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ere’s no doubt that this 2016 election was one of the most We will still need to play aggressive divisive and negative elections for president of the United defense on a number of issues and States in our lifetimes. e dissension and acrimony over this look for opportunities in this election divided not only the country, but also our union. difficult environment to move e internal divisions in the IAFF were deep. Your legislation and produce policies that Executive Board knew that, because they, like I do, travel are important to the safety, health around and talk with our leaders and members. We also and job security of the more than conducted comprehensive polls and focus groups. And in 303,000 members we represent. very strong terms, our affiliate leaders and members made it ere will be lawmakers on Capitol clear — taking sides in this presidential election could tear Hill we can work with and there will our union apart. be lawmakers who stridently oppose So, as the ones elected to lead this IAFF, we decided to put us. But like we’ve done through the Harold A. Schaitberger our union’s solidarity and our members’ best interests first years, regardless of which political and, as we’ve communicated a number of times throughout party is in power, we have always the election season, we did not endorse a candidate for found a way to get things done on POTUS. No single candidate was worth destroying the unity our members’ behalf. that has made this union strong and able to punch way above Our union has thrived under Republican presidents and its weight-class. GOP-controlled Congresses. In 1976, I stood in the Rose I’ve received emails and texts from a few people internally Garden while President Gerald Ford signed the Public Safety who have taken issue with our non-endorsement in the race Officers Benefit (PSOB) into law. for POTUS. ey say we could have made a difference for one A few years later, when Ronald Reagan was president and candidate or the other. While I respect their passion for Senator John Tower (R-TX) chaired the Armed Services wanting to step into the fray of this election and for their Committee, we passed anti-privatization legislation to protect willingness to say so, the Executive Board and I respectfully the jobs of fire fighters working in the Department of Defense disagree. and we worked with Congress and the White House to If we, the IAFF, had taken a side in the race for president — develop the Section 7(k) fire fighter overtime standard that either side — we would have likely had multiple locals go the remains in place to this day. other way, and we would have seen an internal civil war Under President George W. Bush, I had the privilege of among our members. With the incredible changes in the being in the Oval Office as he signed Hometown Heroes into electoral map at the national level in this election, either of law. During his administration, with both Houses of Congress those things occurring would have significantly diluted our in GOP hands, we enacted SAFER, doubled PSOB Benefits, effectiveness at all levels of politics and would have crippled passed the HELPS retiree health care proposal and our ability to influence the election one way or the other. safeguarded and expanded overtime rights under the FLSA. Taking sides would have also severely damaged our union’s e point is that no matter who occupies the White House, biggest strength — our solidarity. While the country remains or who controls Congress, we always find ways to improve the divided in the wake of the election, and now must begin to lives and livelihoods of our members. heal, our solidarity remains strong in the IAFF. As so many of you have heard me say during the time I have Remaining neutral also provided us with an advantage now had the honor of serving as your General President, so much that the election is over — we now have a chance to get things of our success comes from our political strength and because done on our members’ behalf with the incoming we always have each other’s backs. With the results of this administration at a time when virtually every other union is past election, that remains truer than ever. facing the prospect of getting nothing accomplished. Whether there is a Republican or a Democrat in the White I’m not naïve. I know that the new administration and 115th House, we have always found a way to get things done. And Congress will be challenging for this IAFF, but our union is now that this election is over, we are positioned well and unique in the House of Labor because of our bipartisan ready to work with President-elect and the approach to politics at all levels. We are proud of our 115th Congress. relationships in the U.S. House and Senate, with friends on both sides of the aisle, in both chambers of Congress. We have already identified that some of our friends are part of the president-elect transition team. And because we have friends in both parties making the laws, we have an opportunity to improve the lives and livelihoods of our members.

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I want to start by saying what an honor it is to serve as your General Vincent J. Bollon Affiliate Leadership Training Secretary-Treasurer of our great International. Aer attending my first Summit (ALTS) in Anaheim, California, Executive Board meeting since being sworn in at our Convention in August, I January 24-26, 2017. e workshop provides a walked away with a renewed respect and admiration for the leadership you’ve synopsis of secretary and treasurer chosen to represent you at the very top of our union. responsibilities, as well as practical information ese are exciting times in the IAFF with burgeoning new initiatives and a and resources. A panel of experienced rock solid foundation to meet our challenges head on. You have a great team secretary-treasurers will answer questions. leading you! ALTS offers a wide variety of workshops Edward A. Kelly designed to help affiliate leaders, both new and 2016 Convention experienced, become more effective in their union officer roles. I strongly e 2016 Constitution and Bylaws will be published and mailed in the recommend that all affiliate leaders attend. coming weeks to all affiliate presidents. It will also be available in digital form to our membership on our web site. As soon as it’s available, we will notify all Dues Deductions Alternatives affiliate leaders by email. Legislation prohibiting a union’s ability to deduct dues has already passed in Pursuant to the resolutions passed at our Convention in August, the per several states, and similar legislation has been filed or potentially will be filed capita tax for our members rose 14 cents to $13.37. is is the lowest per cap in several others. My office is currently surveying all secretary-treasurers of increase since the 1970s. e breakdown of those resolutions is below: state organizations on whether or not this is a reality or possibility in their states. In order to assist our affiliates struggling with dues deduction or that Budget Adjustment for Inflation 6 cents may face it in the future, we are in the process of exploring innovative ways to Minimal Resolutions for Local Leadership Awards help affiliates collect dues and assist in their organizing efforts. and Emeritus for Secretary-Treasurer Miller and Vice Presidents Ferguson, Taylor and West ½ cents Pensions Behavioral Wellness & Suicide Prevention 3 ½ cents Our actuary has informed us that in 2018, the mortality tables will be Wildland/WUI 1 ½ cents updated, which may impact actuarial evaluations and projected unfunded NFPA Standards Representatives 2 ½ cents liabilities. As we know, this will spawn whitepapers from right-wing think Total: .14 tanks, followed by newspaper editorials and ultimately pension legislation detrimental to post-employment security. Our state affiliates need to be Also of note is that in 2018, per capita costs for both the Union Activities prepared to fight any attacks on our pensions and mobilize accordingly. Justice Fund resolution (passed in 2014) and the Behavioral Wellness and Politics never takes a break. We need to be educating our allies in office and Suicide Awareness and Prevention resolution (passed in 2016) will sunset, fostering new relationships before we are lobbying specific bills. Our Pension reducing per cap by 6 and 3.5 cents, respectively. Since inception two years Department stands at the ready to assist our affiliates. ago, four recipients have received assistance under the Union Activities Justice Fund for a total of $35,579. Change of Office Audit Further into the future, the resolution providing for the Fallen Fire Fighter As a matter of prudent fiscal responsibility, I have hired an outside auditor to Memorial renovation (21 cents) will also sunset. If you have visited the conduct a “change of officer” audit. Although I do not anticipate any issues, I Memorial in Colorado Springs you will agree that your per capita was well believe the organization will benefit from ensuring that we are keeping pace invested. with industry standards and best-practices. e report should be completed e new denominational balloting used at the Convention worked exactly in mid-January, and I will report on it to the Executive Board at its February as expected. e issues that were brought to the Elections Committee for 2017 meeting. resolution were handled expeditiously by Chair Dave Gillotte (Los Angeles County Local 1014) and Vice Chair Randy Wyse (Jacksonville Local 122). We New Secretary-Treasurer Toolkit and Resources will apply the lessons learned into our planning and preparation for the Providing information our affiliate leaders need to do their job is high on my elections in 2020. list of priorities. e work our leaders do is difficult enough without having to search high and low for information. In the coming months, the IAFF web Form 990 LABOR ORGANIZATION ANNUAL REPORT site and Secretary-Treasurer Resources toolkit will be updated in order to Every treasurer or secretary-treasurer has the fiduciary responsibility that make it easier to access information. includes keeping accurate and up-to-date records for their local. All locals are required to have an Employer Identification Number (EIN) from the Internal Politics 2016 Revenue Service (IRS), attainable online through the IRS web site or by Politics by its very nature is polarizing. e 2016 presidential election is widely calling the IRS directly. Locals are also required to file Federal Form 990 with considered one of the most polarizing in history. Do not despair. the IRS. Filing is due the 15th day of the 5th month following the end of the To quote Eugene Debs, a union leader on the railroads in the late 1800s: fiscal year (i.e., due May 15 for December 31 year-end). Failure to file for “Ten thousand times has the labor movement stumbled and bruised itself. We three consecutive years will result in the IRS revoking your not-for-profit have been enjoined by the courts, assaulted by thugs, charged by the militia, status. Loss of this status is recoverable, but it takes an incredible amount of traduced by the press, frowned upon in public opinion, and deceived by time, energy and effort to be reinstated. It is critical to file yearly. Your local’s politicians. But not withstanding all this and all these, labor is today the most gross receipts determine which form you are required to file: vital and potential power this planet has ever known.” • Form 990-N: Gross receipts less than $50,000 e greatest political ally we as fire fighters have ever had, and ever will have, • Form 990-EZ or Form 990: Gross receipts less than $200,000 and total assets is each other. less than $500,000 Be You, Be Strong, Be Fire Fighters! • Form 990: Gross receipts greater than $200,000 and total assets greater than $500,000 In solidarity,

IAFF affiliates fall under the IAFF blanket not-for-profit exemption as a 501(c)5 and must provide us with their EIN, but this does not eliminate requirement to file a Form 990 annually. is issue and many others will be covered in the “Best Practices for Secretary-Treasurers” workshop at the 2017 FROM THE GENERAL SECRETARY-TREASURER 7

All-Inclusive Union local by increasing unity and solidarity oppositional state politics, we faced a quoted, “If this negotiation doesn’t work, among its members, pro-actively steep challenge on the Holy Grail of all we will proceed to shut down the pension Dear President Schaitberger: promoting diversity and inclusion within issues — preserving our defined benefit plans for all new employees.” While to On behalf of the Elected Human your organization and ensuring that all system for generations to come. some that may seem to be an idle threat, Relations Committee, I would like to thank members are represented fairly, equally In Arizona, public safety has for years the evidence that it would be true was all the delegates assembled at the 53rd and without discrimination. It also serves faced a serious pension crisis. The first clear to our leadership. Specifically, these IAFF Convention for their overwhelming as a resource for your organization on part of the crisis is the state’s Public same legislators already had shut down unanimous support of Resolution No.11. these human relation issues while Safety Personnel Retirement System itself. the defined benefit plan for themselves, The passage of this resolution (as handling those problems at a low level Funded at only 47 percent and with very the elected officials. amended) expands the IAFF Elected lettbefore they become grievances or s low investment returns year after year, the With so much working against us, we Human Relations Committee from 12 to litigation. math on the PSPRS plan has been had some difficult choices to make to win 16 members. The addition of these four Your IAFF Elected Human Relations nothing short of horrific. Given those this fight — and we made them. The elected positions, which comprise two Committee also has many training numbers, the only relief in sight has been solution we ultimately supported — along LGBTQ members and two disabled/ modules that address establishing a for public safety employers to pay 50-75 with Arizona’s police organizations — handicapped members, is all-important. human relations committee, determining percent of payroll to involved doing things like adding tiers to This progressive approach takes our your human relations committee’s fund pension costs. the public safety great union to the next step membership, establishing responsibilities, While this may seem pension fund, demonstrating our positive commitment to dealing with a budget, accurate minutes, like “their problem,” making small being all-inclusive. I would also like to regular reports, effective communications, the net effect has changes to thank General President Harold regularly scheduled meetings addressing been years with no contribution rates Schaitberger, General Secretary-Treasurer complaints and so much more. raises, reduced and adding a defined Tom Miller, all of the District Vice We have a wealth of information that staffing, equipment contribution option for Presidents, Elected Human Relations our members can access on our IAFF web and overtime, all some future public Committee members and staff who page at www.iaff.org/humanrelations. consequences that safety workers. This worked diligently on this resolution. Take time and review this information or have hurt our members and our families. was a difficult fight, Our IAFF Elected Human Relations contact any of the IAFF Elected Human The second component of the Arizona and for much of it the outcome was in Committee handles many difficult issues Relations Committee members. crisis is our politics. As arguably one of doubt. It was not a fight that I sought, but I with a positive approach, which, in the Once again, I would like to thank all the the most conservative states in the union, knew that we had to steer the train or get long run, promotes a more cohesive local delegates assembled at our Convention the statewide playing field for years has run over. I understood that “hope” was not union, saves our affiliates countless for their unanimous support of the been slanted away from public safety a plan to save our system. I deeply dollars and enhances unity and success. resolution and, as always, feel free to organizations like ours. In addition, major appreciate local fire fighter leaders The hands-on technical assistance contact your District Vice President, state national right-wing organizations have staying the course, in spite of the political program provided by the IAFF Human or provincial leaders or any Human become deeply rooted in day-to-day risks in making the difficult changes in Relations Committee furnishes direct Relations Committee member if you need Arizona politics. For them, destroying our pension to preserve it. customized support to members when further assistance. defined benefit plans altogether has long The end result? By working out a needed. stood at the top of their mission political compromise, we achieved our I encourage every local, state and Nick Felton statements. By spending millions of goal of saving the defined benefit pension provincial organization to establish, within President dollars in political races, those groups for generations to come. In so doing, we their own internal governance, a Human New Orleans, LA Local 632 have begun to wield tremendous power in improved Arizona fire fighters’ ability to Relations Committee. Establishing a the halls of our state Capitol. stave off future DB plan attacks and to Human Relations Committee is a proven The Pension Crisis in Arizona Going into the pension reform process, achieve progress on wages, staffing and way to help your local, state or provincial we stood eyeball to eyeball with very positive legislative issues. organization sort through the Dear President Schaitberger: powerful forces that had the ears of a The Arizona lesson, from our opportunities and challenges that diversity For fire fighters across Arizona, the past majority of our lawmakers and Arizona’s perspective, is about meeting challenges presents. It can assist your organization in two years have involved a series of newly elected conservative governor. head on and exercising political strategy resolving conflict and developing a political issues that no public safety During the deliberations, one of the most that allows an organization like ours to proactive strategy. This same Human organization would envy. Besides budget powerful lawmakers in the state was win today in an effort to keep winning Relations Committee can benefit your cuts, anti-labor sentiment and tomorrow. Faced with an oncoming train and no easy way to get off the tracks, we boarded the train and took over steering. IAFF Welcomes New Locals In the end, we reached a destination we can live with and we avoided getting run The new IAFF affiliates listed below joined the International in July through September 2016 down by a speeding locomotive. We are now in a stronger place to fight for a Local 2321 Local 5078 Local 5102 Local 5105 Local 5110 better future for all members. Marysville Fire Fighters Coshocton County Southern Chester County Concord Professional Fire Atoka Fire Fighters President Jason Bellinger Professional EMS Association Paramedics Fighters President Raymond Pelletier Bryan Jeffries 9 members President Jennifer Hettinger President Michael Gerisch President Phillip Sumpter 11 members President Marysville, CA 36 members 7 members 10 members Atoka, TN Coshocton County, OH West Grove, PA Nappanee, IN Professional Fire Fighters of Arizona Local 4716 Local 5111 Star Fire Fighters Local 5097 Local 5103 Local 5106 Northshore Professional Fire Presidential Daniel Garringer New Lenox Professional Fire County of Orange Fire and Grand Valley Fire Protection Fighters 12 members Fighters EMS District President Sean Thomas Star, ID President Dan Vanek President Erica Wood President Anthony Wade 19 members Correction 12 members 19 members 9 members Lucerne, CA Local 4745 New Lenox, IL Orange, VA Parachute, CO Willow Park Fire Fighters In the Summer 2016 issue, Association Local 5101 Local 5104 Local 5107 Oak Ridge, TN Local 1346 President Jared Junker Shepherdsville Professional Jarrell Professional Fire Northstar Professional Fire member James Thursby was 7 members Fire Fighters Association Fighters Association Fighters incorrectly listed as retired. Willow Park, TX President Paul Vance President Cliff Tschoerner, Jr. Association, CA Brother Thursby is an active 10 members 6 members President Andy Ham Shepherdsville, KY Jarrell, TX 17 members member of Local 1346. Truckee, CA

LETTERS 9 This Facebook post was written by Indian River treating it,” says General President Harold County, FL Local 2201 member and Battalion Schaitberger. “We have an obligation to make sure Chief David Dangerfield just hours before his we provide our members every path possible to death by suicide on October 15, 2016. recover from post-traumatic stress and the damage it can do to their lives and their families.” Behavioral health has always been an important David Dangerfield had been fighting component of the IAFF/IAFC Wellness-Fitness post-traumatic stress disorder for years. He Initiative (WFI). As more has been learned about committed suicide on October 15, 2016. post-traumatic stress and its impact on members, the Like all IAFF members, he had responded IAFF has begun an intensive effort to bring it out of the to any number of traumatic events, many shadows to help members start the process towards of them tragic. All of this trauma has a cumulative effect, recovery. oen developing into post-traumatic stress. It’s a serious and chronic “Last year, aer we published a cover story in Fire Fighter Quarterly condition that can ruin the careers of fire fighters and paramedics, [Winter 2015 ] on the subject, we were inundated with calls from destroy families and jeopardize public and fire fighter safety. members looking for help,” says Assistant to the General President While it’s always existed, post-traumatic stress is just now for Health and Safety Patrick Morrison. becoming more widely recognized as a major issue affecting all Since then, the International has launched an initiative to ranks in the fire service. develop a behavioral health peer-to-peer training program. is “An alarming number of members are struggling with behavioral summer, the IAFF brought members to the Kitchen Table to tell and stress-related conditions, but there are very few programs for their stories of recognizing they had a problem and forging their

