved by delegates at Convention, the rebuild would symbolize and embrace the families during the annual begin immediately following the September 2014 service and be observance. completed in time for the September 2015 observance. n
In case you missed it… Thousands Gather for Moving Memorial Service IAFF General President Harold Schaitberger honored the lives of 157 fire fighters and paramedics who died in the line of duty at the 27th Annual Fallen Fire Fighter Memorial service in Colorado Springs, September 21, 2013. Read more about the annual Memorial Observance at www.iaff.org/13News/092113FFFM.htm . e 2014 Fallen Fire Fighter Memorial Service is September 20. n
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In a case handled under the IAFF Guardian Policy against the Village of Key Biscayne, Florida, an arbitrator decided that Local 3638 Secretary Jose Marti deserved his job back after he was wrongfully terminated in violation of the parties’ labor-management agreement.
On August 5, 2013, the Key Biscayne fire chief and Village assistance moving her father down the stairs. e fire fighter manager fired Jose Marti for allegedly failing to respond to a instructed the woman to call 9-1-1 for proper notification and resident’s telephone call for assistance. But, the record of dispatch. e fire fighter then told Marti to expect an alarm. No evidence at the arbitration hearing showed that the real reason alarm was issued. Believing the problem had been resolved, for his discharge was the leadership role Secretary Marti Marti’s crew did not respond to the initial call. A few hours later, performed in negotiations for a new contract. however, the woman called back asking why EMS had never Marti had an exemplary, 20-year career in the Key Biscayne responded to help her father. e facts later revealed that the Fire Department, and held the position of Captain for 14 years. woman’s 9-1-1 call was not properly handled by the dispatching He earned an associate’s degree in fire science, a bachelor’s degree center and, consequently, no alarm was issued in the fire in organizational leadership and a master’s degree in executive department. management. He graduated from the National Fire Academy’s Executive Officer Program, became certified as a fire fighter and paramedic, and now serves as a training and life support “e best application of the IAFF Guardian instructor and runs an American Heart Association Training Policy is to get a local officer’s job back, with Center. e arbitrator emphasized in his favorable decision, “Jose back pay, when he or she is terminated for Marti has a tremendous amount of experience as a Captain stepping up and leading one of our affiliates.” and is one of the most highly educated employees in the entire department.” IAFF General President Harold Schaitberger says, “e best In the meantime, difficult contract negotiations continued application of the IAFF Guardian Policy is to get a local officer’s between the local and the Village. In a bargaining session on May job back, with back pay, when he or she is terminated for 9, 2013, the fire chief stormed out of the room aer exchanging stepping up and leading one of our affiliates.” harsh words with Marti. ree weeks later — and one month Local 3638 and the Village were involved in contentious aer the non-response incident — the chief commenced an contract negotiations for more than a year. e Village has tried investigation and chose to place Marti on administrative leave, to switch fire fighters from a defined benefit pension to a 401(k) purportedly for failing to respond to a call for service. system; Local 3638 has opposed the move. Secretary Marti had A pre-termination hearing was held on July 31, 2013 and, on been the most vocal local representative during negotiations, and August 5, 2013, based on the recommendation of the chief, the the chief did not like the forceful points made by Marti during Village manager issued a final decision terminating Marti. In the bargaining sessions. decision, the Village manager stated that it is standard procedure to On April 30, 2013, Captain Marti was on duty when another respond to calls whether or not there has been an alarm and that fire fighter answered a phone call from a local resident asking for Marti acknowledged that his crew should have responded to the call.
14 FIRE FIGHTER WINTER 2014 No fire department standard operating procedures existed had not taken any corrective actions to prevent future, similar indicating that department employees are to wait for an alarm to incidents. e arbitrator explained, “It is curious, and perhaps respond to a call, or to respond to a call regardless of whether telling, that other than terminating the Grievant, the Village took there has been an alarm. Other fire fighters, who previously were no action to determine why the dispatch error occurred or what disciplined for not responding to actual alarms, were not corrective actions needed to be taken by the Village to ensure terminated. Instead, those fire fighters received only written that a similar dispatch error did not occur in the future.” warnings. e arbitrator also found that the Village’s actions in waiting Local 3638 filed a grievance challenging Marti’s termination nearly a month to place Captain Marti on administrative leave under three articles of its labor contract: (1) the reason given for revealed that his alleged transgression was not so serious as to his termination was pretextual, and was really due to his union warrant termination. e arbitrator stressed, “Had the activity; (2) there was no just cause for his termination; and (3) department believed that the Grievant’s actions constituted gross the extreme discipline was not progressive. misconduct on April 30, 2013, meriting eventual termination, it IAFF General Counsel Tom Woodley provided representation surely could and would have placed him on leave immediately in arbitration to get Marti his job back. and not waited nearly a month to take that action.” Aer a hearing, the arbitrator issued a decision on January 25, e chief’s belated investigation and the resulting discharge of 2014, finding that Local Secretary Jose Marti was wrongfully Secretary Marti demonstrated that it was the chief’s anger over terminated in violation of the parties’ labor contract. In his an intervening bargaining session that really led to the firing. Opinion and Award, the arbitrator summarized the facts Lastly, the arbitrator decided that the Village failed to follow supporting the claims of various violations of the labor progressive discipline as is required under the collective agreement by the Village, including the assertion that the bargaining agreement. discharge was motivated by anti-union retaliation. e arbitrator As a remedy for the wrongful termination, the employer must based his ultimate ruling on the evidence that showed there was reinstate Local 3638 Secretary Marti to his Captain’s position, no “just cause” for firing Marti. with full seniority and backpay for all lost earnings and other Specifically, the arbitrator determined that the failure of the benefits up to the date of his reinstatement. e arbitrator found department to respond to the resident on April 30, 2013, was the that a 30-day suspension was the most discipline that should result of a “perfect storm” of circumstances that mitigated against have been imposed, so the backpay and benefits period is from placing complete blame on the shoulders of Captain Marti. September 4, 2013, to the date Secretary Marti is fully restored to Further, the arbitrator placed substantial importance on the fact his job. Marti was reinstated to his Captain’s job on February 3. that the resident’s 9-1-1 call was mishandled by the dispatch IAFF 12th District Vice President Larry Osborne notes, “is center. positive result should serve notice that, as IAFF members, we In addition, the arbitrator adopted General Counsel’s stand solidly together to support a local officer and right a argument that the Village’s behavior demonstrated that Captain wrong.” n Marti’s conduct did not merit termination because the Village
“is positive result should serve notice that, as IAFF members, we stand solidly together to support a local officer and right a wrong.”
WINTER 2014 FIRE FIGHTER 15 FIGHT ING BACK Against State Legislative Assaults
e broad fight over the rights and fairly e switch also resulted in a bleak future to change the state constitution to allow earned benefits of IAFF members and other for fire fighters hired aer July 1, 2006. public retirement system benefits or employer public employees is continuing into 2014 Employers pay 5 percent into a 401(k)-style contributions to be changed at any time. across numerous states and in Canada, even plan and another 3 percent into a Health Current constitutional language protects as the economy slowly improves. Reimbursement Account (HRA). e pension benefits from being reduced or Affiliate leaders across North America are employee also contributes 8 percent. impaired. fighting hard to protect members’ defined IAFF members in Alaska — who do not However, HCR 2001’s sponsor has put the benefit retirement plans, collective bargaining receive Social Security — who retire aer initiative on hold pending the results of rights and defending against a multi-state working 25 years will have only 31 percent of several unsettled lawsuits regarding the push to boost the number of Right-to-Work their income. And that’s if the stock market constitutionality of SB 1609, which passed in states. does well. 2011. Among other things, SB 1609 Affiliates are doing all they can to defend Many state legislators, including those who significantly increased member contributions members against threatening legislative initially supported the move to defined and cut cost-of-living adjustments for proposals — working statehouse halls to kill contribution plans, are starting to realize that retirees. bills in committee or improve language, this system is not only bad for fire fighters, e state Supreme Court has ruled linking arms with state labor coalitions and but for everyone. Accordingly, HR 247 has at regarding one lawsuit, Fields v. Elected getting behind candidates who respect fire least five anti-union co-sponsors. Officials’ Retirement Plan (EORP) . e court fighters and the IAFF. Yet, in some states, said that it is unconstitutional to reduce affiliates are finding that the best defense is a “While our members are retiree benefits; therefore, those who retired good offense. before SB 1609 was passed will have their “While our members are always on the always on the frontline benefits recalculated by the old formula and frontline protecting their communities, this protecting their communities, will be owed a retroactive check reflecting union remains steadfast in fighting hard to the unpaid amounts. Of course, this protect our members from these vicious and this union remains steadfast dramatically increases the unfunded pension unending politically motivated attacks,” says in fighting hard to protect fire liability. General President Harold Schaitberger. fighters from these vicious Other lawsuits are still pending, but it is speculated that the court will hand down Alaska and unending politically similar rulings in these cases. is will likely is could be the year that Alaska’s state motivated attacks.” provide legislative momentum to put HCR workers, including IAFF members, get their 2001 on the ballot. defined benefit retirement plans back. A bill Meanwhile, the Goldwater Institute is also (HR 247) proposing the switchback has been Arizona on the warpath on the issue of union release referred to the State House Labor and An all-out anti-labor assault is being time in Phoenix. On behalf of two citizens, Commerce Committee and will be subject to launched in Arizona by groups such as the the Institute successfully argued a court case several hearings before it goes to the floor for Goldwater Institute and the Arizona Chapter to implement a preliminary injunction on the debate and vote. of Free Enterprise Club. e two groups have 2010-2012 Memorandum of Understanding “In conjunction with the Alaska Public made inroads by helping to elect (MOU) between the City of Phoenix and the Pension Coalition, the Professional Fire anti-employee/anti-labor politicians to the Phoenix Law Enforcement Association Fighters of Alaska (PFFA) has been working to state legislature and using the court system to (PLEA). A second preliminary injunction was go back to a workable system ever since we lost their advantage. granted for the 2012-2014 MOU. PLEA is it,” says PFFA President Tom Wescott. “As we “is is the biggest full-scale, appealing. continue to see a poor market performance for well-coordinated attack that I have ever seen,” is became an IAFF Guardian Policy the current defined contribution plan, the says Professional Fire Fighters of Arizona case when the City of Phoenix extended the argument becomes easier for returning to the (PFFA) President Tim Hill. application of the preliminary injunction to defined benefit plan.” ese groups are focusing on pensions and any other unions with which it has MOUs In 2006, during Governor Frank dues deduction. e PFFA is working hard to authorizing union release time. Murkowski’s administration, state legislators counteract these efforts. Additionally, the Goldwater Institute may held a special session to address concerns Some state House members are supporting challenge the fire fighters’ entitlement to about the unfunded liability. e session the placement of House Concurrent release time. As a first step, Phoenix Local resulted in the move to a defined contribution Resolution (HCR) 2001 on the November 493 will file an amicus brief in support of plan for new hires. 2014 ballot. e ballot measure will ask voters the PLEA’s appeal.