10 Post-traumatic stress affects fire fighters and paramedics at double the rate of the general population. path to recovery [go to www.youtube.com/iav to watch this Boston, MA Local 718 who also took part in Kitchen Table. episode of Kitchen Table]. Designed from the ground up, the Center will provide “Once I started my recovery program, I realized I wasn’t the only one comprehensive and best-practice treatment from clinicians who who thought like this, that there are other people out there that had understand the types of trauma experienced by IAFF members. e the same problems, and that you need to really talk to somebody and 15-acre campus includes a state-of-the-art gym and other features that ask for help,” said Mike James, a member of Burlington, ON Local encourage physical activity to help in recovery and preparing to return 1552 who participated in the Kitchen Table discussion. Before joining to the job. the fire service, James served in the Canadian Armed Services as a e Center will use evidence-based approaches for treating Clearance Diver. When he lost his close friend and roommate in a post-traumatic stress, including cognitive behavior therapy and diving training incident, he began to struggle with post-traumatic exposure therapy, as well as other activities to assist with recovery. stress and alcoholism, as he suffered from immense survivor’s guilt. Treatment is completely confidential — Center staff cannot discuss Members struggling with post-traumatic stress, depression, anxiety your treatment with anyone — not your fire department, not your and substance abuse need treatment from professionals who local — unless given explicit permission. understand the culture and unique pressures of the job. On average, treatment is four to six weeks, with continuing aercare However, there is no existing treatment facility that meets this need. services. is follow-up treatment is critical to long-term success, and e IAFF is filling that critical void with the new IAFF Center of Center staff will work with members and their families to ensure a Excellence for Behavioral Health Treatment and Recovery exclusively successful return home and to work, including support network, for IAFF members. accountability plans and other resources for continuing recovery. Advanced Recovery Systems (ARS) — a leader in behavioral In addition to providing the highest level of treatment for IAFF healthcare management — is building and opening this facility, members, the Center will serve to train and educate peer support located in Upper Marlboro, Maryland, just outside Washington, DC, members on the unique challenges presented in the treatment of to offer treatment for successful recovery from post-traumatic stress post-traumatic stress and substance abuse in the fire fighter and co-occurring addictions and help IAFF members return to the job population, with the ultimate goal of developing needed protocols for as quickly as possible. fire departments to handle these complex mental health issues. “e IAFF Center of Excellence will be there for our members — “Nothing matters more than our members’ health, and this is a and our members only — to receive the help they need in taking the critically important action that puts put their health and well-being first steps toward recovery,” says Schaitberger. “ey will be able to go first,” says Schaitberger. there and receive the treatment and support they need to heal from e Center of Excellence for Behavioral Health Treatment and trained professionals who understand their profession and their Recovery is expected to open in March 2017 in Upper Marlboro, experiences. It will be a safe haven for members to talk with other fire Maryland. For more information, visit IAFFRecoveryCenter.com fighters who have faced or overcome similar challenges.” or call (855) 900-8437. n ARS has unsurpassed expertise in behavioral health and recovery and is ready to address the specific post-traumatic stress and resulting additional addiction issues that can be caused by the kind of situations The Center will offer multiple levels of treatment, including: IAFF members experience. • Detox • Residential care, • Outpatient care “I think going to a place that is run by the IAFF, or a company • Intensive including medical and services associated with them, would be really, really good because it’s fire in-patient care monitoring • 12-step meetings fighters for fire fighters,” said Mike Higgins, a retired member of

24/7 Centralized Call Center | (855) 900-8437 The IAFF and ARS are committed to delivering treatment that produces positive outcomes for members, and are reaching out to the major insurance carriers to explain the Center’s cost-effective approach and promote coverage for this level of care. The IAFF is making it a priority to ensure members are not burdened with large or unexpected expenses after treatment. 11 NOTEWORTHY NEWS

New IAFF Leadership Team International Burn Camp Helps Meets in Chicago Young Burn Survivors Heal In September, just days after taking office, the Forty-five teen burn survivors from across North new IAFF Executive Board convened in America participated in the IAFF International Chicago to make decisions on business Burn Camp in Washington, DC in September conducted at the IAFF 53rd Convention and for a week of sightseeing, new friendships and begin the work needed for continued Strength, confidence building. Each year, the IAFF Solidarity and Success. n Foundation brings teen burn survivors together with professional fire fighter counselors who understand the strength, courage and peer Education: The Key to Union Strength support these teens need to overcome their Registration is now open for the Vincent J. injuries and thrive in life moving forward. Bollon Affiliate Leadership Training Summit Campers visited the Smithsonian Institution, (ALTS), the IAFF’s toured the Naval Academy in Annapolis and premier education took part in a wreath-laying ceremony at conference scheduled for Arlington National Cemetery. Adriana Olvera, a January 24-26, 2017, in camper from Fresno, California, says, “This Anaheim, California. camp turned me into a leader. It’s changed me ALTS offers diverse to be an outgoing person and educational offerings not to judge people on how addressing important they look. Everybody has their issues in the fire service, own story.” n including more than 130 breakout sessions, 23 informational sessions and seven pre-conference events to help build skills and Congratulations to the become more effective union leaders. ALTS is IAFF Charitable Foundation also an excellent opportunity for affiliate leaders Fitness Team to exchange ideas and network. For more Twenty-eight IAFF members information and to register, visit participated in the Marine alts2017.iaff.org . n Corps Marathon and MCM 10K on October 30 as part of IAFF in Pink the IAFF Charitable Foundation Fitness Team. Congratulations to Each Fitness Team member Joplin, MO Local 59, had a fundraising goal of the winner of the 2016 $1,000. Money raised helps provide IAFF Best Pink T-Shirt scholarships and other support for the families Design contest for of the fallen, peer support for burn survivors, breast cancer disaster relief assistance, resources to protect awareness, with 7,171 IAFF members’ health and safety and other votes. Local 59 will services that help IAFF members and their receive a free families. For more information about joining the registration to the Vincent J. Bollon Affiliate Fitness Team in 2017, contact Leadership Training Summit (ALTS) January fi[email protected]. n 24-26 in Anaheim, California. n IAFF Charitable Foundation Calendar ‘Tis the Season for Giving and Christmas Cards for Sale! IAFF Wines make a great gift for legislators, The 2017 Charitable Foundation wall calendar decision-makers, makes a perfect gift. Give one to remind your people of friends, family, neighbors and elected leaders of influence, friends the service fire fighters and and family. A paramedics provide in portion of the communities across North proceeds from America every day. The wall your purchase calendar features photos supports the submitted in the IAFF Media IAFF Charitable Awards Contest. To order, Foundation to visit www.pro-calendar.com. help us continue programs that protect the While you’re shopping, health, safety and welfare of our members and order your IAFF Christmas their families, as well as provide assistance in cards, too! n their greatest time of need. To order, visit www.iaffwines.com or call (707) 433-2222.* n *Please note that shipping is not available to New Hampshire, Pennsylvania, Utah and Kansas, or to Canada.

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Highlights of races and ballot initiatives the IAFF and our affiliates played in across the country this election season.

e 2016 election cycle was characterized by the bitterness presidency is likely to usher in an era of smaller government that branded the presidential campaign, coupled with a and less federal spending. See General President Harold zealous anti-establishment feeling among voters, creating a Schaitberger’s message on page 5 for examples of how this charged atmosphere that affected all candidates in this year’s union has been able to succeed, regardless of the party in election. charge. We will have to double down on advocacy to protect We followed our fundamental principles in politics — vital programs, such as the Staffing for Adequate Fire and putting the membership first and supporting our friends, Emergency Response (SAFER) and Assistance to and craed a bi-partisan political and advocacy program Firefighters (FIRE Act) grant programs, as well as training that was successful and will serve our membership well as grants. e next Congress will also be more focused on state the Trump presidency begins and the 115th Congress rights, which will make advancing issues — including convenes. collective bargaining — much more difficult. On the other Recognizing that our membership was deeply and emotionally divided between President-elect Donald Trump and Secretary Hillary Clinton, the IAFF remained neutral in the presidential election, because our unity is where this union draws its outsized power with our legislative agenda. “e IAFF has always found a path to succeed, regardless of which Party controls the White House or the gavels in Congress,” notes General President Harold Schaitberger. “e decision was appropriate both in terms of maintaining the support of our membership and protecting our alliances with the leadership of both parties.” Election night proved to be a triumphant night for the GOP. In addition to winning the White House, the 115th Congress will have a Republican-controlled Senate (52-48) and a Republican-controlled House (238-193), with four contests yet to be decided. In addition, 32 of the 50 states will have Republican governors. is new leadership in Washington will bring challenges and opportunities for the IAFF as the Trump

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hand, this could help in battling congressional efforts to worked to enact both SAFER and FIRE Act legislation and meddle in the management of state and local pension plans. has remained a stalwart champion and advocate of both By concentrating resources and efforts on down ballot programs over the intervening years. races, we honored our principle of supporting our friends, Working with affiliates in Illinois and New Hampshire, we regardless of party affiliation, with mixed success. In helped elect longtime friends Representative Tammy Missouri, our gold and black brand stood behind Duckworth (D-IL) and Governor Maggie Hassan (D-NH), incumbent Senator Roy Blunt (R), who also serves as vice respectively, to the U.S. Senate against entrenched chair of the Republican Caucus. Blunt has worked closely incumbents. And the California Professional Firefighters with the IAFF in efforts to repeal the Cadillac Tax and fend backed Attorney General Kamala Harris in her successful off attacks on the pension system. bid to replace retiring Senator Barbara Boxer. In Arizona, the IAFF backed John McCain (R) who, as the Our bi-partisan approach to the election cycle is also seen chair of the Senate’s Commerce and Science Committee, in a number of House races in which we supported

H Victories on the Ballot November 8 brought to a close a successful campaign media appearances on Denver television news stations by IAFF members to enact collective bargaining in and convinced the majority of the city’s At-Large City Westminster, Colorado. e city had a long history of Council members, as well as prominent community anti-union behavior, including leaders, to support the initiative.

enforcing a mini-Hatch Act Pending certification by the state, the depriving fire fighters the right of Westminster City D on’t let p political action. is election, Gu olitics Council has until July uarantee comp Westmin romise ster Firefi e public residents stood with their fire fighters a c safet 1, 2017, to enact the voice in y. safety de fighters voting Yes on Ballot ecisions. ordinance granting Initiative 2 by 58 percent. collective bargaining. ww w.Firefig htersForA Firefighte Safer Senate Bill 25, enacted in 2013, rs For A S Westm afer Wes inste tminster r.com P.O. Box 3 50-547, W estmins Wh ter CO 80 provided recognition and meet en our de 035 ne partment ighboring needs h B cities an elp with a ut lives d distric n inciden and prop ts may re t, firefigh leaders erty are spond, as ters from and confer rights for Colorado are mak being p we do fo input — ing equip ut at risk r them. that pre ment de because with ou vent us fr cisions — politica r neighbo om comm withou l rs on a s unicating t Firefigh fire fighters. e law also hared rad on the fi ter Pa io f re g id for by F requen round irefighter cy. s For A Sa fer Westm inster, P.O . Box 350 -547, Wes created a mechanism for IAFF tminster CO 80035 locals to pass local collective bargaining ordinances through legislation or referenda and ensured that members could engage politically in these referendum elections. Local 2889 ran a multi-tiered political program to convince voters to “Vote Yes on 2.” President Ron Taylor led IAFF members, family and friends from surrounding communities to pound the pavement, knocking on 12,000 doors asking residents for their Voters in Texarkana, Texas also granted members of support and vote. Local 367 collective bargaining rights, while Hagerstown, Union members hammered home the campaign’s MD Local 1605 won full binding arbitration. message of enhancing public safety and ensuring fire In other ballot initiatives, Shreveport, LA Local 514 fighters have the proper gear and training to serve was successful in passing a proposition to remove the their community and keep themselves safe through sunset provision and permanently renew a ¼ of one collective bargaining — taking the politics out of the percent sales tax to provide more than $5.6 million in public safety equation and giving fire fighters a voice funding for police and fire budgets. and process to bargain for better wages, benefits and In Virginia, voters rejected a constitutional measure working conditions. on the ballot to codify the state’s existing Under the leadership of Kent Grosse, an officer of Right-to-Work law into the constitution. Voters West Metro, CO Local 1309 and strategic campaign overwhelmingly approved (80-20 percent) a second specialist for the Colorado Professional Fire Fighters measure providing an option to localities to exempt (CPFF), the local sent six mailings — each targeting from taxation the real property of the surviving spouse more than 40,000 registered voters. e door-to-door of any law enforcement officer, fire fighter and search and mail efforts were supplemented with a massive and rescue or EMS personnel killed in the line of duty. online political campaign reaching 32,000 households. “ese victories demonstrate that affiliates across the e IAFF provided assistance in the campaign efforts country can use the referendum process to secure — compiling voter targeting information and creating bargaining rights and other protections affecting direct mail and online campaigns. members,” notes General President Harold By the end of the campaign, Local 2889 had earned Schaitberger. H

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“Up and down the ballot for Democrats, Republicans and Independents, and on ballot issues and referenda, we showed up with money, marbles and chalk. We worked together and our efforts made a difference.” — General President Harold Schaitberger

incumbent friends in both parties. In spite of pressure from Democratic leadership — which targeted an array of labor- If your local was successful in local elections, winning public support for ballot initiatives and fire fighter-friendly candidates, and IAFF-friendly GOP House members in their bid to win let us know — email [email protected] the majority — we steadfastly supported the re-election efforts of Carlos Curbelo (FL/26), David Joyce (OH/14), Lee Zeldin (NY/1), Elise Stefanik (NY/21), John Katko (NY/24), North Carolina demonstrated that their endorsement and Ryan Costello (PA/6), Peter Roskum (IL/6) and our own support of Governor-elect Cooper was predicated on his Mike Bost (IL/12), a retired member of Murphysboro, IL qualifications and policies and not on partisanship. Local 3042. On the other side of the aisle, we supported e Professional Fire Fighters of West Virginia helped Representative Rick Nolan (MN/8) and helped him retain propel Jim Justice into the governor’s mansion in an his seat. And we successfully worked to unseat five otherwise very red state. In Washington, Oregon and incumbents — Scott Garrett in New Jersey, Bob Dold in Montana, our gold and black brand cemented the Illinois, in and John Mica and David re-election bids of fire fighter-friendly Governors Jay Inslee, Jolly in Florida who were not on our side. Kate Brown and Steve Bullock. In Nevada, our affiliates scored multiple victories, flipping both the state Senate and House to union-friendly Democratic control and winning two hotly contested congressional seats. In New Mexico, Democrats won control of the House, and now control both chambers, creating a checks and balances on the state’s Republican governor. Unfortunately, in spite of a valiant effort, the GOP won control of the Kentucky House and the Iowa Senate, where two of our members, Chris Brase and Jeff Danielson, were up for re-election. Brase lost his race and Danielson won. Both states have very right wing, anti-union governors, and their House and Senate served as a firewall against harmful, anti-labor legislation. In other states, our support, money and resources protected fire fighter-friendly majorities, ensuring that our rights and benefits will be protected. At the municipal level in Baltimore, our members helped catapult Democratic State Senator Cathy Pugh to victory as the city’s next mayor. e IAFF was the only union to back Pugh in the hotly contested primary. And, in the general election, Baltimore members rallied the rest of labor to ensure her victory. e city and Baltimore Local 734 have “I am pleased that we were able to take Mica out,” says battled for several years over pension issues. Mayor-elect Schaitberger. As chair of the Transportation and Pugh has pledged to favorably resolve the dispute. Infrastructure Committee, Mica tried to eliminate the e IAFF also had a number of members or family IAFF’s hazardous materials training grant. “We beat him on members on the ballot, running for a mix of local, county that issue, and we also exacted our revenge at the polls on and state offices. Most notably, 34 of 48 members or family Election Day.” members won their state legislative races, with 14 of those In North Carolina, Attorney General Roy Cooper (D) is wins coming from New Hampshire. See page 17 for a leading Governor Pat McCrory (R) by just under 5,000 detailed list of reported outcomes provided by members of votes. However, unless McCrory concedes the election, a the IAFF. statewide recount may ensue since the margin of victory is Overall, the IAFF FIREPAC winning percentage this cycle less than 10,000 votes, which allows the losing candidate to is 87 percent. request a recount. e results will be certified by the state on “Up and down the ballot for Democrats, Republicans and November 18, at which time Governor McCrory could ask Independents, and on ballot issues and referenda, we for a recount. e Professional Fire Fighters and Paramedics showed up with money, marbles and chalk,” says of North Carolina strongly backed Cooper’s candidacy. By Schaitberger. “We worked together and our efforts made a remaining neutral in the Senate contest, our members in difference.” H

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2016 ELECTION RESULTS — IAFF Member Candidates for Public Office

Name ...... State ...... Local ...... Office Sought ...... ¸= won

Marshall Bailey ...... AL ...... L403, Tuscaloosa ...... County Commissioner Dom Bei ...... CA ...... L1109, Santa Monica ...... City Council Jeff Griffith ...... CA ...... L2881, CAL FIRE ...... Palomar Health Board ...... ¸ Danese Pimentel ...... CA ...... L2881, CAL FIRE ...... School Board ...... ¸ Jeff Tomchik ...... CT ...... L801, Danbury ...... State Representative Robert Conley ...... FL ...... L2546, Suncoast ...... Fire Commissioner ...... ¸ Carlos Gimenez ...... FL ...... L587, Miami ...... Mayor, Miami-Dade County ...... ¸ Steve Trompke ...... FL ...... L2546, Suncoast ...... Fire Commissioner ...... ¸ Wengay Newton ...... FL ...... Brother of Member ...... State Representative ...... ¸ Matt Willhite ...... FL ...... L2928, Palm Beach County ...... State Representative ...... ¸ Clift Tsjui ...... HI ...... Family Member ...... State Representative ...... ¸ Chris Brase ...... IA ...... L608, Muscatine ...... State Senate Timi Brown-Powers ...... IA ...... Spouse of Member ...... State Representative ...... ¸ Jeff Danielson ...... IA ...... L1366, Cedar Falls ...... State Senate ...... ¸ Steve Gorman ...... IA ...... L15, Council Bluffs ...... State Representative Timothy Kacena ...... IA ...... L7, Sioux City ...... State Representative ...... ¸ Jake Ellis ...... ID ...... L149, Boise ...... State Representative Mike Bost ...... IL ...... L3042, Murphysboro ...... Member of Congress ...... ¸ Scott Orban ...... IL ...... L56, Streator ...... County Board Brian Vnycke ...... IL ...... L581, Moline ...... County Board Kathy Willis ...... IL ...... Family Member ...... State Representative ...... ¸ Mark Cantanzarite ...... IN ...... L362, South Bend ...... County Council ...... ¸ Dan Forestal ...... IN ...... L416, Indianapolis ...... State Representative ...... ¸ Randy Frye ...... IN ...... L416, Indianapolis ...... State Representative ...... ¸ Duane Suttles ...... KY ...... L3882, State Fire/Rescue Training ...... City Council Paul Jacques ...... MA ...... L848, Attleboro ...... State Representative Paul Moody, Jr...... MA ...... L792, Quincy ...... State Representative Tom Cochran ...... MI ...... L421, Lansing ...... State Representative ...... ¸ Henry Yanez ...... MI ...... L1557, Sterling Heights ...... State Representative ...... ¸ Margaret Fernandez ...... MN ...... Spouse of Member ...... State Representative Mike McDonnell ...... NE ...... L485, Omaha ...... State Senate ...... ¸ Nick Angelo ...... NH ...... L1451, Rochester ...... State Representative Fred Doucette ...... NH ...... L2892, Salem ...... State Representative ...... ¸ Jeff Goley ...... NH ...... L856, Manchester ...... State Representative ...... ¸ Chris Golomb ...... NH ...... L1045, Concord ...... State Representative Ray Labrecque ...... NH ...... L789, Nashua ...... State Representative Larry Laflamme ...... NH ...... L2088, Berlin ...... State Representative ...... ¸ Mark MacKenzie ...... NH ...... L856, Manchester ...... State Representative ...... ¸ Sean Morrison ...... NH ...... L2664, Hampton ...... State Representative ...... ¸ Mike O’Brien ...... NH ...... L789, Nashua ...... State Representative ...... ¸ Mark Pearson ...... NH ...... Family Member ...... State Representative ...... ¸ Mark Proulx ...... NH ...... L789, Nashua ...... State Representative ...... ¸ Kevin St. James ...... NH ...... L3491, Exeter ...... County Commissioner ...... ¸ Tim Soucy ...... NH ...... L789, Nashua ...... State Representative ...... ¸ Dan Sullivan ...... NH ...... L856, Manchester ...... State Representative ...... ¸ Rio Tilton ...... NH ...... Family Member ...... State Representative ...... ¸ Ken Vincent ...... NH ...... L2320, Somersworth ...... State Representative ...... ¸ Andrew White ...... NH ...... L3197, Lebanon Permanent ...... State Representative ...... ¸ Gordon Wilson ...... NH ...... L789, Nashua ...... State Representative Steve Woitkun ...... NH ...... L2892, Salem ...... State Representative ...... ¸ Mike Sprinkle ...... NV ...... L731, Reno ...... State Representative ...... ¸ Dwon Daniels ...... NY ...... L714, Niagara Falls ...... Coroner ...... ¸ Kelly Ann Gallagher ...... OH ...... Family Member ...... County Common Pleas Judge ...... RI ...... L732, Woonsocket ...... State Representative ...... ¸ Deborah Fellela ...... RI ...... Family Member ...... State Representative ...... ¸ ...... RI ...... Family Member ...... State Representative Mary Messier ...... RI ...... Family Member ...... State Representative ...... ¸ ...... RI ...... L732, Woonsocket ...... State Representative ...... ¸ ...... RI ...... Family Member ...... State Representative ...... ¸ Jim Powers ...... SD ...... L814, Sioux Falls ...... State Representative Barbara Cooper ...... TN ...... Family Member ...... State Representative ...... ¸ Larry Miller ...... TN ...... L1784, Memphis ...... State Representative ...... ¸ Nathan Clark ...... VA ...... L539, Portsmouth ...... City Council ...... ¸ Scott Nelson ...... WI ...... S6, Minneapolis/St. Paul Airport ...... State Representative David Palmer ...... WV ...... L12, Wheeling ...... City Council ...... ¸ 17 2016 ELECTION RESULTS — IAFF & FIREPAC Supported Candidates

U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Italicized names are new members of Congress

State Race Party Candidate ¸= Won State Race Party Candidate ¸= Won State Race Party Candidate ¸= Won Alabama CD/7 D ¸ Florida CD/2 D Al Lawson ¸ Massachusetts CD/1 D Richard Neal ¸ Arizona CD/1 D Tom O’Halleran ¸ CD/7 D Stephanie Murphy ¸ CD/2 D Jim McGovern ¸ CD/3 D Raul Grijalva ¸ CD/9 D Darren Soto ¸ CD/3 D Niki Tsongas ¸ CD/5 R Andy Biggs ¸ CD/10 D Val Demings ¸ CD/4 D Joseph P. Kennedy III ¸ CD/7 D Ruben Gallego ¸ CD/13 D Charlie Crist ¸ CD/5 D Katherine Clark ¸ CD/9 D Kyrsten Sinema ¸ CD/14 D Kathy Castor ¸ CD/6 D Seth Moulton ¸ California CD/2 D Jared Huffman ¸ CD/16 D Vern Buchanan ¸ CD/7 D Michael Capuano ¸ CD/3 D John Garamendi ¸ CD/20 D Alcee Hastings ¸ CD/8 D Stephen Lynch ¸ CD/5 D Mike Thompson ¸ CD/21 D Lois Frankel ¸ CD/9 D William Keating ¸ CD/6 D Doris Matsui ¸ CD/22 D Ted Deutch ¸ CD/8 R Paul Cook ¸ CD/23 D Debbie Wasserman Schultz ¸ Michigan CD/1 D Lon Johnson CD/9 D Jerry McNerney ¸ CD/24 D Frederica Wilson ¸ CD/5 D Dan Kildee ¸ CD/10 R Jeff Denham ¸ CD/25 R Mario Diaz-Balart ¸ CD/6 R Fred Upton ¸ CD/11 D Mark DeSaulnier ¸ CD/26 R Carlos Curbelo ¸ CD/7 D Gretchen Driskell CD/12 D ¸ CD/27 R Ileana Ros-Lehtinen ¸ CD/9 D Sander Levin ¸ CD/13 D Barbara Lee ¸ CD/12 D Debbie Dingell ¸ CD/14 D Jackie Speier ¸ Georgia CD/2 D Sanford Bishop ¸ CD/13 D John Conyers ¸ CD/15 D Eric Swalwell ¸ CD/4 D Hank Johnson ¸ CD/14 D Brenda Lawrence ¸ CD/16 D Jim Costa ¸ CD/5 D John Lewis ¸ CD/17 D Mike Honda CD/13 D David Scott ¸ Minnesota CD/1 D Tim Walz ¸ CD/19 D Zoe Lofgren ¸ CD/2 D Angie Craig CA/20 D Jimmy Panetta ¸ Hawaii CD/1 D Colleen Hanabusa ¸ CD/3 D Terri Bonoff CA/24 D Salud Carbajal ¸ CD/2 D Tulsi Gabbard ¸ CD/4 D Betty McCollum ¸ CA/25 D Brian Cafario CD/8 D Rick Nolan ¸ CD/26 D Julie Brownley ¸ Idaho CD/1 D James Piotrowski CD/27 D Judy Chu ¸ CD/2 R Mike Simpson ¸ Mississippi CD/2 D Bennie Thompson ¸ CD/28 D Adam Schiff ¸ CD/29 D Tony Cardenas ¸ Illinois CD/1 D Bobby Rush ¸ Missouri CD/1 D Lacy Clay ¸ CD/30 D Brad Sherman ¸ CD/2 D Robin Kelly ¸ CD/5 D Emanuel Cleaver ¸ CD/31 D Pete Aguilar ¸ CD/3 D Daniel Lipinski ¸ CD/6 R Sam Graves ¸ CD/32 D Grace Napolitano ¸ CD/4 D Luis Gutierrez ¸ CD/33 D Ted Lieu ¸ CD/5 D Mike Quigley ¸ Montana CD/1 D Denise Juneau CD/34 D Xavier Becerra ¸ CD/6 R Peter Roskam ¸ CD/35 D Norma Torres ¸ CD/7 D Danny Davis ¸ Nebraska CD/2 D Brad Ashford CD/36 D Raul Ruiz ¸ CD/8 D Raja Krishnamoorthi ¸ CD/37 D Karen Bass ¸ CD/9 D Jan Schakowsky ¸ Nevada CD/1 D ¸ CD/38 D Linda Sanchez ¸ CD/10 D Brad Schneider ¸ CD/3 D ¸ CD/40 D Lucille Roybal-Allard ¸ CD/11 D Bill Foster ¸ CD/4 D ¸ CD/41 D Mark Takano ¸ CD/12 R Mike Bost ¸ CD/42 R Ken Calvert ¸ CD/13 R Rodney Davis ¸ New Hampshire CD/2 D Ann McLane Kuster ¸ CD/43 D Maxine Waters ¸ CD/15 R John Shimkus ¸ CD/44 D Isadore Hall CD/16 R Adam Kinzinger ¸ New Jersey CD/1 D Donald Norcross ¸ CD/45 R Mimi Walters ¸ CD/17 D Cheri Bustos ¸ CD/2 R Frank LoBiondo ¸ CD/46 D Lou Correa ¸ CD/18 R Darin LaHood ¸ CD/3 R Tom McArthur ¸ CD/47 D Alan Lowenthal ¸ CD/4 R Chris Smith ¸ CD/49 D Doug Applegate U Indiana CD/1 D Peter Visclosky ¸ CD/5 D Josh Gottheimer ¸ CD/50 R Duncan Hunter ¸ CD/5 R Susan Brooks ¸ CD/6 D Frank Pallone, Jr. ¸ CD/51 D Juan Vargas ¸ CD/7 D Andre Carson ¸ CD/8 D Albio Sires ¸ CD/52 D Scott Peters ¸ CD/9 D Shelli Yoder CD/9 D Bill Pascrell, Jr. ¸ CD/53 D Susan Davis ¸ CD/10 D Donald Payne, Jr. ¸ Iowa CD/1 D Monica Vernon CD/11 R Rodney Frelinghuysen ¸ Colorado CD/1 D Diana DeGette ¸ CD/3 D Jim Mowrer CD/12 D Bonnie Watson Coleman ¸ CD/3 D Gail Schwartz CD/6 D Morgan Carroll Kentucky CD/3 D John Yarmuth ¸ New Mexico CD/1 D Michelle Lujan Grisham ¸ CD/7 D Ed Perlmutter ¸ CD/3 D Ben Ray Lujan ¸ Louisiana CD/2 D Cedric Richmond ¸ Connecticut CD/1 D John Larson ¸ New York CD/1 R Lee Zeldin ¸ CD/2 D Joe Courtney ¸ Maine CD/1 D Chellie Pingree ¸ CD/2 R Peter King ¸ CD/3 D Rosa DeLauro ¸ CD/2 D Emily Cain CD/4 D Kathleen Rice ¸ CD/4 D Jim Himes ¸ CD/6 D Grace Meng ¸ CD/5 D Elizabeth Esty ¸ Maryland CD/2 D Dutch Ruppersberger ¸ CD/7 D Nydia Velazquez ¸ CD/3 D John Sarbanes ¸ CD/8 D Hakeem Jeffries ¸ District of CD/1 D Eleanor Holmes Norton ¸ CD/4 D Anthony Brown ¸ CD/9 D Yvette Clarke ¸ Columbia CD/5 D Steny Hoyer ¸ CD/10 D Jerrold Nadler ¸ CD/7 D Elijah Cummings ¸ CD/11 R Dan Donovan ¸ CD/8 D Jamie Raskin ¸ 18 2016 ELECTION RESULTS — IAFF & FIREPAC Supported Candidates

U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Italicized names are new members of Congress

State Race Party Candidate = Won State Race Party Candidate = Won State Race Party Candidate = Won New York (cont.) CD/12 D Carolyn Maloney ¸ Oregon CD/1 D Suzanne Bonamici ¸ Utah CD/3 R Jason Chaffetz ¸ CD/13 D Andriano Espaillet ¸ CD/2 R Greg Walden ¸ CD/4 D Doug Owens CD/14 D Joseph Crowley ¸ CD/3 D Earl Blumenauer ¸ CD/15 D Jose Serrano ¸ CD/4 D Peter DeFazio ¸ Vermont CD/1 D Peter Welch ¸ CD/16 D Eliot Engel ¸ CD/5 D Kurt Schrader ¸ CD/17 D Nita Lowey ¸ Virginia CD/1 R Rob Wittman ¸ CD/18 D Sean Patrick Maloney ¸ Pennsylvania CD/1 D Robert Brady ¸ CD/3 R Robert Scott ¸ CD/19 D Zephyr Teachout CD/2 D Dwight Evans ¸ CD/4 D Donald McEachin ¸ CD/20 D Paul Tonko ¸ CD/6 R Ryan Costello ¸ CD/5 D Jane Dittmar CD/21 R Elise Stefanik ¸ CD/7 R Patrick Meehan ¸ CD/8 D Don Beyer, Jr. ¸ CD/22 D Kim Myers CD/9 R Bill Shuster ¸ CD/10 R Barbara Comstock ¸ CD/23 R Tom Reed ¸ CD/10 R Tom Marino ¸ CD/11 D Gerald Connolly ¸ CD/24 R John Katko ¸ CD/11 R Lou Barletta ¸ CD/25 D Louise Slaughter ¸ CD/13 D Brendan Boyle ¸ Washington CD/1 D Suzan DelBene ¸ CD/26 D Brian Higgins ¸ CD/14 D Mike Doyle ¸ CD/2 D Rick Larsen ¸ CD/15 R Charlie Dent ¸ CD/6 D Derek Kilmer ¸ North Carolina CD/1 D G.K. Butterfield ¸ CD/17 D Matt Cartwright ¸ CD/8 R Dave Reichart ¸ CD/3 R Walter Jones ¸ CD/18 R Tim Murphy ¸ CD/9 D Adam Smith ¸ CD/4 D David Price ¸ CD/10 D Denny Heck ¸ CD/8 R Richard Hudson ¸ Rhode Island CD/1 D David Cicilline ¸ CD/12 D Alma Adams ¸ CD/2 D Jim Langevin ¸ West Virginia CD/1 R David McKinley ¸ CD/2 D Mark Hunt Ohio CD/3 D Joyce Beatty ¸ South Carolina CD/6 D James Clyburn ¸ CD/3 R Evan Jenkins ¸ CD/6 R Bill Johnson ¸ CD/9 D Marcy Kaptur ¸ Texas CD/8 R Kevin Brady ¸ Wisconsin CD/1 R ¸ CD/10 R Michael Turner ¸ CD/9 D Al Green ¸ CD/2 D Mark Pocan ¸ CD/11 D Marcia Fudge ¸ CD/10 R Michael McCaul ¸ CD/3 D Ron Kind ¸ CD/12 R Pat Tiberi ¸ CA/15 D Vincente Gonzalez ¸ CD/4 D Gwen Moore ¸ CD/13 D Tim Ryan ¸ CD/18 D Sheila Jackson Lee ¸ CD/8 D Tom Nelson CD/14 R David Joyce ¸ CD/20 D Joaquin Castro ¸ CD/15 R Steve Stivers ¸ CD/29 D Gene Green ¸ CD/16 R James Renacci ¸ CD/30 D Eddie Bernice Johnson ¸ CD/33 D Marc Veasey ¸ Oklahoma CD/4 R Tom Cole ¸ CD/34 D Filemon Vela ¸ CD/5 R Steve Russell ¸ CD/35 D Lloyd Doggett ¸ U.S. SENATE Italicized names are new members of Congress

State Party Candidate ¸= won State Party Candidate ¸= won State Party Candidate ¸= won Alaska R Lisa Murkowski ¸ Illinois D Tammy Duckworth ¸ Ohio D Ted Strickland Arizona R John McCain ¸ Indiana D Evan Bayh Oklahoma R James Lankford ¸ Arkansas D Connor Eldridge Iowa D Patty Judge Oregon D Ron Wyden ¸ California D Kamala Harris ¸ Louisiana D Foster Campbell Run-Off Pennsylvania D Katie McGinty Colorado D Michael Bennet ¸ Maryland D Chris Van Hollen ¸ South Dakota R John Thune ¸ Connecticut D Richard Blumenthal ¸ Missouri R Roy Blunt ¸ Vermont D Pat Leahy ¸ Florida D Patrick Murphy New Hampshire D Maggie Hassan ¸ Washington D Patty Murray ¸ Hawaii D Brian Schatz ¸ New York D Chuck Schumer ¸ Wisconsin D Russ Feingold Idaho R Mike Crapo ¸

GOVERNORS Italicized names are new governors and (I) = Incumbent

State Party Candidate ¸ = won State Party Candidate ¸ = won Indiana D John Gregg Oregon D Kate Brown ¸ Missouri D Chris Koster Vermont D Sue Minter Montana D Steve Bullock ¸ Washington D Jay Inslee ¸ North Carolina D Roy Cooper ¸ West Virginia D Jim Justice ¸

19 WHAT’S OUR UNION DOING FOR US? Your Dues Get Results!

IAFF Holds Summit to Address Occupational Cancer Concerns A Stronger IAFF Efforts to prevent, reduce cancer and cancer deaths includes training, prevention and research. Empowering our affiliates to build and strengthen their locals and bring new Researchers, physicians, epidemiologists and members into this union. other subject matter experts, along with affiliate leaders from the United States and A strong and growing membership is Canada, discussed occupational cancer what gives this union the power and concerns in the fire service as part of an IAFF influence that ensures and safeguards Cancer Summit held in San Francisco October better and safer working conditions, 20-21. improved wages and a secure e two-day Summit, held pursuant to retirement for our members. Resolution 48 passed at the 2016 IAFF Having a unified voice and greater Convention, was convened to review current influence also means having the studies on the proven scientific evidence resources to ensure public and fire showing the correlation between fire fighting fighter safety and to raise the standards and occupational cancer and to identify gaps for all fire fighters and fire in cancer research and determine where Cancer Institute, the National Fire Protection departments across North America. additional studies are needed. Association (NFPA), Johns Hopkins As part of a strategic organizing plan, e Keynote Speaker, Dr. Patrick University, the University of California-San the IAFF has initiated a pilot program Soon-Shiong, Chairman and CEO of Francisco, the University of Illinois and IAFF targeting Georgia, a state with more NantHealth, which develops healthcare affiliate leaders were among those giving than 6,000 professional fire fighters not solutions and more effective treatment presentations addressing presumptive currently in a local or in departments decisions for critical illnesses, focused his legislation, exposures to flame retardants and without an IAFF local. remarks on Cancer MoonShot 2020, a other toxic materials and the physiological Working with the Professional Fire revolutionary new approach to fighting cancer effects of these exposures on fire fighters. Fighters of Georgia (PFFG), General that uses the latest in genomic testing and California state Senator Mark Leno, who was President Harold Schaitberger and leverages the body’s own immune system to instrumental in changing flammability 12th District Vice President Larry customize treatments for cancer patients. standards in California to reduce the amount Osborne have assembled a team of e project also has the support of Vice of flame retardants in furniture, also spoke at seasoned district representatives to President Joe Biden, head of the President’s the Summit. work on the ground to help empower Cancer Moonshot Task Force charged with As part of efforts to prevent and reduce affiliate leaders to build and strengthen supporting cancer research and enabling cancer and cancer deaths in the fire service, their locals while reaching out to the progress in treatment and patient care through the International will continue to focus on thousands professional fire fighters the use of federal and private investments. is communication, training and prevention, as and paramedics in the Peach state who presentation generated much discussion about well as fostering a shi in fire service culture to do not yet belong to the IAFF. how the IAFF can use Moonshot 2020 in the modify behaviors that will reduce cancer risk. In addition to field operations, this diagnosis and treatment of members. For more resources and IAFF cancer IAFF-PFFG initiative includes a social Occupational physicians and researchers awareness and prevention efforts, contact the media component featuring a from the National Institute for Occupational IAFF Health and Safety Division at (202) Facebook ad campaign in the Atlanta Safety and Health (NIOSH), the National 737-8484. n metro region targeting professional fire fighters to promote the benefits of IAFF union membership and highlight New IAFF-FC Programs Protect You and Your Family how successful local unions can be, The IAFF Financial Corporation (IAFF-FC) Insurance Division has added especially through the political and new programs to help protect you and your family. governance process, when everyone is all in working together. • LifeLock® Identity Protection is more • Auto & Homeowners Insurance from In June, affiliate leaders in Georgia, than just credit monitoring. Liberty Mutual includes auto, along with district service Lifelock helps safeguard homeowners, renters and motorcycle representatives and IAFF staff, met for your good name. Call insurance, as well as many other products, a two-day leadership engagement 1-800-416-0599 for more at a discount for IAFF members. Call seminar on recruiting, organizing and information and note that 1-800-835-0894 for more information. communications. Going forward, each you are an IAFF member. e IAFF-FC Insurance Division can also Georgia local has been paired with a • A new Pension Protection Plan covers assist locals with group products, such as service representative to address local you and your family if you have a serious coverage for Life, Disability, Medicare and issues and build an affiliate-specific disabling sickness or injury and can no other coverages. Get the best price, service strategic action plan that focuses on longer work. and coverage — visit recruiting new members into their www.iafffc-insurance.com or call locals. • Workplace Assault provides lump-sum 866-423-3757. n One of the biggest challenges for cash benefits payable directly, in addition affiliates in Georgia — and for many to other benefits received from your locals across the country — is the lack department or municipality. of a dues deduction program. e Visit our new Marketplace at www.iafffc-insurance.com IAFF is now beta testing an online Continued on Page 21 20