16 FIRE FIGHTER WINTER 2014 California President Robert Sapien. “is is why the Coalition building and membership unions are asking the Public Employee education are proving to be very effective Relations Board to review the law and the tools in warding off serious anti-labor attacks process that was used to put it on the ballot.” in California. If things go labor’s way, the law will be “e California Professional Firefighters overturned. (CPF) is part of a broad-based coalition which makes it a priority to stay actively Florida involved in every labor issue to beat back Leaders in the Florida state legislature have attacks from the right,” explains CPF laid out plans for 2014 and, once again, public President Lou Paulson. is coalition helped pensions are targeted. defeat Proposition 32 in 2013, a measure One bill, SB 246, would overhaul how local designed to cripple the ability of labor groups governments pay for police and fire fighter to raise funds and their voices in political pensions. Lawmakers are hoping to have action efforts. better luck moving this bill through the But just as important as being a part of any legislature aer a similar measure died in the coalition is to keep members informed about House last year. the issues. “If we keep our members in the e proposal, approved in January by one loop, they can have intelligent debates with of three committees considering the measure, their friends and neighbors who are also would require retirement plans that are voters,” says Paulson. underfunded by more than 20 percent to use e latest potential battle came from San half of any increases in insurance premium Jose Mayor Chuck Reed’s push to put taxes to pay down the deficit. statewide public pension reform on the e bill appears to have more momentum ballot. His measure would change the in the legislature as several cities have California constitution to give state and local reported underfunding. e Florida governments the authority to open up Professional Firefighters (FPF) has been contracts at any time to make changes to working behind the scenes to at least soen retirement plans, including reducing benefits. the measure. “If the bill dies, the proposal Mayor Reed and his supporters need a would return to the current interpretation little more than 800,000 signatures from by the governor, which would be extremely registered voters by June 5 to have it included damaging to local plan benefits with no on the November 2014 ballot. However, it’s minimum benefit level. is is clearly a unlikely that this will happen because Reed’s slippery slope so the FPF is taking a campaign ceased signature gathering to focus do-no-harm approach,” says FPF President on challenging the ballot language assigned James Tolley. by California Attorney General Kamala Meanwhile, the legislature has requested Harris. two actuarial studies on the impact of hybrid e language says Reed’s measure and cash balance plans for new employees in “eliminates constitutional protections for the state retirement system. e completed vested pension and retiree health care studies are expected prior to the end of this benefits for current public employees, legislative session. Tolley says lawmakers have including teachers, nurses and peace officers indicated that his members would be soen the effects to reduce pension benefits if bargaining fails.” excluded from legislation that would likely should the bill move e mayor claims the wording is call for a cash-balance plan or hybrid plan for forward.” inaccurate and paints his proposal in an new hires. “e so-called carve out is for unfavorable light. He filed his challenge in ‘special risk,’ however, some of our members Illinois Sacramento Superior Court. are in the regular class that would be included Illinois members are continuing to fight Reed passed a similar initiative in San Jose in the cash balance or hybrid plan .” against efforts to reduce pension benefits. called Measure B. But in December 2013, a e FPF opposes cash balance plans on In December, SB1, aimed at addressing an Superior Court judge agreed with San Jose principle because they fall far short of defined estimated $100 billion pension funding deficit Local 230 and the City’s other unions that benefit plans aer retirement. Tolley also for the statewide pension funds, became law. provisions to make employees pay more for believes that if retirement benefits are e measure cuts retiree cost-of-living pensions violated their rights. reduced for new hires, changes for other increases but lowers the amounts current Measure B presents the most problems for employee classes would likely follow. employees contribute. It guarantees that the Tier II employees, which do not include IAFF “We are trying to be neutral here and not state makes its contributions on time, sets up members, but affects police. upset people,” says Tolley, noting that an voluntary 401(k)-style plans and raises the e truth is that San Jose’s pension system anti-worker majority controls the governor’s retirement age. is healthy. “ere is no reason for our system mansion and both the state House and Although almost all IAFF members were to be under attack other than it is part of the Senate. “We don’t believe this change is carved out of SB1, the Affiliated Fire Fighters anti-fire fighter agenda that we are seeing in a needed and are opposing it while at the of Illinois (AFFI) joined with the “We are lot of places nationwide,” says Local 230 same time keeping doors open to One Coalition” to file suit to nullify the law
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scheduled to take effect June 1. “Our coalition firmly stands by the argument that Senate Bill 1 is Fighting Back in Canada a crystal clear example of stripping away pension benefits that were included as deferred compensation for public workers. We look In Canada, the IAFF has been busy helping joined forces to launch a judicial review of forward to a favorable ruling in the courts,” says local and provincial affiliates fight back an arbitrator’s decision to award members of AFFI President Pat Devaney. against an increasing number of attacks Ajax Local 192 a 24-hour shi. In Some state lawmakers also have their sights set from employers, as well as against organized December, an Ontario Superior Court panel on the Chicago Firefighters Pension Fund and the attacks on public sector unions at the dismissed the municipalities’ case and 292 downstate and suburban pension funds national level on wages, benefits and awarded the local $3,750 in costs. throughout the state. As bills targeting those funds pensions and the role IAFF members play in At the provincial level, the Saskatchewan take shape, the AFFI will continue to work to the delivery of EMS. Professional Fire Fighters Association protect the hard-earned benefits of its members. In Ontario , the IAFF has assisted Owen (SPFFA) is fighting against Bill 85, a Meanwhile, AFFI is promoting a bill, SB Sound Local 531 and Midland Local 1581, regressive piece of legislation that upends 1681, that would encourage the consolidation of which are both fighting back against local decades of labour peace in the province with emergency service delivery and ensure that it is community groups that are mindlessly radical changes to labour laws, including done responsibly. “ere are a lot of places calling on their municipal councils to cut stripping away access to binding arbitration where consolidation or cooperative service frontline fire department capabilities from the province’s three smallest IAFF delivery makes sense and we want to be involved without any credible analysis of the effect on locals, which are already among the lowest in deciding where and how to go about it,” public safety or insurance premiums. paid in Canada. Devaney says. In Ontario and other provinces, Bill 85 was passed in the Saskatchewan consultants who charge $400 or more an legislature in May 2013 and is expected to Iowa hour are coaching municipal councils to lay come into force sometime in 2014. In Iowa, the bi-annual review of pension off fire fighters as thinly veiled retaliation In Alberta, affiliates are working to limit benefits/costs by committee is set to begin this against what they wrongly perceive as a the damage of a vicious attack on public legislative session. broken arbitration system that favours sector pensions by the province’s Progressive e state run retirement program is employees over employers. Conservative government, despite the fact currently funded at 79 percent. With a 21 In Kitchener, Ontario, the City Council the pensions plans are in good financial percent unfunded liability, Governor Terry eliminated four fire fighter positions during shape. In British Columbia , the arbitration Branstad says he wants reform. “With attacks its budget process last year, not because of system is also under attack and in New on pensions happening across the country, it is any financial crisis or risk assessment but — Brunswick , pension reform has affected an issue we always have to watch closely, but as the city boldly stated in a press release — several affiliates. In Newfoundland our sources in the House and Senate tell us not “to send a message to the province and Labrador , the provincial government to expect any official pension reform proposed [OPFFA] that the arbitration process for refuses to enact presumptive cancer this year,” says Iowa Professional Fire Fighters emergency services is not sustainable.” legislation despite the fact studies link cancer President Rick Scofield. e Ontario Professional Fire Fighters to the profession and the coverage exists in Association responded, calling out the City virtually every other Canadian jurisdiction. Kansas for playing politics with public safety. e At the national level, the IAFF is an active e Kansas State Council of Fire Fighters IAFF has also helped Windsor, ON Local participant in Canadian Labour Congress (KSCFF) had a very successful 2013, and 2014 is 455, Woodstock, ON Local 477, Toronto, (CLC) initiatives such as “Together Fairness looking good as well. ON Local 3888, Rocky View County, AB Works ,” a campaign designed to educate all KSCFF President Bob Wing says, “e Local 4794, Penticton, BC Local 1399, Saint stakeholders about the vital contributions governor and the legislature are leaving us alone John’s, NB Local 771 and others fight back workers make to society and the economy, for the second year in a row, and we are fine with against cuts to frontline fire protection. and individual CLC campaigns such as the that.” In too many cases, municipal councils are lobby against Bill C-377, which proposes ere has been some movement in the making politically motivated cuts to fire onerous financial reporting requirements for legislature to replace state pensions with protection — cuts that save the average Canadian unions. 401(k)-style plans for new hires. is measure taxpayer pennies but increase response e IAFF also supports the Broadbent would not affect IAFF members but the KSCFF is times and significantly reduce public safety. Institute, a non-partisan organization that making it known that it does not support defined IAFF affiliates are pointing to the strives to offset anti-worker and anti-union contribution plans in any form. importance of public safety, the rhetoric with positive messaging about the e KSCFF is also working with lawmakers sustainability of a skilled and effective public contributions of workers and the and the governor to strengthen existing service and the value of full-time fire socio-economic importance of a strong presumptive laws regarding heart, lung and services, which respond in minutes to middle class. respiratory illnesses. virtually any emergency for less than $1 a In addition, the IAFF has responded day per household. against poorly researched and inflammatory Missouri In Alberta and Ontario, municipalities opinion pieces in a number of Canadian e Missouri State Council of Fire Fighters have wasted hundreds of thousands of newspapers and magazines. For example, an (MSCFF) must contend with legislative attacks on taxpayers’ dollars fighting against the April 2013 article in MacLean’s Magazine union dues in their paychecks, as well as a 24-hour shi, despite the fact that it’s proven falsely implied that fire fighters are the new determined effort to make Missouri the next safe and doesn’t cost taxpayers anything. In “upper class” with average salaries of Right-to-Work state. 2013, a group of Ontario municipalities $100,000.
WINTER 2014 19 Anti-union legislators maintain a House Speaker Tim Jones is considering a Kelley and MSCFF Legislative Director veto-proof majority in both chambers of the plan to amend the Right-to-Work bill, HB Mark Habbas expect the fight to fend off General Assembly, so Governor Jay Nixon has 1099, to turn it into a vote-of-the-people Right-to-Work and paycheck protection will limited power to stop anti-labor legislation. referendum to be added to the November be expensive and require close contact with “Right now we are doing everything we can election ballot. state lawmakers to educate them on the issue. to kill these bills quietly and behind the Kelley notes that this tactic was attempted in scenes,” says MSCFF President Tony Kelley. “A the late 1970s but failed because Missouri Montana paycheck protection bill passed by the voters were much more sympathetic to labor. If e Montana State Council of Fire Fighters legislature would be devastating to IAFF locals Right-to-Work is put to a referendum, Kelley (MSCFF) is joining the Montana State across the state. is poses the biggest threat fears voters would likely approve it and public AFL-CIO in its effort to prevent two harmful to our membership.” employees will lose more ground in the state. ballot measures from passing.
Affiliates Ready to Send Incumbent Governors Packing behind Cuyahoga County Executive Ed FitzGerald, a Democrat who has made reinvestment in Ohio communities a key e November election offers voters in (PFFM) is endorsing U.S. Representative plank of his candidacy. many states a chance to reconsider the Mike Michaud. Polling of the candidates ballots they cast for governor in 2010, has changed little since the campaign got Pennsylvania decisions that helped elect several underway. A November 2013 Public Policy Pennsylvania Governor Tom Corbett is labor-hostile governors who used their Polling survey put Michaud out front with running for re-election and while the first terms to aggressively chip away at 38 percent, LePage at 36 and Independent Pennsylvania Professional Fire Fighters IAFF members’ rights and benefits. candidate Eliot Cutler at 15 percent. Association (PFFAA) has not yet announced Among the 36 gubernatorial races this an endorsement, the PPFFA is looking long year, affiliates are targeting several Michigan and hard at the candidates running on the incumbents for their nasty attacks on their Incumbent Governor Rick Snyder is Democratic side. members and other public employees, running for reelection. In 2012, the labor In early February, the PPFFA interviewed vetting candidates and plotting to community tried to pass a statewide both State Treasurer Rob McCord and U.S. campaign hard. referendum to add collective bargaining to Representative Allyson Schwartz who are the state’s constitution and failed. en, the running in the Democratic primary. e Florida legislature threw salt into the wound and PPFFA will continue their interview process Incumbent Rick Scott is running for passed Right-to-Work. with other candidates before making an re-election and he is no friend to labor. e Snyder also in December 2012 signed an endorsement. Florida Professional Firefighters (FPF) will emergency manager law that allows the “While Corbett did sign off on a cancer likely endorse former governor Charlie Crist. state to appoint emergency managers with presumption bill, he has also said if a Scott made pension reform a key piece of broad authority over budgets, including the Right-to-Work bill came to his desk he his campaign for governor in 2010, and once ability to scrap collective bargaining would sign it, and said the same thing about in office signed a law mandating 3 percent agreements. changing binding arbitration. Also, he employee contributions to the state pension In Detroit, under an emergency manager supports pension reform that could be fund. ere’s little doubt that Scott supports — from one of the nation’s most anti-union detrimental to our members,” says PPFFA current efforts in the state legislature to enact law firms — the City filed for bankruptcy, President Art Martynuska. new and detrimental changes to the pensions which now threatens Detroit members’ of IAFF members and other public workers. pensions and benefits. Wisconsin e former health care executive is Former U.S. Representative Mark e Professional Fire Fighters of extremely unpopular in the Sunshine State. A Schauer is running as a Democrat. Schauer, Wisconsin (PFFW) is looking for a governor recent poll places him seven points behind who served in Congress from 2009 to 2011, who cares about its members aer nearly a announced challenger, Charlie Crist, who has publically stated that, if elected, he will full term in office for Scott Walker. switched parties to become a Democrat. repeal Right-to-Work. PFFW, which had not endorsed a e FPF will begin evaluating all statewide candidate as of mid-February, was expected candidates, including gubernatorial Ohio to meet with Democratic challenger Mary candidates in June during the FPF e Ohio Association of Professional Burke, a businesswoman whose father Convention. Fire Fighters (OAPFF) is focused on taking created Trek Bicycle. out Kasich, whose effort to end collective Walker, who signed anti-collective Maine bargaining in the state ended in stinging bargaining legislation and later survived a Governor Paul LePage is running for defeat for him and a stirring victory for bruising recall fight, will be a formidable re-election and his antagonism towards unions. candidate to take down, says PFFW unions is well publicized. During his tenure, “We intend to take Kasich out for trying to President Mahlon Mitchell. LePage pushed pension reform, proposed take us out,” says OAPFF President Mark “Right now Walker is taking a $1 billion loosening child labor laws and ordered the Sanders. “We will make sure our members budget surplus and doling much of it out in removal of a mural in the Maine Department do not forget his attack on collective tax breaks. But those handouts are going to of Labor building that celebrates the state’s bargaining rights and that he doesn’t get hurt the middle class,” says Mitchell. “Our rich labor tradition. another chance to take a shot at us.” resolve has not changed. We want a governor e Professional Fire Fighters of Maine e OAPFF is throwing its support who cares about fire fighters.”