Responding to the Interface With more members having to respond to Wildland Urban Interface (WUI) fires, the IAFF is making sure they are equipped and trained to safely and effectively respond to the challenges of WUI fire fighting. On May 3, 2016, IAFF members in Fort as gradually increasing average McMurray were called to a massive wildfire temperatures in the last two decades. surging through their city of more than “We found out about the reality of 60,000 in northern Alberta, Canada, and urban interface fires the hard way in consuming thousands of homes and sending Austin,” says Randy Denzer, a member residents fleeing. of Local 975 and a battalion chief in “We were stunned by the speed and the Austin Fire Department. unpredictability of the wildfire that engulfed e International is addressing this “ere are other wildfire training our city,” recalls Fort McMurray Local 2494 increasing threat to the wildland urban courses, but none focus on helping first due President Nick Waddington. interface (WUI), the borderlands and fire fighters respond to interface wildfires,” Dangerously raging wildfires like this one are areas within woodlands and urban areas, head he says. no longer confined to California, Texas and on. e WUI course will be offered online, as Florida. Wildfires are occurring with greater Delegates at the IAFF 53rd Convention in well as include a full day of field training. e frequency near and within urban settings passed Resolution 46 in support of goal, according to Swan, is to provide easily across North expanding resources accessible training to as many fire fighters as America as a The threat to property posed by WUI fires is directed at wildland fire possible so they have the basic skills needed to warming climate much greater than with standard structure fighting. In addition, the safely operate in the urban interface and expanded fires. Interface fires move swiftly and International has been environment and successfully defend homes development unpredictably and can engulf dozens of homes awarded a Federal while suppressing wildfires. continue to and even entire neighborhoods. Emergency Management Waddington notes, “We routinely assist in encroach on Agency (FEMA) Fire fighting wildfires outside of town, but this was wilderness areas. is evolving trend is Prevention and Training grant to develop a the first one to turn into a structure fire inside endangering more urban residents and WUI fire fighter training program. the city. We learned a lot that day and we threatening the safety of fire fighters. More than 46 million homes in 70,000 realized more training is needed.” Members of Austin, TX Local 975 learned communities are located in the WUI. But only Following the 2011 wildfire season, Denzer quickly of the hazards of interface wildfires in about a third of fire departments within these worked with the city and fire department to 2011 when historic drought conditions areas provide the proper training and develop and teach basic wildland firefighting helped spark numerous wildfires that traveled equipment to fight these fires, according to and WUI firefighting courses. Today, all through greenspaces and into several the National Fire Protection Association. Austin members, as well as many of those in suburban Austin communities. e Steiner e IAFF Urban Interface training course surrounding fire departments, are trained to Ranch fire, just one of numerous wildfires will focus squarely on the science behind combat WUI fires. near Austin that year, destroyed 23 homes in wildfires and tactics for prevention and attack “It’s not just a problem in Texas,” says Denzer, a gated residential community atop a canyon using available tools, says IAFF Director of who sits on the IAFF Wildfire Task Force and a few miles southwest of Austin, a city that Wildland Fire Fighting Safety and Response is now helping develop the WUI fire fighter has seen explosive residential growth, as well Rick Swan. training course. n

A Stronger IAFF Continued from Page 20 New NFPA 1710 Explainer Video payment option that offers Our new explainer video on the NFPA 1710 mobile-enabled online access for signing up new members and establishing Standard helps educate policy makers about recurring dues payments. the science behind proper staffing. While this long-term initiative is still in For years, affiliates have battled politicians its early stages, we are seeing results. For who make decisions on how many fire example, Atlanta Local 134 has increased fighters a community has, based on its membership 13 percent in two budget figures developed by number months. e next phase — already in the crunchers. In most cases, this flawed works — is to build leadership and approach leaves the community short of the operational staffing for career fire eventually charter new locals throughout number of fire fighters needed to successfully departments, is oen tough to explain, even the state in fire departments where there protect the residents and businesses they for IAFF members. is no organized IAFF local. serve. e IAFF has produced a new explainer In the coming months, the IAFF will e IAFF has been leading the charge on video on the NFPA 1710 Standard as a tool continue hold additional seminars and scientific research to help community leaders for conveying the message that proper events to reinforce the message about the better understand how to best protect the staffing levels are essential for keeping power that the IAFF and its affiliates taxpaying public. communities safe. have to make our members’ lives better NFPA 1710, the internationally accepted Watch the video at: www.youtube.com/iav. n and public and fire fighter safety stronger standard on minimum crew size and when we all stand strong together. n 21 With the increase in civil disturbances across the U.S., IAFF be treated like police. We used to say that we could go members — while not the immediate target — face the difficult anywhere. No one used to fear for their life.” task of responding to fire and medical emergencies associated Hoffman cites community involvement as one of the factors with these events while also keeping themselves safe. that has allowed his members to remain safe and do their job. Under the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, “If you are not in the community reaching out, opening the Americans have the right to come together and collectively bay doors, inviting people into your house — you’re doing a express, promote, pursue and defend their ideas. But on disservice.” occasion, these assemblies go beyond a peaceful gathering and In Dallas, Texas, on July 7, 2016, a suspect ambushed a group escalate to civil disturbances where public safety becomes a of police officers, killing five and injuring nine others. e concern. shootings happened at a protest against the police shootings of In legal terms, civil disturbances are acts of violence and two men in separate cities days earlier. disorder detrimental to the public law and order. For decades, fire fighters have stood side-by-side with law “It really took a toll on a lot of our enforcement when responding to unrest in communities as these events can involve fire and potential harm to citizens. members , mentally and emotionally . We ’re In Ferguson, Missouri, in 2014, following the initial shooting and aer release of the grand jury decision that the police trying to do our job and we ’ve got police officer under investigation for the shooting of Michael Brown would not be indicted, IAFF members worked around the officers standing on our fire trucks with clock as dozens of fires were set all over the city and businesses were torched and looted. Similar acts of violence and arson assault rifles .” occurred in other cities across the nation. “It isn’t something that we are used to dealing with as fire President of Dallas, TX Local 58 James McDade recalls this fighters,” says Jeff Proctor of the Professional Fire Fighters of incident as one that has made a lasting impact on his Eastern Missouri Local 2665. “It really took a toll on a lot of members. “Our paramedics who responded were in the direct our members, mentally and emotionally. We’re trying to do line of fire. It turned into a war zone right before our eyes.” our job and we’ve got police officers standing on our fire Immediately aer the event, Local 58 was equipped with trucks with assault rifles.” ballistic gear and all calls were assisted by law enforcement. In 2015, aer the funeral service for Freddie Gray — who According to McDade, a few members were threatened by was injured while being transported by Baltimore police and citizens, and it was not uncommon for cars to follow then fell into a coma and eventually died from his injuries — ambulances to scenes. “e police force was overworked and protests broke out across the city of Baltimore, Maryland. understaffed, and there were times when we would have to Violence and arsons continued throughout the night, with 150 advise our members to get in their engines and get the heck vehicle fires, 60 structure fires and 27 drugstore lootings. A out of there.” state of emergency was also declared. Days following the shootings, there was an outpouring of Baltimore, MD Local 734 President Rick Hoffman noted the support for police and fire fighters. People from all over the change in atmosphere. “ese days, you have to keep your neighborhood brought food, water and thanked the men and eyes and ears open. No one in a fire fighter uniform expects to women in uniform for their service.

22 “Our citizens have been great overall — the good has far establishing key criteria for protocols for emergency outweighed the bad,” says McDade. “We get cards, letters, preparedness and interoperable communication standards for baskets — people want us to know that they support us. But our responding to large-scale public events that can potentially turn response protocol is vital to keeping our members safe, and into active shooter scenarios. unfortunately, sometimes it takes incidents like this to realize “ese dangerous events are, unfortunately, occurring more that we — too — are exposed every time we go out.” frequently for our members,” says General President Harold More recently, in Tulsa, Oklahoma, protests broke out over the Schaitberger. “eir response under these extreme conditions fatal police shooting of Terrance Crutcher, but none rose to a reflects our members’ perseverance to get the job done.” level beyond isolated acts of violence. Tulsa, OK Local 176 President Jim Nance attributes this to the local’s relationship and engagement with the community. “We ’ve trained specifically for community “Our previous engagements and investments in the protests When the Democratic National Convention community really paid off,” says Nance. “We’ve been extremely . active in reaching out to our neighbors, talking to city was held in Charlotte in , we trained on how councilors, making sure we are visible and approachable.” 2012 President Nance also gives credit to the local’s active relationship to deal with protesters and a crowd .” with the Tulsa Police Department. On September 20, aer a police officer shot and killed Keith Lamont Scott in Charlotte, North Carolina, protesters took to Because law enforcement is typically the lead in these the downtown area, dominating national news. A state of situations, communication and coordination with law emergency was declared and the National Guard called in. enforcement are crucial. Civil unrest events can change quickly. Demonstrators persisted in protests and marches for a full week Protocols have to be dynamic, integrated and clearly aer the shooting. documented in order to keep members safe under extreme “It’s very shocking when it’s happening in your own conditions. community,” says President of Charlotte, NC Local 660 Tom In September this year, leaders of the largest metropolitan fire Brewer. He admits the events that unfolded were surreal — as departments, along with representatives from the IAFF, protestors became violent and looting began — but Local 660 participating in the National Fire Protection Association members felt prepared in this instance. (NFPA) Urban Fire Forum (UFF) endorsed a new Civil Unrest “We’ve trained specifically for community protests,” Brewer Position Paper and Sample Standard Operating Procedure to explains. “When the Democratic National Convention was held serve as comprehensive resources for responding to incidents in Charlotte in 2012, we trained on how to deal with protesters similar to the civil unrest that has occurred in cities across the and a crowd.” United States over the past several months. Local 660 member Mike Clumpner is a 25-year veteran of the Both a whitepaper and sample SOPs on civil unrest are fire service, a 22-year paramedic veteran and has been working in available at www.nfpa.org . n law enforcement as a SWAT operator for eight years. Clumpner has a PhD in homeland security policy and has extensively studied events such as large-scale civil unrest. “ese events can turn hostile in minutes. Fire fighters and paramedics are all of the sudden mixed in with law enforcement and it is very hard to distinguish who is law enforcement and who is a fire fighter,” says Clumpner. “Protests are very dynamic, fast-moving and can quickly become a hostile environment.” e IAFF has been at the forefront of

23 Entrepreneurs Seek to Speed Technologies to

In the next few years, turnout gear will likely be smarter and fire marketplace,” says David Irie, chief technology officer for CIT. “We fighters safer. at’s the hope for a budding coalition of federal found it is even more challenging for tech companies to break into agencies, technology entrepreneurs and the IAFF. the first responder marketplace.” Turnout gear imbedded with sensors that detect the types and levels Irie notes that while the defense industry has a vast and predictable of toxic exposures during a call, gather and store biometric and system for development and procurement of technology, no such situational data to study and trace a fire fighter’s long-term health system exists exist for the first responder marketplace. is has made profile is just one example of the products that are being developed by it difficult for promising technologies to successfully enter the fire technology companies and service market and benefit fire introduced to the commercial fighters. marketplace. e primary goal of the Emerge Other examples include program is to speed up the wearable sensors that provide current round of technologies to incident command with the marketplace, according to real-time situational awareness Brendan Karp, chief of staff for of all personnel and apparatus TechNexus, but the longer-term on scene and smart LED goal is to begin to create a system lighting imbedded in turnout of development and procurement gear for optimal visibility that for the first responder market. adjusts to the situation on the Karp says, “DHS came to us fire ground. two years ago and said ‘we need e U.S. Department of to build an industrial base for Homeland Security (DHS), the first responder technologies.’ Center for Innovative Technology (CIT) and the IAFF are working to Emerge is a good first step in that direction.” determine if these commercial products can and should be e challenge is that entrepreneurs solve problems they see, but not redesigned and offered to the vast first responder market, including enough technology entrepreneurs are exposed to the needs of fire police and fire. fighters, police and other first responders, or the vast market “If there is technology out there that can make fire fighters safer and potential. more effective on the job, then we need to do our part to help test it, A key to success in getting products into the first responder improve it and let the fire service know about it,” says General marketplace is making sure fire fighters and other first responder President Harold Schaitberger. stakeholder groups have the opportunity to provide input from the e CIT has partnered with TechNexus, a venture collaborative of very beginning. Fire fighters can confirm if there is in fact a need for a entrepreneurs and engineers, and DHS to launch Emerge 2016: certain technology, and if that technology will be helpful or harmful Wearable Technology for First Responders. is is an expansion of a in the challenging fire environment. successful program that began last year that uses business incubators e new technologies are intriguing, though there remain huge to speed the delivery of innovative wearable technologies to first challenges in getting new wearable technologies to fire fighters on responders. the job, including making sure they meet NFPA standards. In October 2016, at a symposium in Washington, DC, Emerge “You can’t just add things to turnout gear, then send fire fighters announced 10 companies — from a pool of more than 250 out on a call,” says Assistant to the General President for Health, applications — that have been selected to receive accelerated market Safety and Medicine Patrick Morrison. “Our message to this development using federal grants. Emerge program is to give us these technologies so we can look at “Normally it takes about three to five years for a technology idea to them, talk about them with our peers, test them and even let B shi develop into a product that is then sold in the commercial break them.” n

TECHNOLOGIES UNDER DEVELOPMENT THROUGH EMERGE PROGRAM

• Software that integrates data from wearables and sensors to give • A mobile vehicle-to-vehicle platform that uses acoustic sensors and responders real-time situational awareness. The platform can location data to connect people, vehicles and places within cities. operate on existing smartphones, smartwatches and tablets that The data generated routes emergency vehicles and civilian traffic active officers can use to then plan, execute and review operations. around incidents and builds historical patterns for traffic and property Features of the software include real-time personnel tracking, data to help cut down on emergency vehicle collisions. two-way text-based communication, video sharing and event replay. • Multi-modular integration for first responders and soldiers with • Exposure tracker application where public safety workers and fire skin-level remote physiological monitoring. This provides a fighters can document incidents involving health-compromising comprehensive plug-and-play wearable situational awareness and environments and leverage both biometric and situational data to communications platform that allows you to integrate any build a long-term health profile that can be acted on to keep fire combination of computing, communications, and sensor and fighters and other first responders safer. actuator devices into a wearable ensemble.

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Canadian Members Escort WTC Relic Through Atlantic Canada When air traffic was grounded across North Local 999 and fellow motorcycle rider who America on the morning of September 11, was rallying IAFF members to join in the 2001, the people of Gander, Newfoundland convoy. Sullivan and a number of Fredericton famously opened their homes and hearts to members biked with the piece as it made its thousands of stranded travellers whose planes way east through New Brunswick. were forced to land there. “As we rolled down the highway, it tugged at e bonds formed between the travellers the heartstrings,” Sullivan says of the ride. “It and their hosts are commemorated every year, hit home to me, because it was going to my and for the 15th anniversary, the town was home province of Newfoundland. We all gied with a piece of steel beam from the know what Newfoundlanders are like and the World Trade Center. As the steel relic made its effort they put in those days aer 9-11. It’s also way eastward through Atlantic Canada, it was a symbol of our brothers who made the escorted by numerous motorcycle riders, ultimate sacrifice on 9-11.” including IAFF members from several locals. e members of Corner Brook, NL Local e relic, from the World Trade Center’s 1222 organized an honour guard for the steel South Tower, le New York on September 6 piece as it passed through on the This steel piece from the World Trade Center in a trailer and arrived September 8 at the TransCanada Highway, with fire trucks completed its journey from New York City to Gander U.S.-Canadian border crossing at Houlton, parked on a bridge above the route. Local on the 15th anniversary of September 11. Maine, where it was welcomed on the 1222 member Jack Kenney escorted the piece Canadian side by an entourage that included for the remaining four hours of its journey, boarded the ferry to Newfoundland and members of Fredericton, NB Local 1053 and which totalled 2,400 km (1,500 miles) across Labrador. It arrived in Gander on September others. the two countries. 11 to a huge welcoming ceremony. Local 1053 member Glenn Sullivan says he Sydney, NS Local 2779 President Rick e steel piece will be used to build a received a heads-up about the initiative from Foote caught up with the piece at a stop in monument at Gander Airport. n Steve Crawford, a member of Moncton, NB North Sydney, just before the convoy

Anne Arundel County Local 1563 Helps Special Needs Kids Become Fire Fighters for a Day Anne Arundel County, MD Local 1563 Arundel County Fire Training Academy partnered with Maryland Best Buddies to and suited up in turnout gear. give area special needs teenagers the Each of the participants was paired with a opportunity to be fire fighters for a day. Local 1563 member who walked them through “We have seen what an amazing job several fire fighting scenarios, including water Maryland Best Buddies do in getting special drills, spraying foam on staged vehicle needs youth out in the community, but the accidents, victim rescue, fire engine rides program’s organizers are always looking for and an emergency medical scenario. new experiences for their youth,” says Brian Maryland Best Buddies pairs area youth with Holtslander, Local 1563 Communications intellectual and developmental disabilities Director and event co-organizer. “We e fire fighter for a day program was with same-age volunteers who help them live thought it would be great to show them designed similar to the IAFF Fire Ops 101 independently and get more involved in the some of what we do.” program. Participants came to the Anne communities. n