20 FIRE FIGHTER WINTER 2014 Both proposed state statutes were put on says NYSPFFA President Michael the ballot by the state legislature. One would McManus. “You know how it goes — in an change the deadline for late voter registration election year they pat you on the back, and from poll closing on Election Day to 5:00 then the next year they kick you in the pants.” p.m. on the Friday before Election Day. e McManus expects unfriendly lawmakers other would establish a “top-two” primary will try once again to end the Triborough election system. Montana’s “top-two” system Amendment of the Taylor Law, which would apply to partisan state office elections. prohibits employers from altering expired “e first would not only infringe on the labor contracts until a new contract is signed. citizens’ right to vote, but it would also hinder McManus is confident this effort will stall. our ability to ensure that our supporters voice e NYSPFFA is joining and promoting a their opinion at the polls,” says MSCFF new tactic for generating revenue for President Joel Fassbinder. municipal services. Working with municipal e second ballot measure would create an leaders across the state, the NYSPFFA seeks to open primary system with the top vote getters raise revenues from tax-exempt groups moving on to the general election, regardless such as colleges and universities and other And, anti-pension of party affiliation. Historically, candidates nonprofits. lawmakers in Pennsylvania are backed by progressives have done well in the New York members are disappointed that not giving up, even aer Governor Tom state because a number of third-party Governor Andrew Cuomo in December 2013 Corbett’s pension reform push failed to gain candidates are on the ballot. Republicans vetoed Senate Bill 5091 that would have made traction last year. HB 1581 would establish a believe that by switching to the “top-two” an important fix to the state’s multi-tiered cash balance plan for newly hired police and election system, their nominees will fare pension system. e bill would have allowed fire fighters. better in the general election. certain members of the New York State Police “e anti-labor opposition is well-funded “is does not represent our state well,” and Fire Retirement Fund the option of this year in Pennsylvania, but we are standing says Fassbinder. “e general election could joining a non-contributory plan. ese up to them and will not let them succeed,” have two candidates from the same party members — fire fighters and police hired says Martynuska. rather than two opposing parties.” between July 1, 2009 and January 1, 2010 — Voters will decide these two ballot through no fault of their own were le with a Tennessee measures in November 2014. weaker, lower-tier retirement plan when the In Tennessee, members face numerous multi-tiered system was enacted. threats to their rights and benefits during the New Jersey Cuomo also vetoed Senate Bill 4650, which current legislative session that began in While New Jersey Governor Chris Christie would have required fire officers in New York January and runs through April. dominated national political news this winter City to receive 80 additional hours of training e Tennessee Professional Fire Fighters as the “Bridge-gate” scandal threatened to on fire and building construction codes. Association (TPFFA) was successful in sink his presidential aspirations, the Cuomo in his veto message urged the union blocking passage of Senate Bill 1465, which Professional Firefighters of New Jersey and New York City Mayor Bill De Blasio to would establish a process for financially (PFANJ) is fighting Christie for many other reach an agreement on the level of training distressed cities under home rule (about a reasons. needed. dozen cities, including Memphis) to be taken In his state-of-the-state speech in January, over by state officials who could then levy Christie made it clear that he does not care Pennsylvania taxes and pay off debt as they see fit. about the professional fire fighters in his state. e Keystone State is shaping up to be a Two other bills aim to strengthen Most notably, the governor suggested he key labor battleground, and the Pennsylvania Right-to-Work laws. Both Senate Bill 1661 would rather not make required payments in Professional Fire Fighters Association and Senate Bill 1662 would criminalize the state’s pension system — a requirement (PPFFA) is in the thick of the fight to protect certain union activities, including picketing. codified into a law he signed two years ago. its members and stand with other unions to Another threatening bill, Senate Bill 2079, Christie also signaled his intent to do away defeat corporate interests. would require all cities to fully fund their with civil service protections, which PFANJ PPFFA members and other public pension obligations within five years. Once President Dominick Marino says employees on January 28 led a raucous rally the bill is enacted, local governments would demonstrates that the governor wants to turn inside the State Capitol in Harrisburg to have the legal authority to change retirement New Jersey into a Right-to-Work state. protest a ra of bills designed to cripple labor. benefits at any time for public employees. “We will not sit back and allow this PPFFA President Art Martynuska says his TPFFA President James Mitchell is governor to demonize and attack our members were at the forefront of the protest concerned about each of these measures, but members and our profession without a fight,” that was so big security was forced to close is hopeful about tying up some of them in Marino says. “We have always negotiated and lock the doors due to overcapacity. committee. fairly. He has never negotiated fairly.” Several bills introduced take a direct shot On a positive front, the TPFFA is making at IAFF members’ rights, including SB 1111, headway on adding Hepatitis C to the current New York which would amend the Firemen Collective HIV presumption law. Mitchell is confident it e New York State Professional Fire Bargaining Act for the first time since its can clear the House, but the Senate will be Fighters Association (NYSPFFA) is enjoying inception in the 1960s, adding new more difficult. relative quiet as most lawmakers are focused burdensome procedures and restrictions. more on politicking than legislating. Another bill, HB 1507, would end payroll Washington “is is an election year, so we don’t expect deductions for union dues and political Some Washington state senators are taking a much in the way of attacks in the legislature,” contributions. page from the American Legislative WINTER 2014 FIRE FIGHTER 21 Exchange Council (ALEC) and submitting will make it out of the Senate as the House legislative session. But that did not stop various proposed legislation that, if earned and the governor are labor-friendly.” some state House members from enough support, would reduce workers Fox says further that the political introducing HB 142 which, if passed, would compensation and pensions. Other bills that environment is friendly enough to allow the have eliminated binding arbitration. are circulating attack public sector unions, WSCFF to champion its own legislation to “Our members are the only ones in the including their ability to collect union dues make levy funding more reliable and staffing state who have collective bargaining, so we and to keep contract negotiations and other less at risk. Washington members are have to be prepared to be on the defensive,” union business private. proposing to eliminate a super majority for says Federated Fire Fighters of Wyoming “ese anti-labor bills are spreading in EMS levy renewals with a more reasonable (FFFWY) President Joe Fender. “With the Senate because two Democrats crossed simple majority requirement. assistance from the IAFF, Wyoming State the aisle to caucus with the Republicans,” AFL-CIO and other labor groups, we were says Washington State Council of Fire Wyoming able to kill this legislation quickly.” Fighters (WSCFF) President Kelly Fox. In Wyoming, the state legislature was set During a budget session, a non-budget “However, it is unlikely that any of these bills to focus on the budget during its 20-day bill needs a two-thirds majority vote to be heard. e FFFWY needed to secure 21 “nay” votes to kill it — and got 28. e support of state Representative Lee Filer was crucial. If HB 142 had secured enough votes to be heard, it would have gone to the House Labor, Health and Social Service Committee where Filer is a member. Filer was able to get enough committee votes against HB 142 to prevent it from going to the House floor for consideration. is was enough to convince even one of the bill’s co-sponsors (also the committee chair) to be one of the “nay” votes. On the day of the vote, 20 FFFWY members became a convincing presence in the state House as Representative Glenn Moniz, a retired member of Laramie Local 946, spoke in favor of voting down the bill.
Federal Fire Fighters Union release — or official time — is an ongoing issue for federal fire fighters nationwide. Four bills are making the rounds in Congress that seek to limit union leaders’ ability to represent employees at hearings, grievances and other representational matters while on duty. Two of the bills would increase disclosure requirements. e others would give agency managers more power to limit the number of hours allowed by stripping the Federal Labor Relations Authority of its ability to review agency decisions on the issue. Proponents of these pieces of legislation say official time is not a good use of tax dollars. Still, these legislative proposals will not likely garner enough support for final passage. “Official time has been a hot topic for many years, but lately it seems some congressional members are making the initial steps to break representation of federal workers,” says IAFF 16th District Vice President Jim Johnson. n
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PHOTO CREDIT: IAN MCALPINE-QMI AGENCY Kingston Fire Fighters Protect City From Massive Inferno
A plume of smoke and fire rising over the was no sense of fear because of the way City of Kingston, Ontario, interrupted the incident command structured the response. routine bustle of a Tuesday aernoon one A crane operator perched above the site week before Christmas and signalled the start had to climb out to the end of the unit’s of a day that won’t soon be forgotten, horizontal mast in order to avoid being especially by the members of Kingston Local consumed by the inferno. He clung to the 498 and other nearby IAFF affiliates that were rigging for an hour before he was pushed to their limits while saving their City dramatically plucked to safety by a rescue from a major disaster. helicopter from a Canadian Forces Base in A four-storey woodframe building under nearby Trenton. construction in downtown Kingston erupted Meanwhile, SCBAs were at a premium due in flames just aer 2:00 p.m. on December 17 to the sheer number of fire fighters on the This four-storey woodframe structure was and quickly became a monstrous inferno, scene, and radio communication was also a destroyed in a massive blaze in downtown fanned by winds and fueled by tons of problem in some cases. In addition, some Kingston, Ontario. The blaze rekindled unprotected wood on the site. Kingston fire fighters didn’t get the call to questions about Canada’s National Building As an incident commander’s plea to “call in come in to help with the blaze, which Bryan Code and a proposal to raise the maximum every available fire fighter” echoed ominously says the local may investigate. But in all, the allowable height of combustible woodframe across the radio waves, flames spread across response was professional. Except for the buildings to six storeys. the street to a hotel, a seniors’ residence and a crane operator, who received burns, there duplex, forcing the evacuation of hundreds were no onsite injuries during the entire NFPA, which identifies gaps in available and causing the City to cordon off several 36-hour operation. research on tall wood buildings. downtown blocks in the picturesque city of “at was a testament to our training and In the meantime, Bryan notes that nearby 159,000 nestled beside the northeast tip of how well we were prepared,” Bryan says. restaurants, including McDonalds and Tim Lake Ontario. Fire officials and others — including Hortons, generously provided food for weary e blaze, which completely destroyed the Kingston’s mayor — had previously noted the fire crews, as did the Plymouth Brethren half-finished student residence, also raised woodframe structure and expressed concern Christian Church’s “Rapid Response Team” questions about woodframe construction just that it was a hazard. “When the crew got the and other community members. “We were as a proposal to amend the National Building call, they were hopeful it wasn’t that building,” very appreciative of the community response Code of Canada to increase the maximum Bryan says. “But it was evident as soon as we got,” she says. height of woodframe construction by 50 per they pulled out of the station that it was.” Also appreciated were the words of cent, from four to six storeys, was released. e IAFF cited the disaster in a formal Kingston Mayor Mark Gerretsen and Deputy “It was definitely the fire of my career,” says submission to the Canadian Commission on Mayor Sandy Berg, who on December 23 President of Kingston Local 498 Ann Bryan. Building and Fire Codes (CCBFC), which is thanked fire fighters and other City Bryan was not on duty when the fire broke seeking stakeholder submissions in advance employees for their professionalism. out, but raced instinctively to the scene to of a 2015 revision of the National Building “As Kingstonians and elected officials, we help fight the fire. Kingston fire fighters Code of Canada. are always proud of our public servants,” they endured cold, windy and wet conditions e IAFF has asked the CCBFC to delay said, “but we have never been more proud while battling the blaze. Also responding were the proposed increase in the allowable height than this last week. ank you for all that you members of Belleville Local 497, Brockville of woodframe buildings, at least until further do and have done this past week. As a Local 536, Gananoque Local 2306 and research into their fire performance and community we are tremendously grateful for Napanee Local 2822. behaviour is known. e IAFF also cited a all your efforts.” While the size of the fire was incredible, December 2013 report from the Fire Investigators have not yet stated what may catching everyone off guard, Bryan says there Protection Research Foundation, an arm of have caused the fire. n
WINTER 2014 LOCAL SCENE 23 New Jersey Law Now Covers Funeral “All the pieces finally came together, so now our members Expenses for Line-of-Duty Deaths have some comfort in knowing that their families will have Aer a strong collaborative lobbying effort “We have been working on this for a by the Professional Firefighters Association number of years on behalf of our families,” help in case the worst happens.” of New Jersey (PFANJ) and the New Jersey says PFANJ President Dominick Marino. Fraternal Order of Police (NJFOP), families “All the pieces finally came together, so now (D) and Assemblyman Gilbert “Whip” of New Jersey fire fighters, police officers, our members have some comfort in Wilson (D), the legislation passed both emergency medical responders and knowing that their families will have help houses with bipartisan support. e law correctional officers who die in the line of in case the worst happens.” became effective immediately. n duty will receive assistance covering funeral With the help of bill sponsors, Senators costs. Donald Norcross (D) and Fred Madden On January 13, 2014, Governor Chris Christie signed Senate Bill 512/Assembly Bill 1399 into law. Funeral reimbursement will be up to $10,000. “It is hard enough when a family m member makes the ultimate sacrifice. e m i i s last thing they should have to worry about s s s J J i U i U o o H is how to pay for the funeral,” says IAFF 1st H n D D n W W d District Vice President Bill Romaka. “I am qqualityuality d e e p p U
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24 LOCAL SCENE WINTER 2014 ALTS and Human Relations Conference: An Excellent Week of Training and Networking Nearly 1,300 affiliate leaders attended the Vincent J. Bollon Affiliate Leadership Training Summit (ALTS) in January. e annual education conference offered more than 100 breakout sessions, including 25 new or updated workshops, information sessions and networking. e Ernest A. “Buddy” Mass Human Relations Conference — with the theme “25 Years of Strength rough Diversity” — followed ALTS. is biennial Conference featured a variety of workshops covering conflict resolution, cross-generational dynamics, leadership and legal issues, among many more, as well as a keynote address from Lee Saunders, president of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME). n
Seahawk Super Fans Stand Out at Super Bowl Bremerton, WA Local 437 fire fighters 437 Secretary-Treasurer Doug Baier. e Jeremy Dixon and Benny Cammarata are New England Sports Network even lifelong Washington Seahawks fans, so for featured a story about the two men. Dixon Super Bowl XLVIII, there was only one and Cammarata also say that other fire place for them to be — New Jersey. fighters attending the game asked about the As part of the once-in-a-lifetime helmets and where to purchase their own. experience, Dixon and Cammarata wore Dixon and Cammarata say that the trip fire helmets made by Cammarata’s was definitely worth the effort and that the father-in-law in the official Seahawk colors final score (Seahawks 43-Denver Broncos and team decals. 8) was just a bonus. n “Wearing the fire helmets really made them stand out in the crowd,” says Local
Hawaii Members Wear Fire fighters Charlie Volhein and Mike Whim complete the 26.2-mile Full Turnout Gear in Honolulu Marathon in full turnout gear. Honolulu Marathon Two IAFF members crossed the finish line at the Honolulu Marathon December 8, 2013, wearing full turnout gear, including their SCBAs. With temperatures hovering around 80 degrees, Federal Firefighters of Hawaii Local F-263 member Charlie Volhein and retired member of Johnson County Fire Districts 2 and 3 Local 1371 (Shawnee, Kansas) Mike Whim walked the 26.2 miles in 10 hours and 45 minutes. “ese brothers set the bar,” says Local F-263 President Reid Shimabukuro. “We are extremely proud of them and I’m sure they’ve inspired others to do the same.” Volhein and Whim competed in this year’s marathon as a personal physical fitness challenge. e two already have plans to do it again next year to see if they can best their time. n
WINTER 2014 LOCAL SCENE 25 Flat Stanley Visits IAFF Headquarters, Tours the Nation’s Capital Flat Stanley arrived by mail, folded in an envelope with a letter written by Abigail Jensen, 8, daughter of John Jensen, a member of Des Moines, IA Local 4, along with a request for the IAFF to take Flat Stanley out for a quick tour of the sites in the Nation’s Capital. For those who don’t have children, “Flat Stanley” is the explosively popular children’s book used as a creative learning tool in classes across the globe. Stanley Lambchop is flat because a bulletin board has fallen on him. Rather than complaining, he makes the best of his new form by slipping into tight spaces. Soon, he realizes he can travel the world by mailing himself around. Students make their own paper Flat Stanleys and decide where to send them. Abigail Jensen with her father, John Jensen, As part of the project, the people he a member of Des Moines Local 4, and meets are asked to write a “from Flat Flat Stanley. Stanley” letter and send it back to the student to be read in class. read her letter to the class and shared the Abigail cut and colored her own Flat pictures from his adventure. Stanley and sent him to the IAFF. From “With the assistance of IAFF and IAFF there, with the help of the IAFF, Stanley 2nd District Vice President Mark took a short trip across the street for scaffolding. Workers were repairing several Woolbright, my daughter’s school project pictures in front of the White House and cracks that had opened on the façade as a was a huge success for her and her school,” the Washington Monument. result of an earthquake two years earlier. says John Jensen. n In his letter, Flat Stanly explains why the Picture taken and letter written, Flat Washington Monument was shrouded in Stanley returned to Abigail and she proudly
Canadian Political Training Academy Class of 2013 These 25 Canadian members are the latest to receive advanced political action skills and training after graduating from the IAFF Canadian Political Training Academy in November. The students were trained on the finer points of campaigning, election laws and dealing with the media. IAFF General President Harold Schaitberger traveled to Ottawa to address the class. n
26 LOCAL SCENE WINTER 2014 Important Convention Information New ONLINE process for Convention Call, credentials and registration.
What you need to do now: Significant Changes: • Make sure you have updated your email, and • Be sure to credential your delegates BEFORE arriving READ all convention email blasts in Cincinnati • Be current in your per capita • To be designated as a proxy-carrier, a delegate must be payments credentialed and registered (paid) prior to being selected. • Know your IAFF website login (or get one) Important Dates: • Keep your rosters updated (determines your delegate count) • April 7: Online credential/registration opens • Make sure email addresses for • May 1: Delegates’ credentials MUST be completed all delegates/alternates are on your roster in order to be considered for a convention • Make sure to have your IAFF membership committee card or order one. Contact the IAFF • June 30: Online proxy process MUST be completed Membership Department at (202)737-8484.
WINTER 2014 27 ACROSS THE IAFF
Standing Strong for Detroit
Even before a federal judge declared Detroit those decisions and in the eligible to become the nation’s largest planning for how a new municipal bankruptcy in history, the deck was department would be stacked against members of Detroit Local 344. structured.” Years of underfunding for equipment Over the course of the maintenance had led to dangers — engines ensuing months, the IAFF built unable to pump water on site, reduced street a new Detroit Fire Department lighting and diminished law enforcement from scratch, matching resources — that made fire fighters’ tireless resources — or lack of them — commitment to protect Detroit’s citizens and to risks that Local 344 members property riskier with each passing day. would likely be facing. e appointment of an emergency Among other things, the needed to Local 344 President Jeff Pegg and manager from one of the nation’s more IAFF recommended new deployment and the Executive Board to help keep members anti-union law firms to run the City, and a employment models for Detroit’s fire informed about developments through bankruptcy court ruling that lumped health department to the City and its consultants, email updates, Facebook posts and Tweets. care and pension rights along with the as well as proposals for a fully integrated, “e value of support provided by the claims of Wall Street banks, added to the fire-based EMS model — which does not IAFF cannot be understated when it comes insulting possibility of reduced currently exist in Detroit. to the tremendous resources allocated to the benefits and to the rising risk of e recommendations included brothers and sisters of Local 344,” says Local injury that already existed on comprehensive research on wage 344 President Jeff Pegg. “e IAFF reached Detroit’s streets. and benefit comparables, both state out to us early on and ensured us legal Fortunately, the Local 344 and national, to ensure that any assistance, pension experts, restructuring leadership and members are not decisions about future guidance and much, much more. is is alone in dealing with the compensation reached by mediators validated by the fact that we still have a seat challenges of preserving their or the bankruptcy court would be at the mediation table. Our International benefits or their safety in this as equitable as possible for Local truly exemplifies what solidarity is all about.” struggle. Even before 344 members. e challenge remains great. But as Local bankruptcy had been declared, the IAFF was e IAFF’s involvement with the 344 said to its members in one of its first helping Local 344 deal with the growing bankruptcy was soon expanded when staff internal messages concerning the bankruptcy: crisis and cope with the challenges. and legal counsel were designated to “Just like we do on each shi, we have “We saw that our members’ safety and participate in a professionals-only mediation each other and each other’s backs. And with benefits were at risk in Detroit long before the ordered by the bankruptcy judge. ose only that going for us — because our rigs City filed for bankruptcy,” says General confidential mediations are ongoing. and our equipment are falling apart around President Harold Schaitberger. “We knew that From early on, the IAFF was also assisting us — we’re surviving truly life-threatening the fight to save benefits in bankruptcy would the Local 344 leadership in its situations on the job every day. So we can be tough, so we committed all the resources communication efforts — consulting on survive this. But, we have to stick together. we could to make sure that our brothers and press relations, draing press releases and Everyone must make it a priority to stay sisters have as strong a voice as possible in providing other public relations support as informed. Be ready to help out.” n
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WINTER 2014 ACROSS THE IAFF 29 Achieving Political Success Elections have consequences — good and Governor McAuliffe’s transition team e biggest opportunities will be in bad. is is why it’s so important for the includes a representative of the public safety gubernatorial contests. Aer the 2010 IAFF, its affiliates and members to actively community that the IAFF recommended. elections, a number of traditional strong participate in electing IAFF-friendly e efforts helped elect other fire labor states elected anti-labor governors candidates across the United fighter and union friendly who went on a legislative assault against States and Canada. candidates as lieutenant organized labor — and in specific cases fire In 2013 — an off-year governor and Attorney fighters. Over a two-year period, states election — the IAFF General, as well as hold onto including Wisconsin, Ohio, Michigan, successfully ousted two state Senate seats in Maine, Pennsylvania and Florida — to incumbents who were special elections that ensure name a few — attacked collective anti-fire fighter and a pro-labor majority in that bargaining rights, pension plans and anti-union and elected chamber. promoted Right-to-Work legislation (see IAFF-friendly mayors in In 2014, there are critical story on page 16). Boston, Detroit, Toledo, elections across the country — 36 In the 2014 elections, the IAFF will be on Cincinnati, Dayton, Scranton and gubernatorial races, 36 U.S. Senate the offensive, standing up for its members Seattle. Other wins came in Stockton as elections and all 435 seats in the House of as many of these anti-labor governors are voters approved a sales tax increase that Representatives, as well as a number of state up for re-election. will generate revenue for public safety, and legislative chambers up for grabs. It may seem that every election cycle is in Cincinnati, Local 48 helped defeat a is union will be on the frontline the most critical. While the IAFF and ballot measure to protect public employee supporting its friends, making gains and FIREPAC have engaged in campaigns at the pensions. In the Commonwealth of creating opportunities for members federal level for decades, the International Virginia, the IAFF and affiliates in the state wherever possible and producing majorities has also been working with state affiliates in campaigned hard to put Terry McAuliffe in and electing members of Congress, recent years in key gubernatorial contests. the Governor’s Mansion, defeating the governors, mayors and council members is year will be no different. n Republican candidate — Ken Cuccinelli — that advance legislation to improve the lives whose opposition to labor is well known. and livelihoods of IAFF members.
30 ACROSS THE IAFF WINTER 2014 Congress Passes Fiscal Year 2014 Spending Package Aer months of political wrangling that West, Texas. A significant percentage of funding for non-medically retired frayed partisan tensions and resulted in a first responders are not adequately trained personnel, it does provide relief lengthy government shutdown, Congress to respond to emergencies involving for approximately 630,000 disabled wrapped up its work on legislation funding hazardous materials; this funding is veterans and survivors. n the federal government for Fiscal Year intended to help rectify this training gap. 2014. e bill, H.R. 3547, passed the Senate e bill also includes a provision by a vote of 72-26. Earlier it passed the U.S. restoring the full cost-of-living (COLA) House of Representatives 359-67. adjustment for disabled veterans. Congress e bill includes $340 million each for had previously reduced veterans’ COLAs as the Staffing for Adequate Fire and part of the Bipartisan Budget Act. Although Emergency Response (SAFER) and the fix in H.R. 3547 does not restore Assistance to Firefighters (FIRE Act) grant programs, an increase of $5 million over last year’s funding levels — an unusual victory in today’s difficult budgetary environment. e bill also extends the SAFER waivers for Fiscal Year 2014. e waivers, which were first enacted in 2009 aer an exhaustive lobbying campaign by the IAFF and its members, ensure that fire departments can use SAFER grants to rehire and retain fire fighters, in addition to hiring new personnel. “e additional funding made available for SAFER and FIRE Act grants will not only help hire, rehire and retain fire fighters and paramedics, but will also allow fire departments to purchase equipment and pay for training they might otherwise have gone without YOU ARE DRIVEN TO due to local budget shortfalls.”
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WINTER 2014 ACROSS TH E12:05 IAF PMF 31 Giving Muscular Dystrophy the Boot A short history of the long-standing, 60-year commitment between MDA and the IAFF
e year was 1954. Dwight D. Eisenhower called the White House Tom Boyle, MDA’s national vice president of organizational home, a gallon of gas averaged 22 cents, and the television show partnerships, sees today’s roughly 300,000 IAFF members’ “Father Knows Best” kept Americans captivated with Hollywood’s dedication to MDA as an extension of their pledge to save lives — version of the perfect family. But, as explained in a 1954 article not only rescuing community citizens every day in the line of duty published in e Press-Gazette (Hillsboro, Ohio), no one knew but also tirelessly helping to fund worldwide research efforts that best when it came to treating the estimated 200,000 Americans will someday eradicate the 40-plus neuromuscular disorders diagnosed with a strange ailment called muscular under MDA’s umbrella. dystrophy. is “very costly disease,” the article “Fill-the-Boot is much larger than a fundraising drive explained, baffled researchers, and although — it represents the caring relationship between fire the Muscular Dystrophy Association fighters and their communities,” Boyle explains. (MDA), founded in 1950, was dedicated “Americans view these men and women as to “seeking the cause and a cure for this heroes, saving lives every day and asking for mysterious and fatal malady,” nothing in return — no glory, no heroic insufficient research funds kept credit, no fame. So when we see these fire progress at bay. fighters on a street corner, holding their boot In the background, however, a and MDA signs, it’s just natural for us to roll relationship between MDA and the down the window and pitch in what we can. IAFF was heating up. is partnership For many, I think it’s a way of giving back to would eventually produce a prolific the heroes who so selflessly give to others.” fundraising endeavor called “Fill the Since 1954, IAFF has pulled in more than Boot” — an annual donation drive that is $500 million for MDA, largely through the celebrating its 60th anniversary this year. signature MDA Fill-the-Boot campaign. In recent roughout its six-decade evolution, IAFF years, IAFF affiliates have added a few more creative members across the United States and Canada have fundraising endeavors, including golf events, continually strengthened the Fill-the-Boot campaign, and bowl-a-thons and soball tournaments. As a result, the IAFF’s today, the IAFF is MDA’s single-largest fundraising partner and ongoing support allows MDA to fund more than 200 research most ardent crusader to find a cure for neuromuscular disease. projects around the world, maintain a nationwide network of 200 Fill-the-Boot began as a good deed, but as the annual drive medical clinics — including more than 40 MDA/ALS centers — grew in prominence, the IAFF soon became MDA’s largest for diagnostic and follow-up care, provide equipment repairs for national sponsor. In fact, the number of fire fighters who devoted those in need, and sponsor nearly 80 summer camps — all their off-duty time to raise Fill-the-Boot funds grew so free-of-charge for campers and created specifically for young significantly and quickly that today the campaign helps to support people with neuromuscular diseases. research grants, as well as MDA summer camps for children, “is program would be impossible without the thousands who professional and public health education and numerous other acts devote their time to our campers, and chief among these are of generosity and commitment. members of the IAFF,” says Boyle.
32 ACROSS THE IAFF WINTER 2014 In 1952, Charles J. Crowley and his wife, Geraldine, were raising their two sons, both affected by muscular dystrophy. “Fill-the-Boot is much larger than a While the family comfortably provided the best life possible for fundraising drive — it represents the their boys, Crowley looked into a metaphorical crystal ball and saw no future hope for children like his own. caring relationship between fire fighters “He just couldn’t sit by and do nothing,” explains Suzanne and their communities.” Crowley Blaszak, the Crowley’s third and youngest child. Today, Crowley Blaszak, a 61-year-old retired teacher, speaks often and joyfully about Fill-the-Boot — as someone who tirelessly worked all her life to raise such funds but also as IAFF General President Harold Schaitberger says the someone living with muscular dystrophy herself, albeit a milder reason these two organizations keep expanding their case than what eventually took her brothers’ lives. relationship is really quite simple. “We both care. Our It all began when Charles Crowley reached out to his good members care about the citizens they serve. ey coach buddy and IAFF member George Graney for help to raise little league games and build ramps for those who are money in support of muscular dystrophy research. As the physically impaired. at’s in addition to the incredible story goes, the two rounded up 20 additional fire fighters from work they do professionally. And it’s clear that MDA cares Graney’s Boston Local 718 and set off for a neighborhood just as much about the people they serve.” door-to-door canister drive, which raised an impressive Schaitberger continues, “So when a fire fighter holds out $5,000. The success of that initial effort and subsequent that boot in Phoenix, standing in 105-degree heat, or in drives prompted the co-founders to attend the IAFF 1954 Cleveland, raising funds in near zero temperatures, they National Convention in Miami, where it was proposed and know that their personal commitment will benefit only unanimously approved that MDA would be forever more the those with muscular dystrophy. is level of trust made IAFF’s “charity of choice.” That day, the fire fighters solidified our relationship with MDA work back in 1954 — and until their partnership with MDA, pledging that they will continue there is a cure, we plan to continue the partnership.” the fight until the battle is won. Last year’s Fill-the-Boot efforts are proof that this Now 60 years strong, the bond between the IAFF and MDA remains, and in its mission to fight muscle disease, MDA partnership continues to thrive. With IAFF members knows it can count on the IAFF’s fundraising might. Crowley raising more than $26 million in the United States in 2013, Blaszak attributes much of the relationship’s success to a and their Canadian counterparts adding another $2.5 mutual admiration for each other’s core mission. “Our IAFF fire million, MDA-funded research has even more support in fighters and MDA are both about saving lives,” she says. “I its quest for that elusive cure. n think their shared commitment to life strengthens the relationship — it’s why we’re so much closer to a cure today.”