Canadian IAFF Members Exercise for a Good Cause With Push-ups Challenge IAFF members across Canada got a little Leduc, AB Local 4739 President Doug exercise while raising awareness about Britton, who participated in the challenge in post-traumatic stress and showing support for August posted a video on social media of his a charity that helps military personnel and Weimaraner pup, Dante, giving him a hard first responders. time on Day 3. Hundreds of Canadian members, Britton says it was important to participate including a group at the IAFF 53rd in the challenge as he has lost first responder Convention took part in the 22 Pushups | 22 friends to suicide, and that post-traumatic Members from across Canada participated in the Days Challenge, doing 22 pushups on 22 22 Pushups | 22 Days Challenge to raise awareness stress is an important issue. “If I can do consecutive days to raise awareness about about post-traumatic stress in the fire service. anything to help people come forward and get post-traumatic stress. help and raise awareness, I’ll do that,” he says, Launched by Wounded Warriors Canada, Similar to the Ice Bucket Challenge that adding that several of his members also took a charity that provides services to military raised funds and awareness in 2014 for ALS part in the challenge as did his fire chief. families and first responders, the campaign charities, social media played a key As the name implies, the initiative lends itself was so popular that the original fundraising component in the campaign as members to individuals and groups challenging each goal of $22,000 was quickly exceeded, and uploaded videos and pictures of their daily other to participate. IAFF Canadian Office now stands at $80,000. push-ups, some of them humorous in nature. staff completed the challenge in September. n

26 LOCAL SCENE Local F-263 Wins More Than $600,000 in Back Pay, Legal Fees Following a six-year battle with the Department were not classified as “0081 fire fighters” and, e FLRA investigated the ULP and found of the Navy — and aer confirmation by therefore, should be paid overtime for all time sufficient evidence to file a charge against the the Federal Labor Relations aer eight hours in a day, 40 hours in a week. Department of the Navy. e union filed a Authority (FLRA) — the Federal e Department of the Navy spent the subsequent ULP against the Defense Finance Firefighters of Hawaii Local F-263 next three years researching the merits of and Accounting Service (DFAS) for alleged has received $614,636.18 in back the case. Aer this delay, the case interference in the back pay award. pay and legal fees. ultimately ended up in arbitration in In July 2016, the FLRA, Local F-263, Local F-263 President Reid October 2014. In December 2014, the Department of the Navy Southwest Region and Shimabukuro describes this victory arbitrator awarded the class of employees back the Defense Finance and Accounting Service all as a “landmark decision for federal locals.” pay for three years. agreed to the amount owed to each employee In August 2010, the Federal Fire Department e Department of the Navy and the Federal and a date by which each employee will receive at Navy Region Hawaii hired 11 Health Aide Fire Department failed to comply with the their back pay. and Technicians (job series 0640) and placed arbitrator’s award and decision, forcing the Local F-263 reports that the Department of them in fire stations to work alongside federal union to file an Unfair Labor Practice (ULP) the Navy has since paid the union $67,303.64 in fire fighters (job series 0081). ese newly hired against Navy Region Hawaii (Department of legal fees and more than $547,000.00 in back employees worked the same hours as their fire the Navy) for failing to comply with the pay, plus interest, to all 11 employees. n fighter counterparts. arbitration order. Fire fighters in the federal sector are governed by the Federal Firefighter Pay Reform Act, which pays fire fighters for 38 hours of (in tour) The Past Re-purposed overtime in a bi-weekly pay period. e pay An old firehose has been put to good use in a reform does not apply to the 0640s. Toronto fire station, where it’s been turned into In January 2011, the union filed the Class a large decorative Canadian flag. The patriotic grievance on behalf of all 11 series 0640 piece is on the wall of Toronto Fire Station 332 employees, hired Labor Attorney Peter Trask on Adelaide Street West. n and took the position that these employees

Mississauga Local 1212 Promotes WFI With Open House Affiliates across Ontario are stepping up Affiliates were encouraged efforts to improve wellness-fitness to use the IAFF WFI logo programs for their members. Mississauga, on all fitness initiatives, ON Local 1212 hosted a successful their web sites and to Wellness-Fitness Initiative (WFI) Open direct members to the House October 26 for local leaders across WFI resources available the Greater Toronto area. from the IAFF. Local 1212 Vice President Ryan Coburn Among the attendees says more than 50 IAFF leaders and were two deputy chiefs, a members from 17 locals attended the signal to Coburn that Mississauga Local 1212 Vice President and WFI Co-chair Ryan Coburn day-long event to get more information wellness-fitness is much welcomes fire fighters from across Ontario to the WFI Open House. about WFI and how to develop and provide more than just a labor programs for their departments. issue. becoming more aware of the prevalence of “We saw this as an opportunity for locals “is was a very informative Open post-traumatic stress in the fire service and to learn about the WFI,” he explains. “We House,” he says. “We discovered that IAFF impact it can have on careers, families and have a very strong WFI Committee and leaders want more opportunities to discuss even fire departments. Peer Fitness Team, and have the knowledge programs and funding issues to learn best Ontario lawmakers are listening. and experience to offer locals that are just practices for their locals.” He adds, “Many In April, the Ontario government passed starting WFI and Peer Fitness programs.” locals are still trying to find appropriate the Supporting Ontario’s First Responders e key objective of the event was to bring implementation strategies for their Act (Bill 163) that creates a presumption health and wellness leaders together to department.” that post-traumatic stress disorder highlight wellness-fitness as a pillar in fire Attendees also heard from an IAFF diagnosed in first responders is fighter health and to recognize both member who recounted his experience with work-related. n physical and emotional well-being as part post-traumatic stress. Canadians, like their of the total health perspective. counterparts in the United States, are

Richmond, BC Local 1286 Helps Raise Funds for New Hospital Wing

Richmond, BC Local 1286 was recognized by the Richmond Hospital Foundation as the winner of its 2016 Community Cares Award. The local’s 217 members donated $250,000 to the foundation through payroll deductions, which helped build a new wing in the hospital. From left: Local 1286 President Cory Parker and Treasurer Jim Dickson. n

LOCAL SCENE 27 Congratulations to the Winners in bargaining process, including a special feature on a This Flipboard organizes Nevada’s fire-related news in one historic win for the affiliate earning back overtime pay for place for members to access whenever they want. the 2016 Media Awards Contest members. Best Affiliate Public Relations or The IAFF Media Awards Contest helps create a greater Honorable Mention Political Campaign or Project awareness of the important work that professional fire 2881 Fire Wire fighters and paramedics in the United States and Produced and submitted by CAL FIRE Local 2881 First Place (tie) Canada do to keep the public safe. The contest honors This well-designed publication provides members with “Correct the FDNY’s New Discriminatory Employment communications, reporting and photography that best information on fire service events, projects and union Practices” portray fire fighters and paramedics as dedicated activities. Produced by Steve Cassidy and Butler Associates Public all-hazards first responders. Relations with support from E-18 Media Best Electronic Communication Submitted by Thomas Butler, Butler Associates Public Best Affiliate Publication (circulation less than 1,000) Relations First Place (tie) This campaign raises awareness about the lack of First Place “Changing The Rules Of The Game” disability protections faced by nearly 2,000 new FDNY 1 FIREWIRE Magazine Produced by Tara Cardoso and Sergio Ornelas members. Produced by Jeff Allen Submitted by: Palm Beach County, FL Local 2928 Submitted by San Bernardino County, CA Local 935 This engaging video updates members on the progress First Place (tie) This quarterly magazine published by San Bernardino regarding fire fighter cancer issues – including the “Houston Mayoral Election” County, CA Local 935 provides excellent content to the affiliate’s participation in a cancer-related study with the Produced by Alvin W. White Jr., Brian Wilcox public, politicians and members. University of Miami. and Sean Dailey Submitted by Houston, TX Local 341 First Place (tie) Second Place 2 Houston Local 341 developed this public relations The Feederline “Cancer Awareness for Fire Fighters” campaign for the city’s mayoral election, successfully Produced and submitted by Greensboro, NC Local 947 Produced by Boston, MA Local 718 and the helping the local’s endorsed candidate win office. Feederline informs members on issues affecting their jobs Boston Fire Department and keeps them up to date on how their union is working Submitted by Boston, MA Local 718 Second Place for them at the local, state and national level. This moving video uses a creative and powerful concept to “Local 22 Helps Elect New Mayor” educate members on the dangers of cancer and measures Produced and submitted by Philadelphia, PA Local 22 Honorable Mention to protect against the disease. Philadelphia Local 22 members led a well-organized The Hamilton County Fire Fighter campaign to help elect long-time supporter and Council Produced by Anthony L. Murray, Travis Hawkins and Second Place member Jim Kenney as mayor. Creative Services “JFRD Close Calls” Submitted by Hamilton County, IN Local 4416 Produced by Mike Peery Honorable Mention This publication highlights the local’s activities and Submitted by Jacksonville, FL Local 122 “Public Safety Bond 2015” provides effective content to members. Fire fighters share their experiences on the fire ground to Produced and submitted by Coeur D’Alene, ID Local 710 help others learn lessons that could protect them if faced Coeur D’Alene Local 710 produced a successful two-part Best Affiliate Publication (circulation more than 1,000) with similar life-threatening situations. campaign urging citizens to support public safety issues and a $6 million bond to replace aging equipment and add First Place Honorable Mention new fire fighter positions. 3 The California Professional Firefighter “The California Professional Firefighter Digital Edition” Produced and submitted by California Professional Produced by Lou Paulson Honorable Mention Firefighters Submitted by California Professional Firefighters “LA City Council Endorsement Campaign” This quarterly publication combines good design and This simple, user-friendly mobile app puts all of CPF’s Produced by Jimmy Blackman, Jessica Tarman-Nassour, content to capture the attention of its readership. newsletter publications in digital form, making it easy for Irma Pomposo and Frank Lima members to access anytime and anywhere. Submitted by Los Angeles City, CA Local 112 Second Place 4 Los Angeles, CA Local 112 successfully helped elect The Capital City Fire Fighter Honorable Mention several endorsed candidates during a contentious city Produced and submitted by Washington, DC Local 36 “Professional Firefighters of Nevada Flipboard” council election. The Capital City Fire Fighter highlights the efforts of the Produced and submitted by Professional Fire Fighters union to protect members’ rights through the collective of Nevada

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Honorable Mention “Supplying Aid to Victims of Emergency” Produced by Lou Paulson Submitted by California Professional Firefighters This media campaign increases awareness of the Supplying Aid to Victims of Emergency program that establishes and reinforces the positive image of fire fighters and helps fire departments and their labor partners better serve their community. 6 Honorable Mention Second Place (tie) “JAFF and Caden Project 2015” “Capital City Fire Fighter: Lieutenant Kevin McRae Produced by John Long Special Edition” Submitted by Jacksonville, FL Local 122 Produced and submitted by Washington, DC Local 36 Jacksonville fire fighters partnered with the Caden Project to Following the line-of-duty death of Lieutenant Kevin deliver bears from Build-A-Bear to a local children’s hospital. McRae, Washington, DC Local 36 created and distributed a special edition of its magazine newsletter to honor his Best Community/Education Outreach Campaign memory.

First Place 5 6 Second Place (tie) “Safe Pools Rule!” and “Presumptive Disability Initiative” “Check Your Seats in the Heat” Produced and submitted by Greensboro, NC Local 947 Produced and submitted by Las Vegas, NV Local 1285 Greensboro, NC Local 947 developed an educational fact and Henderson, NV Local 1833 sheet to educate Greensboro City Council members and Las Vegas and Henderson fire fighters collaborated on a the North Carolina General Assembly on the lack of campaign to reduce the number of drowning incidents in presumptive protections for fire fighters in the state. their communities. The locals also collaborate on a captivating video detailing the dangers of leaving children Honorable Mention and pets inside vehicles during the hot summer months. “Ocean City Local 4269 Annual Report” Produced by Ryan L. Whittington Second Place Submitted by Ocean City, MD Local 4269 “Anchorage Survivors” This report provides the citizens of Ocean City, MD an Second Place (tie) Produced and submitted by Anchorage, AK Local 1264 overview of the work fire fighters and paramedics perform “Check Your Seats in the Heat” This public education campaign increased public each day. Produced and submitted by Henderson, NV Local 1883 awareness about the number of cardiac arrest cases This public service announcement (PSA) educates the Honorable Mention happening in the community and the action needed to public on the dangers of leaving pets and children in hot “Live Incident Map” reduce incidents. cars during the summer months. Produced by Frank Ramagnano, James Coones Honorable Mention and Matt Holtom Honorable Mention “Tower of Terror” Submitted by Toronto, ON Local 3888 “In the Line of Fire” Produced and submitted by National City, CA Local This web-based application shows all active calls that Produced by Lou Paulson 2744 Toronto Local 3888 fire fighters are working. Submitted by California Professional Firefighters National City fire fighters transform a training tower into a CAL FIRE Battalion Chief Paul Duncan guides his family to Honorable Mention Halloween haunted house, attracting 2,500 visitors for a safety as he works the devastating Valley Fire. Duncan, a “Fully Involved” safe and enjoyable event. member of CPF and CAL FIRE Local 2881 is featured in Produced by George and Lou Ann Lindblade, the “In the Line of Fire” video series. Honorable Mention Christine McAvoy “College World Series Safety” Submitted by Sioux City, IA Local 7 Best Social Media Campaign Produced and submitted by Omaha, NE Local 385 This 200-page hard cover book has 500 plus photos This video for the College World Series provides the public covering the history of the Sioux City Fire Department in First Place with tips for staying safe in the ballpark. Sioux City, Iowa. “PTSD Talk” Produced and submitted by Winnipeg, MB Local 867 Honorable Mention Fire fighters share their experiences with post-traumatic “All Risk: Kennewick Fire Department” Best Social Media Video stress in a series of well-produced videos, putting an Produced by Garrett Todd and Rawli Rodriguez important conversation in the mainstream. Submitted by Kennewick, WA Local 1296 First Place This video is used as a recruiting tool for the Kennewick “Beyond The Call” Second Place Fire Department and details the services provided to the Produced by Matt Davis “Left in Smoke” community. Submitted by London, ON Local 142 Produced Corey Rose This emotional video addresses the dangers of Submitted by Denver, CO Local 858 Best Affiliate Special One-Time post-traumatic stress and sparks a dialogue on the issue. Fire fighters speak out on the link between fire fighting Annual Publication or Project and cancer in a three-part video series. Second Place (tie) First Place “Camp Ignite” Honorable Mention “50 Years of Protecting California” Produced and submitted by Maple Ridge, BC Local 4449 “Arsonist Parole Denied” Produced by Mike Lopez In this video, a young women is encouraged to pursue a Produced by Jimmy Blackman, Ralph Terrazas, Adam Submitted by CAL FIRE Local 2881 career in the fire service and to attend Maple Ridge VanGerpern and Frank Lima To celebrate its 50th Anniversary, CAL FIRE Local 2881 Firefighters’ Camp Ignite. Submitted by Los Angeles City, CA Local 112 created a commemorative book chronicling the history of Los Angeles City Local 112 lobbies elected officials to the union. 29 9 10

deny the parole request of an arsonist for setting fire to a Honorable Mention Philadelphia’s aging fire apparatus and the risks to public North Hollywood restaurant in 1981 that killed fire fighter “Quick hit” safety as a result. Thomas Taylor. Photo by Scott A. LaPrade Submitted by Leominster, MA Local 1841 Second Place Honorable Mention A Detroit fire fighter uses a hand line to give the top floor “Great Falls Firefighters Always Striving to be Better” “Fire Safety First” of a hoarders’ home a quick hit. Written by Jenn Rowell, Great Falls Tribune Created by James Kennedy and Dan Vieira Submitted by Great Falls, MT Local 8 Submitted by Toronto, ON Local 3888 Honorable Mention Reporter Jenn Rowell spends the day with Great Falls, MT Through a series of social media infographics and “Park Rescue” Local 8 fire fighters and shares her experience with accounts, Toronto Local 3888 encourages citizens to put Photo by Matthew Gerber readers. Her reporting helped fire fighters build a better fire safety first at special events and on holidays. Submitted by Green Bay, WI Local 141 relationship with the local newspaper and made a Green Bay fire fighters drive through flames to rescue difference with budget negotiations. Best Fire Service Photo citizens trapped in a park. Taken by an IAFF member Honorable Mention Honorable Mention “Fire Officials Remind Drivers to Move Over” First Place 7 “Crews battle wind-driven grass fire in Surrey” Produced by Jacob Long, KSDK “At The Panel” Photo by Shane MacKichan Submitted by Professional Firefighters of Eastern Missouri Photo by Jim Marabello Submitted by Surrey, BC Local 1271 Many motorists panic at the sound of sirens and forget Submitted by Fitchburg, MA Local 3128 Surrey crews stop a fast-moving grass fire from spreading how to properly yield to an emergency vehicle. This piece This image captures Fitchburg fire fighter Sean Roy to any other surrounding structures. aims to show the proper way to yield to emergency adjusting the setting on the first due pump while flowing responders and what could happen if not done correctly. multiple lines at a three-alarm fire. Best News Story, Series or Feature Best Editorial or Opinion Blog on Second Place 8 First Place Fire Service or Labor Issues “Car Rescue” “Alarms Sounded Over Philadelphia Fire Department’s Photo by Kyle Martin Aging Fire Trucks and Ambulances” First Place Submitted by Bangor Township, MI Local 1682 Written by Aubrey Whelan, Philadelphia Inquirer “Show Firefighters Loyalty” Bangor Township fire fighters work to rescue a civilian from Submitted by Philadelphia, PA Local 22 Produced by Nadine Robinson, The Sault Star a car accident. This investigative report details the sorry state of Submitted by Sault Ste. Marie, ON Local 529

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30 Through her relentless efforts, the author highlights the the American flag to Captain Jason Farley’s widow during Honorable Mention errors and inconsistencies of the fire chief’s reports to a memorial service. “Fire Ops 101” council and media regarding the recruitment process and Produced by Julie Pursley, Glenn Weeling, and Terri the slashing of 25 percent of frontline personnel. Best Television News Story, Feature, Cope-Walton, WRTV Video or Documentary Submitted by Indianapolis, IN Local 416 Second Place Indianapolis, IN Local 416’s Fire Ops 101 event educated “Series of Blogs” First Place members of the media and political leaders on the Produced by Labor Committee, Third Rail “Left in the Smoke” difficulties of the fire service and the support needed for Submitted by Seattle, WA Local 27 Produced by Corey Rose, 9 News KUSA Denver training and equipment. This series of blogs provides valuable information and Submitted by Colorado Professional Fire Fighters raises awareness on anti-labor laws in an effort to get News anchor Corey Rose highlights the growing issue of Honorable Mention more members involved in political action. cancer in the fire service in a three-part series. “Long Hours, Little Sleep, But Fighting for Safety of City Is Worth it for Fire Fighters” Honorable Mention Second Place Produced by Dakarai Turner and Tony Marsala, ABC 2 “A Day in the Life of Toronto’s Firefighters” “Fire Escape Plan” WMAR Baltimore Written by Kate Fane, Torontoist Produced by Jennifer (Jen) Waugh, WJXT Submitted by Baltimore, MD Local 734 Submitted by Toronto, ON Local 3888 Submitted by Jacksonville, FL Local 122 Reporters gain the perspective of Baltimore fire fighters Toronto reporter Kate Fane shares her Fire Ops 101 In a public outreach campaign, Jacksonville Local 122 fire assigned to Engine 31 on April 21, 2015, when violent experience with her readers. fighters instruct citizens how to protect their homes in riots broke out and learned how the men and women of case of a fire. the fire department helped to protect the city. n Best Photo Published in a Newspaper, Magazine, Web Site or Trade Publication