Canadian Affiliates Hold Rooftop Campouts in Support of MDC Edmonton, AB Local 209 and Spruce Grove, AB Local 3021 fire fighters are among the Canadian IAFF affiliates braving cold temperatures to raise funds for Muscular Dystrophy Canada (MDC) this winter through rooftop campouts. The unique fundraiser was pioneered by Edmonton, AB Local 209 in 2005, and has grown each year. In 2014, at least 17 Canadian IAFF locals are holding rooftop campouts for MDC. Canadian IAFF locals raised close to $1.4 million for MDC in the fiscal year 2012-2013 through campouts and other fundraising initiatives. n
WINTER 2014 ACROSS THE IAFF 33 Canadian Legislative Conference Is April 27-30 in Ottawa
IAFF members from across Canada will agenda for 2014. As a direct result of return to Ottawa April 27-30, 2014, to lobby lobbying by the IAFF, the Canadian their MPs on a number of issues important government has committed that an to Canada’s professional fire fighters. upcoming revision of the nation’s pandemic e 21st edition of the Conference takes plan will clarify that fire fighters are place in a new venue, the newly-renovated medical first responders who should be Delta Ottawa City Centre Hotel, which is grouped with other health care workers across the street from the IAFF Canadian when decisions about vaccine prioritization Office and two blocks from Parliament Hill. are being made. e IAFF has confirmed noted journalist Detailed information about the 2014 and author Susan Delacourt as the keynote Canadian legislative agenda, Conference speaker. registration and hotel reservations will be e IAFF’s Canadian legislative agenda e-mailed to affiliate leaders in advance of for 2014 is in the process of being finalized the Conference. and will be announced prior to the IAFF Canada is also working to extend Conference. e need to amend the federal government funding for its National Building Code of Canada to Canadian Haz-Mat & CBRNE Training recognize fire fighter safety will be a key Initiative, and with local and provincial issue, as will the need to establish a national affiliates on major initiatives on Emergency Public Safety Officer Compensation Medical Services (EMS) and strategic (PSOC) benefit. messaging in 2014. n But, thanks to an IAFF legislative victory, pandemic preparedness will not be on the
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34 ACROSS THE IAFF WINTER 2014
Last Alarm for Fallen Toledo Fire Fighters
More than 5,000 fire fighters, family and friends attended the Last Alarm “Fallen fire fighters deserve Memorial January 30 to pay their final — and rightly so — respects to two fallen Toledo, OH Local 92 fire fighters — Stephen A. Machcinski, the title of heroes.” 42 and James A. Dickman, 31. e two men lost their lives during an apartment fire January 26. Toledo Local 92 President Jeff At the memorial, both men were Romstadt said, “Steve and Jamie were not remembered for their fervor for just great fire fighters and the job. Machcinski had only co-workers… they were our Stephen A. Machcinski James A. Dickman wanted to be a fire fighter; family as well.” Dickman also followed In his remarks, Toledo his life-long dream of Mayor D. Michael Collins being a fire fighter. said, “Fallen fire fighters IAFF General “deserve — and rightly so President Harold — the title of heroes.” Schaitberger, who spoke Perhaps the most fitting at the memorial, reminded tribute to these fallen the assembled crowd that brothers is a training class “this job can break your heart. motto written by Jamie Dickman: Helping people in danger is what our “We fight with courage … we stand profession is all about.” with pride … we honor those who gave During his remarks, Schatiberger their lives.” n presented the Machcinski and Dickman families with the IAFF Medal of Honor.
36 ACROSS THE IAFF WINTER 2014 Local President Dies in Road Accident
e IAFF is sad to report the passing of “Todd‘s hard work made High Point, NC Local 673 President Todd Martinez, a dedicated union leader, High Point safer and member, husband and father. Martinez, 49, improved the lives of his died February 2, aer being hit by a car while riding his bicycle with his wife, brothers and sisters on the Melanie. frontline. He was a true According to the High Point Fire Department, Martinez, a fire equipment leader and will be missed.” operator, died from his injuries at Moses Cone Hospital in Greensboro. e with all unions and the private sector to accident is being investigated as a hit and get things done. He was very aggressive on run. insisting on proper staffing, but he always “Todd‘s hard work made High Point managed to maintain good relations with safer and improved the lives of his brothers the other side,” he says. and sisters on the frontline,” says General In 1988, Martinez joined the IAFF as a President Harold Schaitberger. “He was a member of Alameda, CA Local 689. He true leader and will be missed.” moved to High Point in 1997 to work for David Anders, president of the the High Point Fire Department and join Professional Fire Fighters and Paramedics Local 673. He became president of Local of North Carolina, calls Martinez one of 673 in 1998. the best trade unionists in the state of Martinez is survived by his wife and North Carolina. “He believed in working four children. n
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World Firefighters Games: Health, Fitness, Fun and Competition
e 2014 World Firefighters Games, e WFG also offers scheduled for August 15-24 in Los workshops focusing on fire Angeles, California, promises to be the fighter health, fitness and biggest and most widely attended fire safety, including sessions fighter event in the world. taught by the IAFF on the Fire CEO and organizer of the 2014 World Ground Survival (FGS) Firefighters Games Greg Hough says the program and preventing and 2014 Games includes a program of exciting minimizing injuries. competition backed by a highly anticipated e IAFF Fire Ground Survival program “e Games are more than entertainment package ever staged by the trains fire fighters to perform potentially just a celebration, they are a Games. life-saving actions if they become lost, “Fire fighters and first disoriented, injured, low on way to honor the men and responders from across the air or trapped. is workshop women across the world who United States and around will review the data and the globe are heading to research used to develop devote their lives to keeping Los Angeles for what we are these life-saving techniques our communities safe.” confident will be the biggest and provide information on and best World Firefighters how you can bring this Games ever held,” says training to your members. on the importance of proper movement to Hough. “I am very proud In addition to reviewing help avoid work-related injuries. to extend the invitation to the process on how to e WFG also includes social and all first responders and become a Peer Fitness Trainer entertainment events, opening and closing urge you to join us if you (PFT), the benefits of implementing ceremonies and an Expo featuring the haven’t already registered.” a PFT program for your members and latest products and developments in e Games offers competition from the your department, the Preventing and health, safety, fitness and well-being. elite level, including the coveted Toughest Minimizing Injuries workshop features Register today for the 2014 World Firefighter Alive trophy, to inclusive team practical applications and demonstrations Firefighters Games at www.wfg2014.com . n events such as the WFG Amazing Race. In addition, the Games will feature one of the most challenging events on offer, the Combat Challenge. Wearing full bunker The World Firefighters Games offers more than 50 sporting events, including the gear, pairs of competitors race flagship event, the Toughest Firefighter Alive. Participants compete in water-based head-to-head as they simulate the physical sports, indoor-outdoor activities and fire-based events. demands of real-life fire fighting, Fire-Based Events Outdoor Events Indoor Activities performing a linked series of five tasks, including climbing the five-story tower, l Toughest Firefighter l Cross Country l Arm Wrestling hoisting, chopping and dragging hoses, Alive Running l Badminton followed by the rescue of a life-sized, l Stair Run l Cycling Road Race l Pool 175-pound “victim” as they race against l Fire Truck Challenge l Cycling Mountain l Basketball themselves, their opponents and the clock. l Firehouse Cook-off Biking l Bench Press ere is also a World Firefighters Games l Disaster Challenge l 5km Challenge l Body Building Expo, as well as a packed social and l Bucket Brigade l Flag Football l Boxing entertainment program. l WFG Amazing Race l Golf l Darts Best of all, your participation in this l Half Marathon l Dodge Ball premier global event also directly helps fire Water-Based Events l Lawn Bowls l Horseshoes fighters and their families in their time of l Swimming —open l Paintball l Indoor Rowing need. For every IAFF member who water l Rugby l Poker registers for the Games, $10 goes the IAFF l Swimming —pool l Skeet Shooting l Soccer Charitable Foundation. l Angling — freshwater l Trap Shooting l Squash “We are looking forward to a very l Surfing l Soccer l Table Tennis strong host-nation presence,” says Hough. l Softball l Ten Pin Bowling “e Games are more than just a l Tennis l Tug-of-War celebration, they are a way to honor the Triathlon Volleyball men and women across the world who l l Volleyball devote their lives to keeping our l communities safe.”
38 ACROSS THE IAFF WINTER 2014 The Next Generation of Media Is Here
e IAFF is making many changes in how it communicates with its members, elected officials, the media and the public. One of the bigger changes comes with the launch of E-18 Media, a new, full service, in-house radio, video and television production company and studio. Wholly-owned by the IAFF Financial Corporation (IAFF-FC), E-18 Media significantly enhances the services the IAFF can provide to affiliates in developing public relations, public education, media or fighting back campaigns. Based at IAFF headquarters in Washington, DC, E-18 Media’s state-of-the-art, high definition, multi-media studio can deliver content to affiliates through new media and can link to broadcast outlets anywhere in the world. Staffed E-18 Media’s video with video production crews production studio in and professional staff that have Washington, DC. worked with the IAFF for more than two decades, E-18 Media’s studios are equipped with multiple cameras, video graphics, audio recording and post-production editing suites — all linked by media servers. ese tools will prove increasingly useful for telling your side of the story in local As new methods of communicating emerge, E-18 Media embraces campaigns, ballot measures or political campaigns. the change and is ready to respond with content for documentaries, E-18 Media can also deliver all of the IAFF’s programs and training, organizing, public relations and political action. service digitally, through the web, in real time or archived, and Affiliates must submit requests for assistance through their allows members to see important messages, read the latest digital respective district vice presidents. n version of the Fire Fighter Quarterly magazine with video clips, take an online course, or participate in a briefing and more, all on the go.
Enter the IAFF Media Awards Contest Have you seen any good stories about the professional fire fighters and emergency work that professional fire fighters and personnel in the United States and paramedics do? Did your local Canada. conduct a public relations For the 2014 Media pride, knowing that their work has shown campaign in your Awards Contest, the IAFF one of the world’s most important community? has made changes to professions at its finest. Enter your work in the contest categories and Contest entry forms are available at IAFF Media Awards Contest entry forms, including www.iaff.org/mediaawards . — the awards recognize separate entry forms for Entries must have been produced, outstanding work by IAFF affiliates and the media. published or broadcast between January 1 affiliates in communicating with Please read the rules and and December 31, 2013. their members and public, as instructions carefully before e deadline for entries is April 1, 2014. well as reporting and submitting your entries. For more information, contact the IAFF photography that best portray In addition, first-place winners Communications Department at (202) the exciting, meaningful and will receive a “I won an IAFF 824-1588 or email mediaawards@iaff.org. n oen dangerous work of Media Award” T-shirt to wear with
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WINTER 2014 ACROSS THE IAFF 41 Doolittle, James Dukes, Joe Hagans, Evans Howard, Kevan Hubbell, Ronald Jefferson, Mark Johnson, Donald Kreitzman, Curtis Merritt, Kevin Miller, Phillip Nadeau, Darryl Patterson, Douglas Phillips, Bradley Sirmans, Darrell Thomas, Malcolm IAFF Retirees Tyson, Leland Watson, Ronald Wells, Nicholas Wells, L0587 Miami Association Of Fire Fighters: Richard Bruno, Jerome Crenshaw, Michael Dames, Zachary Nicholas, A Salute to Dedication, Service and Courage Carlos Noguera, Less Reddick, L0707 Pensacola Professional Fire Fighters: Jack McLendon, L0727 West Palm Beach Association Of Fire Fighters: Michael ALABAMA L0117 Birmingham: Johnny Cox, Kenneth Burbank: Jeffrey Williams, L0798 San Francisco: Daren Carsillo, Steven Jones, Ronald Lauth, L0754 Tampa: Troy Essig, Jason Floyd, Elisa Jordan, Stanley McAdams, Robert Brannan, Jennifer Glickman, Patrick Murphy, Denise Basham, Timothy Colla, Tobin Hart, John Jordan, John Miller, Roy Willis, L0454 Gadsden: Douglas Maddox, L3447 Pemberton, L1319 Palo Alto: Paul Braa, Cameron Oslar, Kladakis, Gary Saladino, Richard Salario, George Truitt, Guntersville: Phillip Jarmon, L3948 Jacksonville L1465 Costa Mesa Fire Fighters Association: Inc: L1102 Hialeah Association Of Fire Fighters: Marcos De Professional Fire Fighters: James Boozer, Steven Spoon, Christopher Kudelka, L1592 Roseville Fire Fighters: Brian La Rosa, Ramon Perez, L1375 Hollywood Professional Kurt Turner, L3973 Leeds Fire Fighters Association: Diemer, L1622 Fallbrook Fire Fighters Association: Fire Fighters: Robert Arndt, Michael Briosi, Charles Colson, Johnny Denson, Rodney Fulmer, Randy Mathews Richard Moramarco, L1689 Fremont: Stacey Mitchell, Holly Kenneth Cressler, James Daniels, Robert Hazen, Andrew Mossop, Henry Olmetti, Dennis Rudasill, L1377 ALBERTA L0209 Edmonton Fire Fighters Union: Stan Novak, L1716 Santa Cruz: Dawne Newcomb, Grant Parker, Professional Fire Fighters & Paramedics Of Saint Lucie Eden, Roland Letendre, Mark Loveseth, Jim Mortemore, L1775 Marin Professional Fire Fighters: John Barry, Keith County: Jan Paul Brolmann, William Fields, Yolanda Garcia, Shayne Page, James Ruskin, L0255 Calgary: Bernard Cavallero, Robert DeLong, Jim Galli, Roger Meagor, Lauri Reva Hurtado, Emil Miclea, Jose Ortiz, James Parent, L1403 Benson, Dan Brown, Doug Chern, Gregory Christensen, Alan Thompson, L1909 Hayward: Edward Camera, Gerry Price, Metropolitan Dade County Association Of Fire Fighters: Conlin, Michael Crawford, Ron Dees, Pat Eslinger, William L1927 Culver City: Michael Katan, L2180 Chula Vista Fire William Bardisa, Cheryl Blevins, Jeffrey Cole, Jack Cole, Halase, T. M. Hartle, Paul Jeffery, Luc LeBlanc, Lawrence Fighters: Gary Breton, Darrell Relyea, Robert Ziomek, Thomas Cyr, Robert Dixson, Jose Formoso, Timothy Gibbs, Lees, John Malinowski, Kirk Newbigging, Mike Noblett, Bill L2384 Orange City: Michael Swanson, L2400 San Mateo Stephen Gohlke, Ralph Gonzalez, John Hafner, Lewis Pawluk, Dan Smith, Ron Story, Robert Swindells, L. T. County: David Carr, Frank Castillo, Glenn Grant, Gary Hallmon, James Happl, Charley Hay, Ellen Higginbotham, Thorburn, Ben Van Erkel, Wade Walls, Brian Ward, M. S. Hegwer, Jeff Kim, Kenneth Steele, L2787 Redondo Beach: Diane Hughes, Socrates Isambert, Michel Parker, Rodrigo Weatherly, Stephen Wilson Kirk Harty, Steve Hyink, L2881 CDF Fire Fighters: Denney Conley, Robert Eicholtz, Rich Fuqua, Valarie Grafft, Katherine Pascual, Raymond Ramirez, Curtis Reik, Reginald ARIZONA F0142 Yuma: Tony Dellaidotti, L0479 Tucson: Holgate, Catherine Kellington, Joseph Santia, Timothy Ward, Richardson, Robert Robbins, Carlos Rodriguez-Torres, Michael Grinnell, L0493 Phoenix: Michael Dudzinski, Gerrie Wiese, L2899 Anaheim Fire Fighters Association: George Seijo, Glenn Shepard, Steven Smelley, George Howard Frinter, Joseph Tunny, L2260 Mesa: Larry Rocky Audley, Joel Griffin, L3354 Huntington Beach: Stojkovic, Thomas Strobel, Jacqueline Suarez, Onelio Tam, Campbell, Paul Finley, Sam Martinez, Danny Ott, L4125 Christopher Gruber, Chris Hartman, L3501 Vacaville: Brian Stephanie Torres, Olga Warner, L1560 Fire Fighters Of Green Valley: Thomas Louis, L4631 Rio Rico Fire Fighters Moore, L3522 Chino Valley Professional Fire Fighters : Boca Raton: Robert Yard, L1826 Southwest Florida Union: Mark Jones, John McDonald, Rafael Mulero Kim Johnson, Jerry Lopez, L3546 San Ramon Valley: Professional Fire Fighters: Michael Holobinko, L2057 ARKANSAS L0034 Little Rock: Sandra Wesson, L2276 Robert Ryan, L3556 El Dorado County: Ricky Branaugh, Orange County Professional Fire Fighters: Mark Ratta, Malvern: Norman Byrd, L4078 Van Buren: Donald Baltz L3631 Orange County Professional Fire Fighters L2157 Gainesville Professional Fire Fighters: Keith Association: David Altamirano, Thomas Evans, James Collingwood, L2193 Pinellas Park Fire Fighters BRITISH COLUMBIA L0296 North Vancouver: Peter Forrester, Timothy Murphy, Steven Poole, Karim Slate, Rick Association: Gregory Brown, Shawn Conrad, William Grace, Andermatt, Michael Corcoran, L0323 Burnaby: Barry Bate, Spitler, L3757 Corona Fire Fighters Association: John James Vuolo, L2201 Indian River County Fire Alan Gray, Tim Hanna, L0905 Nanaimo: Douglas Bell, Ball, L3787 Encinitas: Andrew Mejia, L3903 California Fighter/Paramedic: Norman Wells, L2271 New Smyrna L0913 Kamloops: Judy Croucher, Tom Dobrovolny, Len City Fire Fighters Association: Kenneth Mylander, L3922 Beach Professional Fire Fighters Association: David Judd, Dunn, Ian MacKay, L1286 Richmond: Brian Coombs, Poway Fire Fighters Association: Richard Tallman, L3936 L2292 Professional Fire Fighters Of Pembroke Pines: L1372 Prince George: Mike Doering, Mark Hill, Drew Dinuba Firemens Association: Rolando Marroquin, Jon Alfred DiLiello, Johnny Mullin, Mariano Santos, Michael Sica, Larsen, L1763 Delta Firefighters: William Grant Raynes, L4692 Imperial Beach Fire Fighters Association: Allen Watson, L2294 Hillsborough County Fire Fighters: CALIFORNIA F0033 San Diego: Lars Beeghley, Robert Phil Joseph Dominic Marino, James Ratliff, Jimmy Shannon, Douglas Smith, L2297 North Naples Professional Fire Fighters: McLeary, Robert Miranda, F0053 Edwards Air Force Base: COLORADO L0858 Denver: Michael Parker, Robert Warner, Cory Fahrenbruch, L2315 Davie Professional Fire Scott Carlton, F0085 Federal Fire Fighters Association: L1945 Poudre Fire Authority: William Salmon, L2086 Fighters: Kenneth Harris, David Stevens, L2424 Cape Christopher Cabral, Stanley Martinez, David Rosalee, F0102 Littleton: Sarah Winter, L2203 North Metro: Benjamin Coral Professional Fire Fighters: Michael Camelo, John Lemoore Naval Air Station: Russell Burkhart, L0055 Freedman, L2403 North Washington: Mike Balistreri, Spicuzza, Richard Wylie, L2427 Largo Professional Fire Oakland: Alameda County And Emeryville: Douglas L3027 Cunningham: Fredrick Wolf Abram, John Arenz, Brian Bailey, Benjamin Beede, Bryan Fighters Association: Frank Bignotti, Steven Bourne, Lewis Brumfield, Douglas Conover, Bonnie Cox, Victor Cuevas, CONNECTICUT F0219 Submarine Base: Timothy Bradford, Scott Collins, Frank Defrancesco, Donald Feaster, Kevin Dugan, James Duvall, Paul Evans, John Ferguson, Johnson, I0088 Hamilton Sundstrand Emergency Neil Griffiths, Greg Jensen, Gary Kuhns, John Pyburn, L2445 Paul Filson, Phillip Garcia, Sheldon Gilbert, Larry Hendricks, Services Officers Association: Dana Robertson, L0786 Professional Fire Fighters Of Titusville: Roland Carpentier, Charles Hermanson, James Holderman, Steven Knight, Stamford Professional Fire Fighters Association: Gene William Feagan, Walter Kohler, Brian Litterilla, Norman Perry, Joseph Labruzzo, Cynthia Mariolle, Steven Marks, John Chrostowski, John Telesco, L0825 New Haven: Stephen L2446 Palm Bay Professional Fire Fighters: Ron Bratsch, McClintic, Rahman Muhammad, Paul Murphey, Robert Estep, Jeffrey Foster, Eric George, Marlon Jones, Kevin David Ginsburg, John Robertson, Robert Shunk, L2546 Nylander, Enrique Padilla, Leonard Patane, Anthony Perez, McNamara, Jon Redmond, Richard Rife, John Vendetto, Suncoast Professional Fire Fighters & Paramedics: Brad Pfaff, David Piepho, John Reinthaler, Robert Rich, L0992 New Britain: R. G. Cunningham, Steven Pohl, James Coffin, Douglas Denison, Rex Huffine, Glen Leach, Edmund Robinson, Dan Robinson, German Sierra, Edward Michael Ronalter, L1042 Greenwich: Timothy Stottle, Anthony Martinez, Kenneth Ridgeway, David Sunnarborg, Silveira, Kenneth Sparaco, Andrew Storck, Kruger Story, Matt L1339 Waterbury: Ivan Hernandez, Daniel Huften, L1522 Christopher Zengel, L2820 Professional Fire Fighters Of Voelker, William Wadleigh, John Weir, Douglas Westphal, New London: Victor Spinnato, L1579 Manchester: Robert Miramar: Gary Harrington, Christine Parsons, L2896 King Wiley, James Williams, David Ybarra, L0112 Los O’Dell, L2033 Southington: Robert Upson, L4120 Seminole Professional Fire Fighters: Ronald Lighthiser, Angeles City: Michael Deacon, Richard Houle, Kevin Isozaki, Mansfield: Gerald Schaffer L2913 Deltona Professional Fire Fighters: Frank Snyder, David Torrez, L0145 San Diego: Steve Bellas, Michael DELAWARE L1590 Wilmington: Craig Slatcher L2928 Professional Fire Fighters & Paramedics Of Palm Brennan, Steven Canchola, Donald Farney, Edward Francel, Beach County: Michael Dickson, Michael Gerstner, Kari Daniel Goebel, Alexander Leon, Scott Morrison, L0188 DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA L0036 Washington: Eleon Johnston, Brad Kliphouse, John Larkin, Kevin McNamara, Richmond: Daniel Martin, Khang Vu, L0522 Sacramento: Baker, James Barrett, Eugene Burch, April DeGraff, Robert: George Perez, Robert Perrault, Laurie Porath, Richard Christopher Anaya, Dale Angelo, Larry Arellanez, Harold L. Edwards, Robert Eubanks, Glen Everette, Lashon Frazier, Seamon, David Simmons, Mitchell Smith, Francis Sulkowski, Bowers, Joseph Chesnut, Harold Gardner, Mark Gossett, Joe Gaston, Henry Hansford, Roberto Hernandez, James Cathy Waldron, Mitchell White, L2959 Professional Fire Curtis Gray, Richard Hoene, Robert Isenberg, Earnest Hull, Donald Lee, Tanya Melby, Dennis Mills, Titus Nelson, Fighters and Paramedics of Martin County: Cheryl Jackson, Brian James, Mark Manzoli, Thomas Michul, Robert Pacana, Ronnie Robin, Brett Sutor, Mark Sweitzer, Recca, L2969 Brevard County Professional Fire Fighters: Rosemary Robles, James Stewart, Gregory Tonin, Jeffrey Gloria Townsend, Reginald Tyner, Nickolas Watson, James Robert Getter, Eric Patterson, L3080 Metro-Broward Vitti, Michael Wigginton, Leon Williams, L0525 Santa Woodhouse, Terrance Worrell Professional Fire Fighters: Jerome Emerson, George Barbara City: Sarah McCarter, Gary Pitney, L0753 Fresno: FLORIDA L0122 Jacksonville Association Of Fire Martos, L3284 Osceola County Professional Fire Eric Keeslar, Jerome Nunnally, Donald Recchio, L0778 Fighters: Anthony Bivins, Edward Brown, Dale Daniels, Brian Fighters: Douglas Auriemma, L3499 Ormond Beach Fire