First Place 9 “Amtrak 188” Media Awards Contest Helps Toronto Local 3888 Photo by Tom Kelly IV, Philly Fire News Submitted by Tom Kelly IV Connect With Media, Politicians and Public Philadelphia Local 22 fire fighters respond to the horrific Since 1949, Toronto, ON Local 3888 has conducted its engage in an informal setting, without any agenda pushing Amtrak 188 crash that stopped trains traveling along the own Media Awards Contest to honor journalists who from either side. At this year’s awards luncheon, a Northeast Region and killed eight passengers and injured produce insightful, unusual and dramatic coverage of the prominent local media anchor and the wife of a Toronto more than 200 others. work Toronto fire fighters do every day protecting their Local 3888 member served as the master of ceremonies, community. Each year, Local 3888 holds an awards furthering media interest and increasing publicity. Second Place 10 luncheon for members, the media and local politicians. Walsh, Coones and other members of the Media “Hitting It Hard” “The positive public perception of our city’s fire fighters Relations Committee flag stories throughout the year that Photo by Glenn Duda, Fire News is directly linked to how our members and our union are might be contenders for the awards. Local members are Submitted by Glenn Duda portrayed in the media,” says A Bridgeport, CT Local 834 fire fighter battles a large Toronto Local 3888 Vice house fire. President Damien Walsh, who also chairs the local’s Media Honorable Mention Relations Committee. Walsh “Everything is OK” works closely with Photo by Mark C. Psoras, The Reporter Newspaper Secretary-Treasurer and Chair Submitted by Montgomery Twp., PA Local 4890 of the Member A Montgomery Township, PA Local 4890 fire fighter Communications Committee comforts a young child who was involved in a James Coones to gather multi-vehicle collision and rescued without life-threatening submissions and select injuries. winners. “This contest is very Honorable Mention important as it allows us to “Matheson Tractor Trailer Collision” make connections with local Photo by Andrew Collins, The Mississauga News media, develop personal Submitted by Mississauga, ON Local 1212 relationships and recognize This photo captures Mississauga, ON Local 1212 fire them for their coverage of fighters making a difficult rescue after a car collided with a Toronto fire fighters,” says Award winner Kate Fane of Torontoist Magazine receives her Media Award tractor trailer. Walsh. for Best Web Blog from Toronto Local 3888. ˆHonorable Mention In addition to the Media Awards, “Establishing an Attack” three “Off-Duty” awards are presented to Local 3888 recognized with awards for “Best Photo by a Fire Fighter” Photo by Charlie St. Amand, Sentinel & Enterprise members who give above and beyond their regular duties and “Best Article by a Fire Fighter,” which are chosen from Submitted by Tony Alario while serving their community through various efforts – submissions to Local 3888’s own magazine, Fire Watch. Gardner, MA Local 2215 fire fighters extinguish a from responding to a sudden emergency to ongoing “It takes a good team to go through the submissions, but six-alarm fire at a vacant factory. community involvement while off-duty. we really see the value in forging these relationships,” says Walsh notes that including these special awards can Walsh. “We encourage other locals to start their own Honorable Mention result in added media attention for the fire fighters and the Media Awards Contest. It is such a great tool to strengthen “Honoring Our Fallen” work that they do. our connection to the community.” n Photo by Shelli Farley, The Claremore Progress The luncheon provides a unique opportunity for Local Submitted by Claremore, OK Local 1077 3888 to invite both the media and local politicians to Claremore, OK Local 1077 President Chris Hayes presents

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Thousands Gather for Final Farewell to Fallen Wilmington Local 1590 Brothers Chris Leach and Jerry Fickes

More than 5,000 fire fighters, family and To the Chris’ and Jerry’s families, friends He continued, “September 24 will be friends filled the Chase Center on the of the two fallen brothers and to their the day remembered as the day we lost Riverfront October 1 for a joint Memorial crews on Squad 4 and Engine 6, Lieutenant Chris Leach and Senior Fire Service paying final tribute to Schaitberger offered his sincere and Fighter Jerry Fickes. Chris and Jerry Wilmington Local 1590 Lieutenant Chris heartfelt condolences on behalf of the knew it, and all of you from so many Leach and Senior Fire Fighter Jerry Fickes IAFF, General Secretary-Treasurer Ed cities and communities here today with Jr., who gave their lives in the line of duty Kelly, the entire Executive Board and all our brothers and sisters in Wilmington on September 24, 2016. know your chosen profession is a Vice President Joe Biden, whose dangerous occupation. You don’t talk hometown is Wilmington, was among about it in those terms, you don’t focus the honored guests. Speaking to the on it day in and day out, but you know families of the two fallen brothers, he the potential realities of this calling you said, “On behalf of President Obama all signed up for.” and the entire country, our hearts go Following his remarks, Schaitberger out to you.” joined General Secretary-Treasurer Ed Biden assured the families, “One thing Kelly, 4th District Vice President Andrew we know for sure is that this Pantelis and Wilmington Local 1590 brotherhood and sisterhood of fire President Bruce Schweiger to present the fighters will never ever leave you. ey IAFF Medal of Honor to the Leach and will be there for you for anything you Fickes families. ever need.” Also speaking at the Memorial were anking Vice President Biden, Chris Leach Jerry Fickes Jr. Wilmington Local 1590 President Bruce General President Harold Schaitberger Schweiger, Wilmington Fire Chief remarked, “What an incredible honor to Anthony Goode, John Carney (D-DE), have you here to celebrate Chris and 302,000 members across the United States Senator Tom Carper (D-DE) and family Jerry’s selfless service to their community. and Canada. “We want you to know that members of the fallen brothers. ank you for always being there for all of we are here, standing with you and we Schweiger thanked all the current our members who are on the frontlines will be here for you in the days, weeks and and retired Local 1590 members and across our nation.” months to come.” Executive Board, the IAFF, the staff of the Wilmington Fire Department, and all the public safety entities who assisted during the difficult week. UFOA Local 854 Mourns Deputy Chief Michael Fahy Of Chris and Jerry, he said, “Deep down, they were identical. Both loved their e IAFF is saddened by the him, Local 854 members families, both loved fire fighting and both loss of United Fire Officers will miss his professionalism worked hard to make themselves better Association (UFOA) of New and his friendship. Our and everyone around them better.” York Local 854 member thoughts remain with the Promising to always be there for both Michael J. Fahy, a 17-year Fahy family.” families, he said, “We have to stay strong veteran with the FDNY, Fahy comes from a proud together.” Fahy, 44, was killed in the fire fighter family. His father, e house fire that took the lives of line of duty on September omas Fahy, retired in Leach and Fickes also injured four other 27, 2016. 2001 aer 33 years of fire fighters, one of whom is still in the A battalion chief of the service. hospital. Beatriz Fana-Ruiz, 27, who was 19th Battalion, Fahy was Michael J. Fahy Michael Fahy first earned temporarily living in the row house, has dispatched to a home in the his law degree and became a been arrested and charged with two Bronx with a report of a lawyer, but could not ignore counts of murder in the first degree, four possible gas leak. Serving as incident his calling to the fire service, joining the counts of assault in the second degree, commander, Fahy was outside the home FDNY in 1999. He quickly rose through one count of first degree arson and seven when the house exploded. He was the ranks, serving as lieutenant and counts of reckless endangering in the struck and killed by flying debris. captain before he was promoted to first degree. “Each member we lose in the line of battalion chief in 2012. Leach and Fickes will be remembered duty is heartbreaking,” says General Fahy had passed the promotional forever, their names etched on the black President Harold Schaitberger. “e IAFF exam for deputy chief in 2013, and fire granite walls of the IAFF Fallen Fire sends its deepest condolences to all who department management honored his Fighter Memorial in Colorado Springs, knew him well. We will always remember memory by posthumously promoting Colorado. n his dedication to duty and leadership.” him to that position. n IAFF 1st District Vice President Jim Sleven says, “Respected by all who knew

32 ACROSS THE IAFF Vancouver Members on the Frontlines of Opioid Crisis

For decades, Vancouver’s Downtown East dozens of times a day, Side has been known as Canada’s skid row in fact. It takes a toll — a rough neighbourhood where human on an individual’s misery is the tragic result of an ongoing mental health to see cycle of poverty, homelessness and drug such helplessness and abuse. suffering up close on a As Fentanyl and other dangerous new daily basis, to work opiates further infiltrate the extremely hard but to already-depressed area, Vancouver, BC feel that you’re having Local 18 has seen a huge spike in the little or no impact on number of drug overdoses, which is a problem that is stretching an understaffed and growing overworked fire department’s resources exponentially.’’ even further. In follow-up PHOTO BY RAFAL GERSZAK In June, Vancouver Firehall No. 2 testimony before the responded to a record 1,000 calls, the vast Health Committee October 18 in Ottawa, fighters in Vancouver today than 20 years majority of which were medical Local 18 Political Action Committee Chair ago. Local 18 is working hard at the local emergencies from drug overdoses. In the Chris Coleman and member Lee Lax gave level to advocate for increased resources. first eight months of this year, a gritty account of what According to the Coroner’s Office, the Vancouver members Vancouver members see percentage of illicit drug deaths in the responded to 2,287 In the first eight months of this year, on the Downtown East province in which Fentanyl is involved overdose incidents — an Vancouver members responded to Side on a daily basis. rose from 5 per cent in 2012 to 30 per cent average of 286 per month 2,287 overdose incidents — an Vancouver fire fighters in 2015 to 60 per cent so far in 2016. — and administered average of 286 per month. responding to overdose Abuse of the drug is also becoming a Naloxone, a powerful calls feel abandoned by problem in other parts of Canada, opiate antidote, 60 times so the city, which has so far including Ontario, which recorded 162 far in 2016. failed to adequately address their mental overdose deaths in 2015 and Atlantic Local 18 shared its views on the issue health needs. Lax noted that mental health Canada, which recorded 32 deaths. with the Standing Committee on Health, a and housing issues are at the root of the e rise in overdose calls also presents Canadian government panel made up of drug problem, which won’t improve until other hazards for first responders. e MPs that is currently studying the nation’s those issues are addressed. IAFF assisted Edmonton, AB Local 209 opioid crisis. In a brief to the Committee, Responding to so many medical calls in with post-exposure protocols aer a Local 18 President Rob Weeks laid out the one six-block area is also having a ripple patient suffering a drug overdose vomited toll the crisis is taking on fire department effect on emergency response across a in the face of a member who was resources, including its impact on his wider area of the city, as frontline providing emergency medical services, members’ mental health. apparatus oen have to come in from including providing post-exposure “Vancouver fire fighters are seeing the other areas to handle simultaneous medical evaluation and reporting devastating results of this first hand,” he emergencies, increasing response times. protocols and information on the wrote. “We are witnessing the tragic Despite booming construction and sharp infectious disease status of the patients fire human toll of this crisis on a daily basis, population growth, there are fewer fire fighters respond to help. n

FSPPFF Officers Re-elected to Fourth Term Federation of State and Provincial action. ese educational challenges to spread from Professional Fire Fighters (FSPPFF) opportunities very oen state-to-state or from delegates re-elected all three executive work like province-to-province,” says board members at the fall meeting in train-the-trainer Carozza. “As delegates share Bozeman, Montana. is is the fourth programs so leaders can their stories, they can also relay term for Chairman Peter Carozza, Vice bring what they learn what strategies work and what Chairman Lou Paulson and back to their affiliated strategies fell short. We learn Secretary-Treasurer omas Roate. locals. from each other.” Each state and provincial affiliate has “Since we have added these Going forward, Carozza, Vice two delegates who meet at least twice per trainings, attendance at our meetings Chairman Paulson and year to discuss issues facing affiliated has increased,” says Carozza. Secretary-Treasurer Roate are working locals and their members. Meetings FSPPFF meetings also are an to increase communication among include reports from each provincial and opportunity for provincial and state delegates in order to coordinate efforts state affiliate, as well as education and affiliate leaders to discuss effective toward common goals. n training opportunities on topics ranging strategies for addressing current and from pension and health care to political future issues. “It’s common for political

ACROSS THE IAFF 33 OPFFA Urges Province to Move Forward on EMS Issues

e Ontario Professional Fire Fighters truck will result in response times under six municipalities failing to meet their own Association (OPFFA) is lobbying the minutes, 90 per cent of the time, and that target response times for the most serious provincial government to establish the model should be facilitated by adding medical calls. It also found that while province-wide simultaneous flexibility in the current funding provincial funding for ambulances doubled fire-ambulance dispatch as a means of arrangement. Other opportunities they between 2005 and 2012, the number of improving emergency medical response believe should be explored are diversion patients transported only increased by 18 times while showing that the increased use strategies that can free up ambulances and per cent. of fire department resources in EMS is a reduce delays caused by patient offload at An OPFFA-driven pilot project that cost-efficient way to improve patient care. hospitals. involved six test sites proved that e OPFFA is also asking the province to amend the provincial Ambulance Act and e OPFFA proposes that a hybrid EMS delivery model with remove restrictions that prevent professional fire fighters who have a paramedic on a fire truck will result in response times paramedic certification from using those under six minutes, 90 per cent of the time. skills just because they arrive on a fire truck instead of an ambulance. e OPFFA’s lead role in advancing the In Ontario, land ambulance services simultaneous dispatch of fire fighters gets EMS issue on behalf of the province’s operate separately from fire departments, help to the scene of a serious medical professional fire fighters is another example and paramedics are not represented by emergency quicker. In Barrie for example, of how the unified voice of a provincial or the IAFF. While municipalities fund simultaneous notification got help at the state affiliate resonates louder in the fire services on their own, the scene of all medical calls an average political arena. province pays for half the cost of 100 seconds faster. It also OPFFA President Rob Hyndman says it of ambulance services. e showed that and fire fighters has had good dialogue with the provincial province does not set can arrive on scene 2:41 government on the issue, and hopes to standardized target minutes prior to soon move forward with the use of existing response times, but ambulance services 76 per resources in Ontario’s fire service to allows municipalities to set cent of the time. provide a cost-effective solution to chronic their own. e OPFFA also points to problems with pre-hospital care. e OPFFA’s advocacy on EMS many examples across North “Report aer report on land ambulance issues is met with loud rhetoric America where fire departments play from the provincial Auditor General has from within the paramedic integral roles in extremely effective shown that the continuous influx of money community, which calls for EMS delivery models. In Canada for into the system has failed to produce evidence-based decision-making even example, a number of Alberta cities provide results,” Hyndman says. “Our proposal will though there are no objective criteria to full EMS including patient transport, while demonstrate that the use of measure patient outcomes and the lack of in Winnipeg, adding a primary-care paramedic-trained fire fighters not only simultaneous dispatch in most cities paramedic to each fire apparatus has makes sense from a service delivery prevents a fair comparison of fire decreased EMS response times significantly perspective but is the most fiscally department and ambulance response times. while saving the city millions. n responsible as well.” A 2013 report of the province’s Auditor e OPFFA proposes that a hybrid EMS General painted a woeful picture of land delivery model with a paramedic on a fire ambulance response, with a majority of

Federal Members Gain Voice in Department of Defense

Aer three years of hard work, the U.S. federal IAFF members. “But when its own list, they said there were not Department of Defense (DoD) has operations do affect fire protection, DoD enough IAFF members to meet the granted IAFF members who serve as officials recognize and respect IAFF minimum requirement. DoD employees National Consultation members’ input.” Finally, aer much back and forth, the Rights (NCR). To qualify for NCR, federal codes DoD acknowledged in September 2016 While NCR differs from collective regarding the DoD allow National that the IAFF met the minimum bargaining rights, it does require DoD to Consultation Rights for labor requirement and granted NCR. give qualifying labor organizations the organizations with more than 3,500 On the immediate horizon, the IAFF opportunity to comment each time the employees. will have the opportunity to comment on Department is considering a change in ree years ago, Johnson reviewed the the rewriting of DoD’s fire protection regulations or operating procedures. list of IAFF members who are DoD regulations and review the DoD’s “Of course not everything relates to fire employees and determined there are occupational medicine examinations and fighting,” says 16th District Vice more than enough to qualify for NCR. changes to the DoD’s performance President Jim Johnson who represents all However, when DoD officials reviewed evaluation system. n

34 ACROSS THE IAFF Guide to Home Warranties • Large home appliances (washing machine, materials. If you have trusted contractors dryer, microwave, refrigerator, stove, etc.) for repairs, then getting a home warranty Some homeowners opt to purchase home • Central air conditioning and may not be the best option for warranties to protect themselves from heating systems you. If you want to take the paying large out-of-pocket fees should • Plumbing and sewage guesswork out of how long the anything break in their new homes, but is it repair may take, any possible worth purchasing one? Additional repairs, such as follow-up issues and finding the pools and well pumps, can be right contractor, then having a What is a home warranty? added, depending on the home warranty policy may be A home warranty is a service agreement homeowner’s needs. worth it. In addition, if you that homeowners can buy to cover specific purchase an older home that may require home repairs. So instead of finding and How much does a home warranty cost? more maintenance, a home warranty may hiring contractors or a repairperson to fix a A home warranty policy can range from work best for you. home appliance, home warranty companies $20 to $50 a month, depending on your For information about mortgages from will pay for the repair or facilitate the coverage. You may also need to pay a trade Nationwide, call 1-888-630-9099 or visit replacement of the item for you. ere are service call fee before a contractor is nationwide.com/iaffmortgage . n usually limitations for replacement, so dispatched to your home. e fee is you’ll need to review the terms and typically $75 to $100, and if it takes more Nationwide Bank NMLS #769318. To verify that a mortgage company or individual is authorized to conduct business in your conditions of your service agreement than one “trade” to fix the item that’s state, visit the NMLS Consumer Access website at carefully. broken — for example, if you need HVAC www.nmlsconsumeraccess.org. Nationwide Bank, Member FDIC, is a federally chartered and electrical repairs — you’ll have to pay savings bank and an affiliate of Nationwide. Programs What does a home warranty cover? the fee multiple times to repair one (including, without limit, fees, rates and features) are e repairs covered under a home warranty appliance. subject to change without notice. Loans, lines of credit, and credit cards are not insured by the FDIC. vary depending on the policy purchased. Nationwide, the Nationwide N and Eagle, Nationwide is Home warranty policies don’t cover items Are home warranties worth it? on your side and Nationwide Bank are service marks of included in your homeowner’s insurance Nationwide Mutual Insurance Company. © 2016 Nationwide Hiring a repairman, electrician or BKN-1445AO policy, but some typical repairs that may be handyman can cost $80 an hour, on included in a home warranty include: average, before adding the costs of parts or