42 FIRE FIGHTER WINTER 2014 Fighters Association: Joseph King, L4321 Broward Smith, L3177 Buffalo Grove: William Brecht, L3191 Dwayne Seghers, Glenn Trainor, L0687 Bogalusa: Brian County: Jose Crespo, Christopher DeChert, Terry Faraone, Professional Fire Fighters of Lake Zurich: Gregory Fuchs, McCree James Owens, L4337 Flagler County Professional Fire L3598 Gurnee: Michael Kuzmicki, L4254 Palos Heights: MAINE F0123 Portsmouth Shipyard: Robert MacDonald, Fighters Association: Richard Crego, L4420 Pasco Richard Czajkowski, Matthew Schroeder, L4302 Naperville L0740 Portland: Sylvia Hull, Philip Moses, L0772 Bangor: County Professional Fire Fighters: Randy Mortellaro Professional Fire Fighters: Charles Dunning, David Ferreri, Thomas Goehringer, L1476 South Portland: John Bean, GEORGIA L0134 Atlanta: Paul Cuprowski, Fabian Dycus, Jerry Lichter, Michael Smith Stephen Fox, Daniel Larrabee Darryl Hodges, Troy McClure, Ab Stansel, L3357 INDIANA L0124 Fort Wayne: Steven Braun, Jeffrey Englert, MANITOBA L0867 Winnipeg: Paul Johnson Augusta-Richmond County Fire Fighters Association: L0360 Mishawaka: Steve Gregg, L0396 Kokomo: Jeff Jacques Johnson Cardwell, Michael Cook, Brian Coon, John Iseminger, William MARYLAND L0734 Baltimore: Joshua Bailey, Larry Baker, Miller, James Newburn, Edward Rayls, Charles Smalling, Charles Bonadio, Samuel Burrell, Shawn Coombs, Aaron HAWAII F0263 Federal Fire Fighters Of Hawaii: Ron Edwards, Monica Green, Steven Green, Simeon Hammett, Akiyama, Lawrence Alcosiba, Stephen Esmeralda, Emery Randall Wilson, Dannie Zehner, L1124 Valparaiso: Daniel Lamb, L1453 Brazil: Jim Smith, L2594 Clarksville: John William Harmon, Troy Howell, Lawrence Hughes, Raymond Freitas, L1463 Hawaiian Islands: Aaron Arbles, Richard Jefferson, Thomas Marr, Donald Quarles, Steven Smearman, Ban, Bary Ewaliko, Mark Ignacio, Bert Nakamura, Hazlett Sloan, Jeanne Taylor, L4416 Hamilton County Professional Fire Fighters Union: Kevin Hutchens, Richard Venanzi, Wayne Ward, Keith White, L1311 Weatherwax Baltimore County: Robert Chaney, Victoria Coyle, Donald IDAHO L0149 Boise: Douglas Gates, William Murphy, IOWA L0004 Des Moines: Jerry Hatchitt, James Mitchell, McKeldin, John Moeller, Wayne Redding, William Reter, L0804 Nampa: Tim Henrickson, L1773 Lewiston: Bernard Keith Neal, L0011 Cedar Rapids: Thomas Mackey, L0017 L1563 Anne Arundel County: John Fobare, Brett Howe, Sander Davenport: Randy Beaston, L0041 Mason City: Ray Wood Eric Hughes, William McKercher, L1619 Prince George’s ILLINOIS L0002 Chicago: John Alaniz, James Basile, KANSAS L0083 Topeka: Kent Dederick, David Harrison, County: Hector Areizaga, Kimberly Boone, Rodney Cole, Matthew Brady, FREDRICK Branch, Jeffrey Cunningham, Robert Hix, Robert Thompson, L0135 Wichita: Robert Brian Collins, Quinndel Dunn, Glenn Lambert, James Michael Galvan, Edward Herrera, Henry Lucas, John Bradfield, Everett Carpenter, Brent Owens, L4818 Stewart, L1664 Montgomery County: Melissa Baker, McCarty, Luther McInnis, Scott McShane, John Nudo, Professional Fire Fighters of Overland Park: Michael Timothy Bell, Andrew Bowen, Thornell Downing, Willie Donald Robinson, George Ryback, Peter Van Dorpe, L0050 Grove Forbes, Darius Goodman, John Hanagan, Reginald Hill, Peoria: Michael Loveless, Paul Maras, Gary VanVoorhis, KENTUCKY L0045 Newport: Patrick Krogman, L0345 Richard Holzman, Sam Hsu, Wolfgang Kahan, M. Allen L0099 Aurora: Richard Lockman, L0413 Rockford: Frank Louisville: Ralph Doak, Joseph Dodson, Mark Fleig, Keyser, Wayne Koontz, Fred Maxey, Marshall Moneymaker, Fuca, L0471 Harvey: Steven Ciecierski, L0505 Decatur: Matthew Goins, Kelly Johnson, Bruce Kelley, Richard Jason Oglesby, Frederick Probst, Donald Staley, James Joel Garrett, L0555 Galesburg: Michael Shepherd, Michael Leonard, Katherine Morganette, Clayton Nevitt, Deborah Summers, L4246 Salisbury: Richard Rathel Whitson, L0717 Cicero: Dave Bogacz, Dominick Buscemi, Pollard, Paul Routon, Tony Smyzer, L0870 Owensboro: MASSACHUSETTS L0030 Cambridge: Edmond Friel, Frank Falada, George Gonzalez, Dan Kempski, Richard Ronald Abell, Christopher Booker, James Fischer, Robert L0144 Brockton: Richard Baker, Donald Bissett, Mark Moravecek, Eric Pagni, Dominic Pileggi, Michael Shampine, Ford, Charles Hagan, L3952 Franklin County Fire Pettine, L0718 Boston: Dennis Corbett, James Loftus, Michael Slabenak, Michael Vilumis, L1526 Franklin Park: Department: Richard Conway, L4185 Alexandria Fire Robert Martin, Michael Mason, Domingo McKinney, L0792 Ronald Hamilton, Mark White, L1692 Godfrey: Michael District: Sandra Decker Quincy: Gary Patten, L0853 Lowell: Thomas Dowling, Kasten, L2061 Hoffman Estates: Henry Rolowicz, L2301 LOUISIANA L0540 Alexandria: Jeff Brumfield, Paul Anthony Stairs, L0920 Braintree: Russell Mahanna, L1009 Sterling: Edward Ramos, Phillip Sublett, L2986 Couvillion, Julius Layfield, Herbert Stokes, John Wagley, Worcester: Paul Berube, Joseph Blanchard, Richard Daley, Lisle/Woodridge: Doug Skotnicki, L3039 Oak Forest: L0632 New Orleans: Donald Beaulieu, Theodore Eden, Kevin McDonald, L1314 Fall River: Ian Amarantes, Edward Steven Rada, L3092 Lincoln: Rick O’Hara, L3144 Richard Hirstius, Ernest Majoue, Albert McGovern, Philip Pier, Anger, Michael Arruda, Gerard Boissonneault, Michael Taylorville: Andrew Goodall, L3165 Tri-State: Terrance Brodeur, Thomas Chippendale, Michael Coogan, Coury
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WINTER 2014 FIRE FIGHTER 43 Garside, Paul Jarabek, Jeffery Medeiros, Thomas Moore, Torres, Michael Vaughan, Gerald Vega, Jose Zayas, L2657 NORTH DAKOTA L0642 Fargo: John Arens, L0642 Fargo: Peter Raposa, Maurice Reney, Stephen Silvia, William Silvia, Brigantine: Daniel Jackson, Maurice Reed, Robert Riley, Michael Cleary John Wholey, L1478 Wakefield: Kevin Carney, Eugene William Simpson, L2883 Edison Professional Fire NOVA SCOTIA L0268 Halifax: Brian Baillie, Kenneth Doucette, L1495 Billerica: Gary Casterlin, Norman Poole, Officers: Thomas Walsh, L3172 Hackensack Uniformed Bottomley, Glenn Dixon, Brian Forbes, Glendon Gill L1580 Canton: Rodney Cleveland, L1652 Framingham: Fire Officers Association: Franklin Bay, Charles DeLuca, William Seariac, L2035 North Andover: William Golan, David Keller, Stephen Lindner, Kevin Morosco, Frank Pinto, OHIO F0088 Wright-Patterson Air Force Base: George L2172 Hyannis: Donald Chase, L2426 East Longmeadow: Alan Trupio, James Walker, L3263 Englewood Bergen, Roy Colbrunn, James Pickett, L0020 Hamilton: Stephen Rybacki, L2586 Dracut: Kenneth Wojtas, L2610 Professional Fire Officers: Michael Ingannamorte, John Thomas Eickelberger, Roger Fields, Michael Jackson, L0048 West Bridgewater: James Rocha, L2712 Chatham: McLoughlin Cincinnati: Steven Drescher, Gary Henry, Mark McAllister, Steven Phillips, Isaiah Robinson, John Sullivan, L0093 Katrina Hansen, L3642 Cotuit-West Barnstable NEW MEXICO L0244 Albuquerque: Darryl Longdon, Permanent Fire Fighter: Donna Fenner, L4358 Shirley Cleveland: Kariem Hasan, Michael Koehl, L0136 Dayton: Daxton Martinez, Bernie Martinez, Raul Navarrete, Gill Pohl, Dallas Davis, Lester Flohr, L0334 Lima: Bob Greeley, C. R. Professional Fire Fighters: Joseph Hawthorne, S0019 Thomas Stark, L4296 Gallup: Felix Lujan Devens: Richard Hewitt, S0029 104th Fighter Wing Fire Tolliver, Jack Ulrich, L0337 Euclid: Ronald Brickman, Department: Scott Logsdon, Chad Mason NEW YORK F0105 Fort Drum: Raymond Drake, F0256 Kenneth Smrdel, Daniel Wojtila, L0402 Cleveland Heights: Watervliet Arsenal: Dennis Kilcullen, L0086 Troy: Thomas Kevin Horkan, Regis Wolanin, L0474 Elyria: Robert Donofrio, MICHIGAN L0116 Bay City: Craig Holly, L0344 Detroit: Casey, Paul Collins, Robert Connolly, Albert Goyette, Girard Patrick Monda, L0639 Parma: Richard Novak, Dale Michael Feneis, William France, Timothy Harris, Robert Horst, Hart, Scott Lucey, Joseph Reilly, Robert Sleicher, Thomas Weidman, L0974 University Heights: Michael Ceraolo, Joseph Mahaffy, Jeffrey Majchrzak, Glenn Smith, L0352 Witkowski, L0094 Uniformed Fire Fighters Assoc. Of New L1065 South Euclid: Timothy Carney, Richard Huston, Flint: John Babb, Kelly Claybrooks, Javier Shelby, Lloyd York: Peter Arce, John Barry, Paul Bednarczyk, Richard L1101 Greenville: Charles Gasper, L1176 Boardman Williams, L0366 Grand Rapids: Kurt Baragar, L0421 Capito, John Casanovas, Martin Charles, Gerard Cullen, Township: Frank Jordan, William Manley, Mark Wheeler, Lansing: Christopher Waier, L0431 Royal Oak: Stacey Vincent Dour, William Eisengrein, Gary Felder, Donald L1267 North Olmsted: R.Scott Bartko, L1910 Struthers: Cruce, L0517 River Rouge: Robert Follbaum, L0646 Feldman, Richard Ferrin, Paul Finochiaro, Michael Gargiso, Richard Dale, L2079 Solon: Albert Benedict, Carla Traverse City: Theo Weber, L0722 Sturgis Fire Fighters Steven George, William Gilmartin, Paul Greco, Michael Harty, Cavanagh, L2380 Highland Heights: Scott Hahl, L2786 Association: Michael Picker, L1635 Marysville: Richard Hayes, James Hohorst, Scott Hummel, Matthew Howland: Robert Hill, David Williams, L2964 Green Christopher Petersen, L1831 Hampton Township: Joseph Kelleher, Kevin Kilkenny, Kevin Kubler, Vincent La Maida, Township: Richard McClellan, L3111 Anderson Township: Beisel, L2629 Independence Township: Michael White, John MacDonald, Richard Martin, Justin McCarthy, Peter Donald Ober, Jeffrey Schubert, L3149 Willoughby Hills: L4011 Chesterfield: Douglas Calvert, L4126 Romulus: Naldrett, Richard Oury, Paul Quinn, Josue Recio, Ricardo Chrisoher Niess, L3203 Blue Ash: Robert Winkelman, John Fauls, L4827 Suttons Bay- Bingham Professional Remon, Randal Rodrigues, John Rogan, Jeremiah Ryan, L3518 West Chester: Bruce Haselrig, L3558 Violet Fire Fighters: Alfred Chimoski John Shea, Dennis Smith, Robert Straub, Frank Vultaggio, Township: Richard Leaver, L3568 Brunswick Fire MINNESOTA L0101 Duluth: Ronald Booth, Gregory Michael Weinschreider, Brent Whittier, Brian Wynne, L0274 Fighters: Larry Crissinger, L3676 Canton Township: Scott Church, L0173 Hibbing: Orlando Abate, L0520 Rochester: White Plains: John Calderola, Anthony Calderone, Dwayne Johnson, L3896 Professional Fire Fighters Harrison Thomas Krueger, Kenneth Moyer, Matthew Mueller, L1323 Davis, Frank Vieni, L0280 Syracuse: Keith Brown, Alex Township: Robert Humble, L4265 Uhrichsville: Loren Moorhead: John Peterson Cimino, Kenneth Heffernan, Kenneth Irving, John Kresser, Parson MISSISSIPPI L1469 Pascagoula: Richard McClung, Larry Livingston, Edgar McGuire, Mark Raite, David Reeves, OKLAHOMA L0157 Oklahoma City: Ivory Brent, Mark L4615 McComb Fire Fighters Association: Scott Jackson, Stephen Riehlman, William Roberts, L0282 Buffalo: Fielder, Bryant Gassett, Chris Hoppes, Charles Jay, Homer Billy Nettles Heriberto Baez, Michael Blas, John Corcoran, Sean Doctor, Jones, L0176 Tulsa: David Casey, Gordon Thompson, Harold Emerson, Jerome Fenderson, Patrick Garvey, Gregory L0194 Sapulpa: Dannie Whitehouse, L0200 Bartlesville: MISSOURI L0042 Kansas City: Keith Cochran, Salvatore Halbina, John Harter, Thomas Liberto, Mark Loughran, Monteleone, Todd Park, L0073 Fire and EMS Larry Topping, Roy Wright, L1077 Claremore: Gary Smith, Manuel Martinez, Timothy McLaughlin, James Miner, L2066 Midwest City: Michael Musshafen, Francis Perry, Professionals of Saint Louis: Kendall Bise, David Crawford, Richard O’Keefe, David Perry, Edward Pitz, Robert Quinn, Donald Rutherford, Leonard Wiesehan, James Wolfslau, L2284 McAlester: Danny Bennett, L2479 Ponca City: Nelson Riollano, Geneal Wagstaff, William Webster, Dwight Clifford Lampe, Jim Payne L1730 Raytown: William Schoffstall, L2665 Professional Winfrey, Gregory Wisniewski, L0287 Long Beach Fire Fighters of Eastern Missouri: Steven Mossotti, James Professional Fire Fighters Association: Michael Geller, ONTARIO L0142 London: Peter Hawkins, Brian Tate, Brian Schneider L0628 Yonkers Mutual Aid Association: Philip Armacida, Weaver, L0162 Ottawa: Frank Chapman, Glen Dolan, Greg MONTANA L0008 Great Falls: Talbert Bryan, Joseph Robert Chirurgi, Steven Domenech, Claude Downing, Kyran Golds, Daniel Legault, Steven McFarlane, Kerry Ramsay, Russell, Dwane Sutphin, L0613 Bozeman Fire Fighters Dunn, Arthur Econom, Dominick Fornabio, Michael Glenn, Daniel Richardson, Dean Rousson, Gordon Scott, Brian Association: Tim Shearman, L2457 Missoula-Rural: John Alexander Hanon, Stephen Humanitzki, Gregory Kantor, Smith, Bernadus Van Leyen, L0193 Thunder Bay: Jamie Fidler Kevin McGrath, Michael Mercurio, Michael Miller, William Eade, L0284 North Bay: Timothy Mainville, L0288 Parker, Timothy Powers, James Reilly, Eduardo Rivera, Jose Hamilton: Peter Galinis, John Grimshaw, David Jones, NEBRASKA L0385 Omaha: Michael Beaudin, David Mann, Rodriguez, Scott Sherkus, Brian Walsh, Peter Waschenko, Russell Lloyd, Stephen Rea, Gerald Salhani, Guy St. James, L. Scott Muschall Matthew Williams, L0714 Niagara Falls: Enrico Frosolone, L0455 Windsor Professional Fire Fighters: Edward NEVADA L1265 Sparks: Roy Gonzales, Jim Reid, L1908 L0729 Binghamton: William Marion, Brian O’Loughlin, Dickson, Ronald Hagman, James Maxim, Terry Proulx, Kyle Clark County: Timothy Brooks, Lance Ryness, Kevin Steele, L0737 Ithaca Professional Fire Fighters Association: Wilkinson, Michael Woods, L0492 Sarnia: Kevin McHarg, L2423 Elko: Daniel Bledsoe, Michael Glasgow James Crowley, Albert Foote, Michael Hagin, Willis Sheldon, L0497 Belleville: Ray Ellis, John Stephenson, L0499 L0854 New York Uniformed Fire Officers Association: Cambridge: Jim Springall, L0529 Sault Ste. Marie: Wayne NEW BRUNSWICK L0999 Moncton: Gregory Ross, Leslie McDermid, Brent Swift, L0531 Owen Sound: Rob Thomas, White, Ward Williston, L1053 Fredericton: Mark Nowlan John Calamari, Edward Cancro, Cornelius Cooper, William Croak, Allen Crowley, Victor D’Aquino, Michael De Gennaro, L0534 Stratford: Paul Bourdreau, Jim