ACROSS THE IAFF 35 Detroit Local Brings Hundreds of EMS/Paramedics Into IAFF

Even before the city emerged from the largest municipal bankruptcy nation’s largest municipal bankruptcy, in U.S. history in 2014. Local 344 began developing a proposal for Working with the IAFF, a fully integrated fire-based EMS model as Detroit Local 344 leadership part of the planning for restructuring the conducted a strong campaign fire department. to educate EMS union workers at vision is now a reality. On October on the benefits of 19, the city’s EMS/EMT and paramedic representation by the IAFF. union voted overwhelmingly to join “ey saw us do something Detroit Local 344, expanding no one in this town union membership by 240 thought we would be new members. able to do,” says “is is a big moment for Nevin. “We were this union and a real shot able to work with in the arm,” says Local 344 the mayor to President Michael reopen our The Detroit Local 344 Executive Board works in the field on Devil’s Nevin. “We have rebuilt contract and Night 2016. From left: Treasurer Verdine Day, Vice President William the Detroit Fire negotiate for Harp, President Michael Nevin and Secretary Thomas Gehart. Department through pay raises and unification and other benefits solidarity.” changes. It was clear that no other union medical plan, which he expects to be e move to add EMS workers to Local besides the IAFF should be representing completed by spring of 2017. He also plans 344 marks the latest milestone in the fire fighters and EMTs.” to move aggressively to boost EMT pay recovery period for Detroit members Already, Nevin is taking steps to bring and to improve their pensions. following the city’s emergence from the these new members into the Local 344 Detroit EMS had for years been

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36 ACROSS THE IAFF represented by the Police Officers e bankruptcy and restructuring were and solidarity among the rank and file. Association of Michigan (POAM), which tumultuous times for all of Detroit and its Nevin has organized the presidents of le members woefully underrepresented. unions. But Nevin says Local 344 is the public safety unions in Detroit to form POAM did not have standard union gaining strength and even leading the way the Coalition of Public Safety Unions, processes of bylaws and elections and toward a strong and more unified bringing together Detroit’s police and fire instead were led by appointed coalition of public safety unions. unions. representatives who accomplished little for “e city is, in fact, bouncing back,” he “e coalition is beginning to restore them. says. “Detroit is the life blood of Michigan and make positive adjustments for our EMTs began working with Nevin and and the city is rebuilding and moving in public safety members in wages and health Local 344 in January. e first step was to the right direction.” He strongly believes care, as well as other impactful issues,” he gather petition signatures from POAM that the improvement stems from sticking says. n members to initiate the decertification to the IAFF credo of maintaining strength process. e effort culminated in an election by three unions — Local 344, POAM and a smaller paramedics union — in a bid to represent the EMS workers. e final vote was not even close — Local 344 defeated POAM by nearly a two-to-one margin. In recent weeks, other unions have quietly followed POAM EMTs to seek Local 344 representation. PREPA REDNESS “We were able to work with the mayor to reopen our REQ UIRES contract and negotiate for pay raises and other benefits APPLIED changes. It was clear that no other union besides the LEARNING IAFF should be representing GAIN THE KNOW LEDGE TO LEAD AND RESPOND fire fighters and EMTs.” Accre dite d by the Higher Le arning Co mmission (HLC ) “We are focused 100 percent on Detroit 200+ online degre e and ce rtificat e pro gra ms, i ncluding Emerg ency fire fighters and paramedics,” says Nevin. & Disast er Management , and Fire Science Management “ese hard-working public employees are Rece ive co urs e cre dit fo r prior tra ining and co llege ex perience literally burning rubber off their rigs keeping Detroit and its citizens safe. ey Classes st art mont hly deserve more than what they have been Meet s academic re quire ment s of the USFA Exe cutive Fire Oce r Pro gra m getting and we intend to make sure this changes.” e city of Detroit continues a slow

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ACROSS THE IAFF 37 Fill-the-Boot Program Continues to Bring Big Dollars for MDA Affiliates hold Fill-the-Boot campaigns to raise money for the Muscular Dystrophy Association (MDA) throughout the year, and combined will raise more than $26 million this year. “For more than 60 years, our members have been working hard for MDA, filling the boot on behalf of this great charity,” says General President Harold Schaitberger. “ey know that what they do truly makes a difference in the lives of so many.” e time-honored tradition of filling the boot has spurred friendly competition among locals vying for the top fundraising spot. To date, Fairfax County, VA Local 2068 is the number-one fundraising local for 2016, collecting $521,509. A close second, Dallas, TX Local 58 raised $519,244. In addition to supporting this great cause, Fill-the-Boot campaigns can be extremely effective in increasing The 2017 Affiliate the level of public support for fire Leadership Training fighters in the communities they Summit (ALTS), to be serve. held January 24-26 in Anaheim, offers Helping propel Local 2068 into workshops designed to help locals establish the top spot, members broadened a Fill-the-Boot campaign or expand and improve existing programs. their efforts to include a social Learn more at alts2017.iaff.org . media campaign and used MDA’s online donation tool, which generated $3,000 to cap off the Fill-the-Boot ground effort. More than 1,200 locals “We collected on our county’s participate in the Fill-the-Boot busiest streets over the course of program, and many increased Labor Day weekend,” says Local their totals over 2015. 2068 Fill-the-Boot Coordinator West Jordan, UT Local 4624 Joel Kobersteen. “And we knew more than doubled the previous our brothers and sisters in Dallas year’s total, raising $21,430. Local Local 58 had raised big numbers 4624 MDA Coordinator Nate this year, and that we had to work Reach attributes the success to the harder to be number one.” competitive nature of the Because of the Texas heat, Dallas members. “We all want to do our Local 58 conducts it Fill-the-Boot best at everything, so I made it a campaign for three days in April. competition,” he says. e fire crew “While we were just shy of being that collected the most would win in the top spot, all of our members a trophy. Each of the 12 crews worked hard to bring in more than collected at least the minimum a half million dollars for MDA,” goal of $1,000, but the winning says Local 58 President Jim crew collected more than $3,000. McDade. In Midlothian, Texas, Local 3685 In third place, Houston, TX Local 341 collected $445,541. Local members made a few changes that Local 3685 President Michael 341 President Marty Lancton says he is proud of his members and Barker says helped increase the amount raised to $11,837 ($8,837 is already looking to energize them for next year. more than 2015). “We are also looking for ways to educate and motivate our new Focusing on higher traffic areas helped, but what really made it members to work hard for MDA,” says Lancton. As part of this successful was efforts to increase the level of public support for the effort, Local 341 produced a video of stories from some of its most city’s fire fighters — and MDA. dedicated members about the difference Fill-the-Boot efforts have “We have become increasingly active in the community, made in the lives of participating in various events,” says Barker. “Our citizens neuromuscular disease appreciate and trust us, and are happy to contribute to this patients. “It was really great cause.” n effective,” he says.

More than 60 Years Strong — In addition to Fill the Boot, IAFF contributions from year-round local events help support MDA’s efforts to raise awareness and provide professional and public education. Fire fighters also dedicate countless hours every year at MDA Summer Camps across the country.

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ACROSS THE IAFF ICON Beach — Rob Beuch, Jim Edgar, Clifton Geddis, Todd Knipp, Jerry Lazar, Kim Lerch-Fleitman, Thomas Lloy, IAFF Retirees James Philbin, Tim Richards, Rikki Stankevitz, Terry Teale, L3757 Corona Fire Fighters Association — Lynn Mata, L3898 Hanford — Jim Sunia, L3925 Manhattan A Salute to Dedication, Service and Courage Beach Fire Fighters Association — Mike Wills, L4291 Kingsburg — James Davis, L4635 Cambria Fire Fighters — Steve Bitto, Michael Gallagher COLORADO L0003 Pueblo — Kenneth Johnson, ALABAMA L0117 Birmingham — Jeffery Burleson, Lawrence Jackson, Salvador Jauregui, Keith Jepsen, Thomas Martinez, Gary Micheli, David Pechek, L0005 Lynne Hall, Lee Morton, L0508 Anniston — Matt Lowery, Sterling Johnson, Michelle Johnson, Kelly Kilmartin, Rickey Colorado Springs — Raymond Cass, L0858 Denver — L1349 Mobile — Ronald Broughton, Charles Curreri, King, Edward Larini, Reynaldo LaValle, Leo Lopez, Randall John Brackett, Michael Delano, Ricky Horn, Dennis Horton, L3201 Pleasant Grove Fire Fighters Association — Main, Alfredo Maldonado, David Marino, Daniel Martens, Fred Jonke, Dwight Messer, Richard Petau, James Ranney, Alan Linn, L4141 Prattville — Ted Hughes, Karl Wells, Richard Matheney, Michael McCrea, Robert McGuire, Mike Ted Romero, Gregory Taft, Richard Valdez, L2376 L5062 Saraland Fire Fighters Association — Willis McKnight, James Medley, Michael Monroy, Francisco Thornton — Mark DeLellis, Christopher Selby, Randy Cox Morales, Stephen Muehler, John Murray, Craig Nielsen, Wichterman, John Zink, L2403 Adams County ALASKA L1264 Anchorage — Paul Bezilla, Ginger Tiula Nua, Edward Nunez, Richard Paiz, Gregory Peters, Professional Fire Fighters — Eric Schultz, Chris Wilder, Susman, L4303 Juneau Career — Eric Goldsberry James Porter, Rudy Prendiz, Peter Pulido, David Raya, L3214 Mountain View PFF — Russ Benzel ALBERTA L0209 Edmonton Fire Fighters Union — Robert Rivera, Roy Rodriguez, Daniel Rodriguez, Richard CONNECTICUT I0069 Pratt & Whitney Aircraft — Rick Berndt, John Josey, Bruce Klasens, Terry Letcher, Les Sakurai, Douglas Salvatierra, Richard Sesma, Robert Michael Healy, L0760 Hartford — Theodore Borowski, McLean, Greg Seibt, Greg Wetherup, L0237 Lethbridge Shrode, Thomas Slack, Brent Spankroy, Jamey Tanner, Eric Carneiro, Kurt Cavanaugh, Theodore Cetola, Catherine — Val Exner, L0255 Calgary — Trevor Buckler, Robert Kelly Toman, Rudy Turk, W. Patrick Valenzuela, Rickey Cieri, Clifton Cooper, Bruce DePercio, Edwin Diaz, Gregory Clark, Jim Ironside, Edward Silver, L2770 Grande Prairie Wheeler, Radley Wong, Peter Xenios, David Zucker, L0230 Gentry, Jeffrey Godlewsky, Anthony Guiliano, Joseph — Tamara Gaboury, Terry Haughian San Jose — Jesse Guzman, Stephen Kleszyk, Stephen Hendron, Terry Jones, Theodore Kolosky, Thomas ARIZONA L0479 Tucson — Frank Pedraza, Steve Marsh, Teresa Mauldin, Ernest Valenti, Debra Ward, LeConche, Curtis Lewis, Edwin Lopez, Helene Lynch, Regeser, Tricia Tracy, L0493 Phoenix — Jeff Brennan, Michael Willcox, L0456 Stockton — Steven King, Mario Henry Mann, Carlo Marchetti, Juan Martinez, Joseph Alfred Dimas, Richard Franklin, Chris Fuduloff, Thomas McArn, Michael Simon, L0522 Sacramento — Jeffrey Partridge, Kevin Reidy, Albert Rivera, Cesar Rodriguez, Gibson, William Grischo, Michael Groeneveld, Timothy Hill, Aguilar, Steve Eggiman, John Gormley, Dale Heitzman, Juan Rodriguez, Enrique Sanchez, David Serpliss, Leigh Dale Hooker, Vincent Konderik, Billy McDaniel, Michael Edna Jamison, Scott McKenney, Terry Mehlhaff, Thomas Shapiro, Michael Smith, Frederick Turner, Vernon Tyson, Smith, Isaac Stockton, Robert Valenti, John Walter, David Nickles, Randy Smith, Rodney Tateishi, L0525 Santa Jeffrey Vendetta, Frederick Wallner, Mark Walsh, John White, Ronald Wilson, Theodore Wynn, L2260 Mesa — Barbara City — William Rodoracio, L0689 Alameda — Watrous, Terry Wright, L0786 Stamford Professional David Rodriquez, L2273 Globe — Damian Lopez, L3573 Annette LaPlant, L0753 Fresno — Peter Dern, Daniel Fire Fighters Association — Peter Bernstein, L0801 United Sun Cities Fire Fighters — Mike Bartmess, Escobar, Timothy Henry, L0776 Glendale — Thomas Danbury — Karl Drentwett, L0830 Norwalk — Richard Chris Block, Jennifer Brooks, Harold Brown, Ron Clark, Dyrness, L0778 Burbank — Peter Hendrickson, Kenneth Dominick, Christian Hansen, H. 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Tackett, L0879 Hot Springs — Jeff Bustillos, Charles Butler, Daniel Campos, Lowell Edgar, Enoch Cunningham, Neal Muhammad, Gustavo Perez, Saunders, L4078 Van Buren — Jerry McAdoo, T Siebert Richard Gonzales, Mark Karr, Larry Kohagen, Robert L0727 West Palm Beach Association Of Fire Fighters BRITISH COLUMBIA L0256 New Westminster — Rob Montgomery, Michael Moore, Raymond Padaoan, Gifford — David Dawson, Spencer Denson, Aaron Fells, Anthony MacDonald, L0730 Victoria — Peter Stephenson, L0913 Sears, Edward Spafford, Robert Stearns, William Taylor, Giambatista, Kenneth Kelley, Kevin Lewis, Washington Kamloops — John Kieper, L0953 Kelowna — Pamela Richard Toukdarian, Michael Valley, John Vincent, L1430 Moses, Kenneth Young, L0754 Tampa — Steven Fortier, Johnstone, L0953 Kelowna Eric Simpson, L1271 Surrey Ontario — Kurt Hager, L1479 Merced City — Andy Van L0765 Fort Lauderdale — Randy Bonsignore, R. Patrick — Lloyd Lees, L1286 Richmond — Lorenzo Arkari, Hoogmoed, L1592 Roseville Fire Fighters — Jeanese Gillis, Constantino Pazos, L1102 Hialeah Association Of Harold Dion, Craig Eiperson, Douglas Petraschuk, Doug Hanson, L1689 Fremont — William Beltz, L1775 Marin Fire Fighters — Oscar Diaz, Sandra Flynn, Thomas Hyle, Scott, L1343 Nelson — Gordon Rae, L1763 Delta Professional Fire Fighters — John Bagala, Brent Anthony Rocco, L1158 Clearwater Fire Fighters Firefighters — Kelly Small, Anthony Smith, L1782 Chadwick, L1879 Daly City — John Ballesteros, Michael Association — Charles Gibson, L1210 Coral Gables Coquitlam — Mark Lunden Chavez, Mark Estes, Geordie Hawkins, Joseph Holmes, Professional Fire Fighters Association — Franklin CALIFORNIA F0053 Edwards Air Force Base — Rex Timothy Hupke, Michael Rostad, Gary Souza, Alfred Ogden, L1365 Orlando Professional Fire Fighters — Bair, Michael Cooper, F0085 Federal Fire Fighters Veronello, Jeffery Yock, L2400 San Mateo County — J. P. Heaney, David Stern, L1403 Metropolitan Dade Association — Joseph Veca, Patrick Williams, F0309 Loren Moore, L2881 Cal Fire Local 2881 — Alberta County Association Of Fire Fighters — Richard Archie, Concord Federal Professional Fire Fighters — Berliner, Mark Bisbee, Raymond De La Huerta, J.H. Raymond Barreto, Robert Bertram, Joseph Cavallo, Carlos Mickey Hook, L0055 Oakland Alameda County And Douglas, Thomas Fischer, Dan Hebrard, Grant Ingram, Gimenez, Steven Mansfield, Richard Martin, Chad Morlock, Emeryville — Lamar Bencent, Eleanor Bolin-Chew, Russell Kane, Gregory Long, Warren Mueller, Raymond Carol Pastusak, Christine Rogers, David VanBuren, L1598 Marlon Brandle, James Calhoun, Tracy Falkenthal, David Parsons, Timothy Rader, Kerry Smith, Craig Townsend, Winter Park Professional Fire Fighters — Gary Brady, Hurtado, Michael Murphree, Tracy Patton, William Triggas, Kirsten Walkowiak, L2899 Anaheim Fire Fighters Thomas Hudson, L1826 Southwest Florida Robert Young, L0112 Los Angeles City — Gabriel Association — Matthew Banks, John Dale, Randy Professional Fire Fighters — Ruben Castro, Cliff Acrich, Jay Adams, Scott Akahoshi, Mark Alberi, Theron Gamble, Steven Lake, David Reed, Scot Semonell, L3501 Linzalone, Brian Lynch, Jeffrey Plybon, Matthew Baker, Michelle Banks, William Barrera, Gerald Bedoya, Vacaville — Mike Martinez, L3605 P.F.F.A. Of Santa Sederquist, David Tilton, L2057 Orange County Fire Philip Bernal, Eduardo Borrajo, Earl Boyd, Robert Brown, Cruz County — Derek Ridpath, Dave Weybright, L3631 Fighters Association — Carrie Allard, Paul Allard, Lisa Dennis Burke, Jose Camunas, Richard Casanova, Jerry Orange County Professional Fire Fighters Jones, Gina Pizarro, Melisa Rodriguez, Roy Segrest, Keith Coffey, Thomas Croell, Federico De La Vega, Dennis Association — Victor Adame, John Belles, Patrick Watts, L2201 Indian River County Fire Ellement, Ricardo Gallegos, Rafael Garza, Scott Gill, Harold Brennan, Frank Gonzales, Vernon Hansen, Robert James, Fighter/Paramedic — James Dupuis, Tommy Dupuis, Golden, Robert Gonzalez, Mark Gozawa, Richard Gregory, Stephen Rening, L3730 Carlsbad — Colleen Balch, Otto Lenke, Wesley Monnin, John Reschak, Lester Tyson, Kenneth Haiston, Ronald Harmon, Brett Heron, Mark Hill, Kevin Crawford, John Feess, Luis Osuna, Randy Peak, Brian Williamson, L2292 Professional Fire Fighters Of Jose Holguin, Daniel Hovey, Alex Icaza, Roderic Jackson, Gregory Ryan, Chris Wood, Jeff Zachry, L3734 Newport