McCaffery, L0791 NORTH CAROLINA L0660 Charlotte: Robert Brisley, David James Dillon, John Donnelly, Ira Feirstein, Jeffrey Waterloo: Steven Gladstone, Mark Schedewitz, L1068 Brunson, Michael Corigliano, Ronald Dunn, Bingham Hefner, Fleischmann, Joseph Garafola, Frank Gissi, Michael Hance, Brampton: Tina Baird, Vern Mills, Graham Sproule, L1182 Robert Holliday, Larry Kepley, Walter Kinsey, David Newell, Thomas Henri, Thomas Hyland, Kenneth Kearns, William Thorold: Paul Sorrell, L1595 Vaughan Professional Fire Dick Newhouse, Richard Riley, James Shaffner, June Stilwell, Kelly, Daniel Lind, Patrick Lyons, Vincent Mavaro, James Fighters: Marty Bromley, Frank Guyette, James Hamm, Ken David Thornburg, L0947 Professional Fire Fighters Of McLoughlin, Wayne McPartland, Frank Montagna, Robert Harmon, Robert Spragg, L4686 Caledon Professional Fire Greensboro: David Brame, Jeffrey Morton Morris, Daniel Mulhall, Robert Murray, Timothy O’Connor, Fighters Association: Peter Lewko NEW HAMPSHIRE L2892 Salem: Thomas Tetreault, Brian Pritchard, Philip Russo, Richard Sautner, Thomas OREGON L0043 Portland: Richard Jones, L1062 L3264 Hooksett Permanent Fire Fighters Association: Shortell, Frederick Spall, Roderic Tierney, Michael Toussaint, Gresham: Kimberley Coxen, Neal Dietz, Rick Sieverson, James Anderson Louis Troisi, David Turner, Charles Vella, James Ventre, L1159 Clackamas County: Tom Crowder, Thomas Deeter, L0963 Lockport: Donald Stoll, L1071 Rochester: Matthew NEW JERSEY L1064 Jersey City Fire Officers: Andrew L1395 Springfield: Curtis Bean, Clifford Kimball, Mike Baylock, Clayton Eckerd, Mark Strzyzynski, L2007 Albany: Johnson, Armando Roman, L1066 Jersey City: Troy Metzger, Brian Parmelee, L1431 Medford: Lance Gray, Dominick DiBlasi, David Smith, Andrew Van Schoick, Andrzejewski, Perry Buchicchio, Phillip Buturla, Roscoe L3256 Hood River: Douglas Epperson, Diedrick Snelling Stephan Zwack, L2484 Herkimer: Joseph Brown, David Camp, David Carroll, Thomas Cleary, Cosimo Corallo, Kuehnle, L2501 Salamanca: William Ferguson PENNSYLVANIA F0246 Tobyhanna: Frank Malanga, Lawrence Cureton, Joseph Czachowski, Patrick Del Piano, L0022 Philadelphia: Barry Boone, Nicholas Fortuna, Kevin Joseph Donargo, John Feminello, Edward Fischl, James NORTH CAROLINA L0660 Charlotte: Robert Brisley, David Jackson, Lisa Marshall-Lackey, Raymond Rios, L0293 Erie: Forenza, Philip Germain, William Holland, Nelson Jusino, Brunson, Michael Corigliano, Ronald Dunn, Bingham Hefner, James Allen, L0319 Lancaster: Terry Bracken, Steven Dennis Keenan, Robert Killeen, Kevin Leonard, Christopher Robert Holliday, Larry Kepley, Walter Kinsey, David Newell, Dick Ditzler, Brian Klugh, Robert Pennypacker, Frank Pritz, Liegel, Michael Martin, Nelson Martinez, Mario Morales, Newhouse, Richard Riley, James Shaffner, June Stilwell, David Thomas Szurok, Timothy Wilk, L0428 Harrisburg: Andrew James Moran, John Noesges, Nelson Ortiz, John Reilly, Thornburg, L0947 Professional Fire Fighters Of Greensboro: Henry, Michael Horst, James McHenry, Mary Roseberry, Hector Sabio, Steven Sawaged, Rodney Thompson, Rafael David Brame, Jeffrey Morton Timothy Walde, L0860 Dunmore: Benjamin Domenick, 44 FIRE FIGHTER WINTER 2014 L0955 Uniontown: Mark Lovey, L2045 Hanover: Joseph Houston: Terry Blackburn, Steven Bradford, Benny Delmar Ragland, L2499 Bristol: Michael Leonard, Dennis Myers, L2102 Corry: Scott Rooker, L2844 Lower Merion Hernandez, Billy Kallies, Curtis Lea, John Paetow, Daniel McCracken, Rick Slagle, L2803 Chesterfield County Professional Fire Fighters Association: Kevin Mitchell Sanstra, Gilbert Tobias, Mark Williamson, L0367 Texarkana: Professional Fire Fighters Assn.: David Bailey, James RHODE ISLAND L0732 Woonsocket: Joseph Theroux, John Tice, L0399 Beaumont: Michael Dunham, Kevin Hart, Jones, Mark Nugent, William Slack, Albert Thompson, L4202 L0799 Providence: Michael LeGault, L1104 West Michael Holland, Lon Nesom, L0440 Fort Worth: Scott Hanover: Russell Acors Warwick: Mark Sicco, L1261 Pawtucket Fire Fighters: Gabriel, Billy Hamilton, Bennett Nix, Randy Switzer, L0542 WASHINGTON I0024 Hanford: Christopher Artz, Steve Bell, Edward Shottek, L1950 Johnston: Michelle LeGault, Amarillo: James Bain, Terry Bates, William Risner, L0571 Chuck Groff, Chris Lockard, L0027 Seattle: Roland Falb, Kenneth Moore, Dennis Poirer, L2334 North Providence: Galveston: Edwin Schlitzberger, L0624 San Antonio: Roger Leonard Hammond, Michael Linker, Stuart Ono, L0029 Stephen Campbell, Richard Hall, Everett McCain, William Gonzalez, Arlene Hartman, Gilbert Longoria, David Martinez, Spokane: Mike Giampietri, Kevin Smathers, L0452 Morrissey, Nathan Trouve, L3023 Lincoln Rescue: Dave Hector Morales, Matt Muniz, Juan Rios, Edward Robles, Vancouver: Michael Phillips, L0656 Port Angeles: Brian Levesque, Paul St. Pierre, L3372 Central Coventry Fire Robert Savage, David Trevino, L0872 Laredo: Sergio Garcia, Wheeler, L0726 Pierce County Professional Fire Fighters: District: Scott Murray Juan Meza, David Piton, Juan Ramon, Gerardo Rangel, Brian Zlock, L0864 Renton: Mark Brehm, L1052 Richland: L0883 Tyler: Robbie Wade, L0972 Lubbock: Rick Flournoy, Thomas Damborg, L1352 Valley Fire Fighters: Doug SOUTH DAKOTA L0814 Sioux Falls: Arvid LeRud, Jeffrey L0975 Austin: Bobby Johnson, Thomas Richardson, L1044 Winters, L4166 Mitchell: Tory Kaufman Alexander, Karl Hoel, Gerry Maitland, L1604 Bellevue: Abilene: Larry Lambert, Robin Talley, Joe Tidwell, Dennis Bruce Ansell, L1983 Mount Vernon: David Bond, Michael SASKATCHEWAN L0080 Saskatoon: Adrien Chenier, Woodard, L1173 Baytown: Terri Johnson, L1259 Texas Voss, L2409 Tumwater: John Foster, L2878 Eastside Fire Donald Kurmey, Mark Thomson City: Kenneth Beach, L1293 Garland: Jeff Tokar, L1518 & Rescue: Kenneth Burnside, Stanley Favini, L2933 Mesquite: Jack Castles, L1665 Odessa: James Ballard, TENNESSEE I0014 Tullahoma: Alan Tate, L0140 Clallam County Fire District 3: Paul Rynearson, L3542 Jack Hamilton, Dale Land, L2073 Irving: Benjamin Cox, Max Sunnyside Professional Fire Fighters: Lloyd Hazzard, Nashville: James Armstrong, Stief Fuller, Richard Honeycutt, Gorman, L3164 Lancaster: Gary Lantz, Marcus Smith, Jerry Smith, L0820 Chattanooga: Raymond Moore, David L3711 Spokane County Fire District 8: Martin Long, L3320 Ennis: Lonnie Creager, Billy Lockhart, L3493 L4333 Stevens County: Russell Armstrong Pemberton, James Stone, L1346 Oak Ridge: Richard Palestine: Patrick Murphy, J. M. Pell, Vic Poff, Randal Kaylor, L1784 Memphis: Robert Allison, Kenneth: S. 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WINTER 2014 FIRE FIGHTER 45 In Memorium of Those Who Have Served
Local Name ...... Local Name, State Local Name ...... Local Name, State Local Name ...... Local Name, State F0297 Chester Lanehart ...... Andrews Air Force Base, MD I0014 Alan Tate ...... Tullahoma, TN L0068 Jerry Salyers ...... Norfolk, VA L0734 Ernest Florentine ...... Baltimore, MD L0002 Terrell Akons ...... Chicago, IL L0073 Larry Stringer ...... Saint Louis, MO L0734 Charles Hammerbacher Baltimore, MD L0002 Dennis Beauregard ...... Chicago, IL L0093 Michael Ashworth ...... Cleveland, OH L0734 Milton Hasselhoff ...... Baltimore, MD L0002 Clarence Berger ...... Chicago, IL L0093 William Walker ...... Cleveland, OH L0734 Larry Hemstetter ...... Baltimore, MD L0002 Ralph Brown ...... Chicago, IL L0094 Duane Aponte ...... New York, NY L0734 Andrew Hoffman ...... Baltimore, MD L0002 John Byrnes ...... Chicago, IL L0122 Andre Hills ...... Jacksonville, FL L0734 Raymond Marshall ...... Baltimore, MD L0002 Patrick Cummings ...... Chicago, IL L0124 Robert Baals ...... Fort Wayne, IN L0734 Charles Mathews ...... Baltimore, MD L0002 Ronald Direnzo ...... Chicago, IL L0124 James Belot ...... Fort Wayne, IN L0734 James Mullen ...... Baltimore, MD L0002 Brian Hurn ...... Chicago, IL L0124 Thomas Reich ...... Fort Wayne, IN L0734 Edward Nesbit ...... Baltimore, MD L0002 Herbert Johnson ...... Chicago, IL L0140 Terry Demonbreun ...... Nashville, TN L0734 Lawrence Sterling ...... Baltimore, MD L0002 Anthony Konieczka ...... Chicago, IL L0140 Harry McGonigal ...... Nashville, TN L0734 Edward Turner ...... Baltimore, MD L0002 Donald Mallory ...... Chicago, IL L0140 George Owen ...... Nashville, TN L0858 John Larusso ...... Denver, CO L0002 James Minch ...... Chicago, IL L0140 Michael Reasonover ....Nashville, TN L0870 James Johnson ...... Owensboro, KY L0002 Bart Murphy ...... Chicago, IL L0140 James Seay ...... Nashville, TN L0936 R. J. Ahlers ...... Corpus Christi, TX L0002 Ricky Polk ...... Chicago, IL L0140 Michael Turner ...... Nashville, TN L0936 Loren Kasper ...... Corpus Christi, TX L0002 James Rzonca ...... Chicago, IL L0140 Randall Young ...... Nashville, TN L0964 Edward Buttner ...... BFOA, MD L0002 Fred Steinert ...... Chicago, IL L0144 Michael Croker ...... Brockton, MA L0995 J. M. Loving ...... Richmond, VA L0002 Gerald Sullivan ...... Chicago, IL L0144 Robert Murray ...... Brockton, MA L1066 Brian Ellerson ...... Jersey City, NJ L0002 Robert Suster ...... Chicago, IL L0157 Jimmy Hunter ...... Oklahoma City, OK L1234 Jeff Green ...... Yuma, AZ L0002 John Wroblewski ...... Chicago, IL L0157 Robert Warcup ...... Oklahoma City, OK L1271 Jon White ...... Surrey, BC L0022 Dennis Allmond ...... Philadelphia, PA L0215 Anthony Adyniec ...... Milwaukee, WI L1311 Howard Snyder ...... Baltimore County, MD L0022 Timothy Gill ...... Philadelphia, PA L0215 Kennth Butz ...... Milwaukee, WI L1347 Ronald LaVache ...... Watertown, MA L0022 James Hering ...... Philadelphia, PA L0215 John Helm ...... Milwaukee, WI L1463 Henry Chang ...... Hawaiian Islands, HI L0022 Sean Hogan ...... Philadelphia, PA L0215 Robert Krejci ...... Milwaukee, WI L1463 John Mitchell ...... Hawaiian Islands, HI L0022 Edward Jordan ...... Philadelphia, PA L0215 Roger Peelen ...... Milwaukee, WI L1507 Gary Patzelt ...... South San Francisco, CA L0022 Frank Jorett ...... Philadelphia, PA L0215 Ronald Turner ...... Milwaukee, WI L1590 Donald Lathbury ...... Wilmington, DE L0022 John Karpowicz ...... Philadelphia, PA L0439 Paul Weidner ...... Elgin, IL L1590 Stephen Wienkowitz ....Wilmington, DE L0022 Frank Kubat ...... Philadelphia, PA L0528 William Rapp ...... Niagara Falls, ON L1689 Norman Opal ...... Fremont, CA L0022 William Magrann ...... Philadelphia, PA L0587 Patrick Murdock ...... Miami, FL L1784 James Mabe ...... Memphis, TN L0022 William McDowell ...... Philadelphia, PA L0632 Paul Alline ...... New Orleans, LA L1784 Kenneth Moore ...... Memphis, TN L0022 Richard Ploucher ...... Philadelphia, PA L0632 Edward Brunet ...... New Orleans, LA L1784 Jimmy Morris ...... Memphis, TN L0022 Edward Scardigli ...... Philadelphia, PA L0632 Arthur Hosli ...... New Orleans, LA L1891 Jeffrey Kinbacher ...... Boynton Beach, FL L0022 Reginald Simmons ...... Philadelphia, PA L0632 William Kerner ...... New Orleans, LA L2061 Andrew Czarnecki ...... Hoffman Estates, IL L0028 John Nicol ...... Schenectady, NY L0632 Wilson Ledet ...... New Orleans, LA L2066 Don Mariano ...... Midwest City, OK L0034 Homer Worley ...... Little Rock, AR L0632 Shawn Murphy ...... New Orleans, LA L2068 Robert Dickerson ...... Fairfax County, VA L0036 Walter Cobak ...... Washington, DC L0632 Michael O’Brien ...... New Orleans, LA L2141 Daniel Harden ...... Alexandria, VA L0036 Michael Cohee ...... Washington, DC L0632 Robert Sauter ...... New Orleans, LA L2260 Frank Molina ...... Mesa, AZ L0036 Tyrone Farrow ...... Washington, DC L0639 Cliff Taylor ...... Parma, OH L2648 Bryan Beaman ...... Kenton, OH L0036 Raymond Fraizier ...... Washington, DC L0682 Allan Parker ...... Winston-Salem, NC L2959 Jerry Rothgeb ...... Martin County, FL L0036 James Thorne ...... Washington, DC L0718 Leonard D’Amico ...... Boston, MA L2959 Chris Sorensen ...... Martin County, FL L0042 Anthony Bruno ...... Kansas City, MO L0718 Edward Saniuk ...... Boston, MA L3066 Jeffery Moore ...... United Yavapai, AZ L0042 William Dady ...... Kansas City, MO L0728 Jerry Gould ...... Bedford, IN L3080 Theodore Bradshaw ....Metro-Broward, FL L0042 Joseph Sorisso ...... Kansas City, MO L0734 Thomas Alt ...... Baltimore, MD L3907 James Hill ...... Sycamore Township, OH L0042 Raymond Venerable ....Kansas City, MO L0734 William Cronin ...... Baltimore, MD L4321 Thomas Giordano ...... Broward County, FL L0065 Charles Patterson ...... Knoxville, TN L0734 James Dieter ...... Baltimore, MD
46 FIRE FIGHTER WINTER 2014 LAST ALARM We Honor Those Who Lost Their Lives in the Line of Duty
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