40 RETIREES Pembroke Pines — David Cunningham, Steven Peeler, Michael Wheelis, L4321 Broward County — Timothy Forrest, L3234 Downers Grove — George Dougherty, Glen Gibbons, James White, L2294 Hayes Bowen, Garrod Copeland, L4343 Quincy Drobney, Richard Niedospial, L3405 Oak Lawn — John Hillsborough County Fire Fighters — Willie Ballard, Professional Fire Fighters — Stephen O’Neal Hojek, Michael Jensen, Spero Meklis, L3452 Hanover Robert Brown, Richard Castro, Ronald Combs, Gene GEORGIA L0134 Atlanta — Michael Blackwell, Winston Park — Jeffery Hoffmann, L3594 Wood Dale — Bryon Mulholland, Darlene Nye, Ron Russell, Vaden Webb, Bowers, Kenneth Hutchinson, Kendale Mitchell, George Polzin, L3766 Dolton — Raymond Ill, L3982 Bartlett — L2297 North Collier Professional Fire Fighters and Nour, Karen Nowakowski, L1492 Dekalb County — Billie Dave Bosse, L3985 Algonquin — Robert Haughey, Paramedics Local 2297 — Dwayne Wilson, L2396 Buchanan L4092 Schaumburg — Gregory Eck, Gary Karas, L4119 Collier Professional Fire Fighters and Paramedics HAWAII L1463 Hawaiian Islands — John Akana, Mount Prospect — Doug Lubash, L4329 Leyden — — Brian Beauvais, Dominick Biondo, L2424 Cape Coral Michael Ball, Peer Blichfeldt, Michael Bunner, Steven Albert Lewis, L4330 Bridgeview Fire Fighters — Professional Fire Fighters — James Rallo, L2546 Fountain, Bryan Goo, Paul McGhiey, Ivan Nakagawa, Jeffrey Wojciak, L4344 Sauget Fire Fighters Suncoast Professional Fire Fighters & Paramedics Daniel Wallace, Alan Yagi Association — Thomas Champ, L4588 Palatine Fire — Richard Austin, James Jacobs, James Martin, Carson IDAHO L0149 Boise — Michael Frederick, Mark Klinger, Fighters — Steven Laing, L4727 Addison Professional Sanders, James Stern, L2879 Ocean City-Wright Fire L0187 Pocatello — Kim Taylor, L0804 Nampa — Fire Fighters Union — Jeffrey Pottle, L4790 Fighters Association — Mark Avera, Daniel Coleman, Wayne Riley, L1773 Lewiston — Kevin Kalbfleisch, Carpentersville Professional Fire Fighters — Gregory Jeffery Gardner, L2957 Professional Fire Fighters Of Steven Repp Daily Leesburg — Glenn Peroni, L2969 Brevard County ILLINOIS F0037 Great Lakes Naval Training Center INDIANA L0357 Evansville — Beth Csukas, Michael Professional Fire Fighters — Kevin Cowart, Cheryl — Robert Smith, L0002 Chicago — Timothy Corcoran, Fields, Robert Gulledge, Daniel Kissel, Jan Land, Barry Hecky, James Keating, Anthony Mills, Jeffrey Money, Brad James Matkovich, Stephen Paukstys, Robert Popjoy, Rolley, Scott Stigleman, James Stofleth, Bruce Woodward, Williams, L2980 Palm Harbor/Oldsmar Professional Daniel Power, L0037 Springfield — Doug Deal, Bradley L0362 South Bend — Philip Smith, L0365 East Fire Fighters — Martin Forster, Aaron Gonzalez, Thomas Deal, Thomas Roate, Kevin Stern, L0053 Belleville — Chicago — Thomas Boyle, Roberto Martinez, Levi Wash, Greear, L3080 Metro-Broward Professional Fire Richard Agne, L0099 Aurora — Dwayne Love, L0253 L0410 New Albany — Jerry Banet, Stephen Byrd, Scott Fighters — Sheila Bennett, George Ferguson, R. 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RETIREES 41 Hamilton County Professional Fire Fighters Union — Daniel Townes, Steven White, L3666 Frederick County Steven Phillips, Joel Pierce, Peter Prewitt, William Rice, Robin Purcell, L4927 Warren Professional Fire — Richard Hartle, L4246 Salisbury — Gregory Hoppes Randy Rossner, James Sandbothe, Michael Wade, Dennis Fighters — Brad Rajski MASSACHUSETTS L0030 Cambridge — Thomas Williams, L0671 Jefferson City — Dave Clark, Neil IOWA L0004 Des Moines — Robert Cox, Dennis Lewis, Casey, Phillip Dooley, Daniel Lewicki, Edward Oliver, Mohrman, Doug Platter, Charles Skornia, Tim Young, Garry Miklus, L0007 Sioux City — Christine Heydon, William Wood, L0076 Somerville — Stephen Ortolani, L0781 Professional Fire Fighters of Independence L0301 Burlington — Daryl Bailey, Thomas Clements, L0143 Everett — Raymond Perks, L0172 Salem — — Kirk Goldsmith, L1055 Columbia — Travis Floyd, Kenneth Morris, Lonnie Nye, L0353 Dubuque — Robert Glen Beaudet, John Klinetob, L0718 Boston — Paul L1730 Raytown — Gregory Porter, L2665 Professional Lange, Julie Mueller, L1457 Newton — Bob Van Arkel Burke, Scott Coyne, Ronald Davis, Richard Finn, George Fire Fighters of Eastern Missouri — Bill Appel, Kent KANSAS L0064 Kansas City — John Budd, Randy Gilchrist, Liam Kearney, Michael Leonard, Samuel McCoy, Bessinger, Thomas Carroll, Gordon Hirtz, William Keller, Denson, Terrance Henderson, Ronald Jenkins, William Victor Munoz, Luis Priego, L0762 Gloucester — Brian Eugene Royce, Dennis Stubbs, James Tissi, Donald Treece, Jones, Thomas Krueger, John Tootle, Joe Weiler, L0083 McKinnon, Jay Prince, L0792 Quincy — John Carroll, Joseph Wittich, L3133 Central Jack — Carl Topeka — Gregory Bailey, Timothy Bell, Dennis Bowser, John Goddard, Ronald Shannon, L0841 New Bedford — Scarborough, L3228 Gladstone — Brad Myers, L3987 Dorian Branch, Richard Cervantez, Stephen Harrop, Craig Scott Almeida, Dennis Mendes, L0866 Waltham — Lake Area Fire Fighters Association — Vincent Loyd Percival, Michael Troth, L0135 Wichita — Jeffrey Michael Barnes, Edward Millian, Vincent Paolicelli, L0971 MONTANA L0008 Great Falls — Chass Perkins, L0448 Freeman, L0265 Coffeyville — Kent Bastian, James Woburn — Robert Heptig, L1009 Worcester — Thomas Helena — Kevin Kelly, James Vonada, L0521 Billings Grimmett, Wayne Joplin, L1596 Lawrence — Kathy McLaughlin, Stephen Provost, L1011 Haverhill — Daniel — Burt Fazio, Boyd Vopel, L2457 Missoula-Rural — Elkins, L2542 Olathe Professional Fire Fighters — Goudreault, Adam Wentworth, L1070 Winthrop — Al Rick Paulsen John Sanches, L4818 Professional Fire Fighters of Marley, L1111 Westfield — Marc Bourgeois, L1397 NEBRASKA L0385 Omaha — Anthony Gaines, Darryl Overland Park — Alan Mechtley, L4885 Professional Falmouth — Jeffrey Tavares, L1459 Swampscott Fire Washington, L0644 Lincoln — Scott Bastin, John Paramedics of Johnson County — Mike Platt Fighters Union Sheila Scranton, L1637 Belmont — Hibberd, Terry Houchen, L0647 Grand Island — P. Russ KENTUCKY L0038 Covington — Lawrence Cappel, Richard O’Brien, L1847 Wilbraham — Wendy Denning, Bolling, John Hogmire, Ronald Tubbs, L0675 Hastings — Stephen Greis, Glenn Johnson, Bill Mussman, Robert L1973 Agawam — Scott Barker, Gary Brown, Steven Bruce Sandahl Rider, L0345 Louisville — Joe Bivens, Kevin Brown, Castelli, Douglas Cesan, Brian Keefe, Robert Kerr, James NEVADA L1908 Clark County — Craig Bohannan, Joey Conway, Eric Dunlap, David Gawarecki, Oakley Lancour, Paul Nicholson, Michael Pietroniro, Raymond Gregory Fitzgerald, John Gibbons, Michael Johnson, Kurt Gillespie, Charles Hawkins, Luke Hosbach, Gregory Obst, Pond, Joseph Shaer, Jose Vazquez, Marc Yacovone, Leavitt, Jody Lombard, Kathryn Shiroky, Scott Whipple, Jonathan Scrivner, Steven Surratt, Michael Wise, Harold L1992 North Attleboro — Mike Dillon, Jeffery McCall, Paul Youdelis, L2251 Carson City — Michael Santos, Yates, L0870 Owensboro — Michael Hamilton, L1807 L2215 Gardner — Christopher Benoit, Timothy Tenney, L3895 Truckee Meadows Fire Fighters Association Winchester Professional Fire Fighters — Robert L2586 Dracut — Donald Couture, Jeffrey Rowe, L2647 — Kirk Harris Carmichael, Daniel Gurecky, L1928 Fort Thomas — Pittsfield — Peter Apple, Stefan Casucci, Elmer Gage, NEW BRUNSWICK L0771 Saint John — Kent Jeffrey Parker, Steven Rath, L2438 Cincinnati/Northern Michael Polidoro, L2894 Professional Fire Fighters Of DeMerchant, Kevin Green, Stephen Green, William Kentucky International Airport — Donnie Fryman, Raynham — Duane Mitchell, L4023 Charlton Hutchings, Paul Kyle, H. Brian McAloney, L1053 Johnny Williams, L3621 Richmond Professional Fire Permanent Fire Fighters — Michael Mahan, L4332 Fredericton — Jeff Mack, Jeff Storey, L2549 Riverview Fighters Association — Lloyd Kates, L3681 Dighton — Frederick Wilbur, S0002 Massachusetts — Brad Lane, L3591 Kennebecasis Fire Fighters Georgetown — Theousious Chenault, Tim James, Bob Port Authority Fire Fighters — Joseph Conner Union — Mark McCully Offutt, David Raisor, L3945 Independence Professional MICHIGAN L0116 Bay City — Daniel Salogar, L0344 NEW HAMPSHIRE L0789 Nashua — Daniel Doherty, Fire Fighters — Todd Kleier, L4060 Central Campbell Detroit — Carnegie Burnside, Curtis Butler, Brian Cleland, Michael Kass, Peter LaJoie, Timothy Soucy, L0856 County — Kevin Thomas, L4228 Dry Ridge — Terry Duerod, Richard Gainer, Vincent Griffin, David Manchester — Joseph Biron, John Burkush, Robert Jonathan Morrisey Johnson, Eldon Parham, Shawn Price, Jason Ridgeway, Morin, John Nowe, Normand Paradis, Kenneth Prince, LOUISIANA F0215 Fort Polk — Dale Richmond, L0540 Michael Ridley, Derrick Williams, L0352 Flint — Wayne L1088 Berlin — Gary Coulombe, L2664 Hampton — Alexandria — Benjamin Hooker, Charles Lane, Frank Lynch, Christopher Suszek, L0356 Wyandotte — Matthew Clement, L2892 Salem — Mary Burnett, L3154 Liotta, Ozias Price, Malcolm Rachel, James Williams, Gregory Garrison, L0366 Grand Rapids — Stanley Professional Fire Fighters Of Hudson — Timothy L0561 Lake Charles — Chris Johnson, L0619 Burns, Scott DeVoll, Jeffery Steere, L0401 Ypsilanti — Kearns, L3160 Londonderry — James Bilodeau, L3265 Lafayette — Danny Denais, Terrance Gahn, Larry John Roe, L0421 Lansing — Paul Hufnagel, L0504 Professional Fire Fighters Of Keene — Christopher Haywood, Earl LeBlanc, Mark Stoute, David Thibodeaux, Owosso — Chris Hawn, L0693 Ann Arbor — Matthew Cram, David Gaillardetz, L4546 Professional Fire L0632 New Orleans — Barry Caruso, Clarence Schroeder, L0838 Mount Clemens — Joseph Stark, Fighters of Pelham — Raymond Cashman, James Schneider, Wesley Spencer, Richard Thiberville, L1468 L0911 Birmingham — Joel Campbell, L1029 Foley, Richard Hanegan Saint Bernard — Brian Mule, Kevin Zanca, L4019 Southfield — Johnny Menifee, L1206 Redford NEW JERSEY L0286 Perth Amboy — Robert Ruston — Schuyler League, Nita Magee, Jeffrey Smith, Township — Steven Norris, L1381 Clinton Township Murawski, L0305 Irvington Professional Fire Fighters Charles Turner — Geoffrey Fecteau, Randy Kandt, Eric Moreton, Ed Union — Jayson Reid, L0384 Asbury Park — Tyrone MAINE F0123 Portsmouth Shipyard — Mark Bitomski, Wahla, Ronald Young, L1609 East Lansing — Tim Smith, Brian Wheary, L1064 Jersey City Fire Officers Richard Cassavaugh, L0740 Portland — Michael Ledesma, Stephen Peto, Gerald Rodabaugh, Anita Sukis, — Michael Anthony, Timothy Foy, Joseph Giancaspro, McTigue, L0785 Lewiston — Brian Bernier, Richard L1614 Roseville — David Walsh, L1929 Marshall — Dennis Kroll, Hector Rivera, L1066 Jersey City — Dostie, Normand Tancrede, L1624 Sanford — Brian Jeff Rhodes, L2289 Canton — Steve Apostal, Wendy Michael Connelly, Joseph Dillon, Michael Godfrey, Eugene Smith Murphy-Stevens, L2701 Trenton — Richard Benedetti, Halligan, Anthony Martin, Kevin McSorley, L3451 MANITOBA L0867 Winnipeg — Doug Barr, D. T. L3901 Egelston Township Professional Fire Fighters Middlesex County — Bruce Horvath, L3500 Bergen Borgfjord, Brent Donald, G. E. Godri, Del Hadder, Lorne Union — Daniel Willea, L4076 Bruce Township — County — Steven Linz, Michael O’Hagan, L4032 Ocean Heinrichs, Ward Hobson, Keith Kauk, Bruce Nicholson, Lyle Gerald Wright City Fire Fighters Association — Robert Goucher, Pogue, Kenneth Purpur, Timothy Ringland, Dean MINNESOTA L0021 Saint Paul — Thomas Follmer, L4370 Linwood Uniformed Fire Fighters — William Scammell, Perry Scott, Bruce R. Sykes, Brian Watson William Johnson, William Merth, L0082 Minneapolis — Hancock, L4897 Hillsborough Fire Marshals MARYLAND F0121 National Capital Professional Christie Nixon, Christine Pappenfus, L0993 Saint Louis Association — Dianne Riccardo Federal Fire Fighters — John Richter, Norman Wines, Park — Eric Curran-Bakken, L3939 Saint Paul Fire NEW MEXICO L2362 Las Cruces — John Avila, Robert F0281 Professional Fire Fighters Of Fort Meade — Supervisory Association — Dino Guerin, L5031 Boehms, Mathew Hall, Charles MacGregor, Gilbert Paez John Ruth, L0734 Baltimore — Derrick Barnes, Mitchell Brooklyn Park Professional Fire Fighters — Richard NEW YORK F0007 West Point — Paul Cheski, Joseph Brooks, Joshua Cain, Amanda Cherry, Angela Johnson, S0006 Minneapolis Airport — Dan Corrigan Gallagher, F0105 Fort Drum — Kip Bachar, F0214 Ferguson-Jasper, Francisco Guzman, Clinton Jordan, John MISSISSIPPI L0207 Laurel — Joel Blackwell, L1583 914th Tag — Richard Schwartz, I0065 Albany Airport Kidwell, Vernon Odle, Shanae Powell, Paul Smith, Richard Biloxi — Edward (Eddie) Williams, L3290 Gautier — Fire Department — Ronald Coy, L0032 Utica — Fred Stankiewicz, Tina Stoltz, John Townsend, L0964 Vance Cochran, L4992 Olive Branch Fire Fighters Bruzzese, Michael Candella, Christopher Houser, Ralph Baltimore Fire Officers Association — Timothy Nosek, Association — Johnny Morgan Lucia, L0094 Uniformed Fire Fighters Assoc. Of New Oscar Stinnett, Joseph Tomaschko, Robert Way, L1311 MISSOURI L0042 Kansas City — James Catlin, York — William Aaron, Matthew Albino, Scott Andersen, Baltimore County — R. Todd Binkley, Glenn Bitters, Dwayne Franklin, Terry Magelssen, Keith Reynolds, Chris Nicholas Barbieri, John Borgia, Kenneth Burhart, William Morgan Lambert, Mark Leidner, Steven Miller, Jeanne Riley, Lori Roethler, John Smith, L0073 Fire and EMS Burke, James Burns, Manuel Cabeza, Matthew Calandra, Scheide, Neal Simmons, Paul Trovinger, Brian Williams, Professionals of Saint Louis Missouri — Timothy Kevin Casey, James Chapman, Stephen Corr, Salvatore L1563 Anne Arundel County — Frank Brown, Jay Dangos, Christopher Severino, Thomas Suzor, L0077 Dagostino, David Daniel, Louis Dimino, Patrick Dineen, Clouspy, Christine Hajek, Michael Jarrard, Ronald Quetel, Saint Joseph — George Albert, L0152 Springfield — John Diodato, Alfred Doyle, Joseph Farrell, Antonino Kurt Rubach, L1619 Prince George’s County — Martin Joseph Bailey, Blake Cantrell, Kelly Cardin, Mark Ferrara, Brian Flood, John Gaine, John Gleason, Jason Ball, Michael Bell, Roland Berg, Arbrey Butler, Sayshan Clinkenbeard, Jason Conner, Jack Ellis, Rex Frieze, Griffiths, Robert Heney, Michael Hopkins, Robert Conver-White, Paul J. B. Cruz, Tamara Farrar, Jonathan Richard Ivey, Darran Kinney, Robert Monier, Olan Morelan, Jacobellis, Kenneth Johnson, Fernand Joseph, Brian Henson, Darryl Mansfield, Kenneth Stack, Jeffrey Teague, Ryan Mose, Michael Ogle, Spike Parnell, Brianne Parnell, Kantrowitz, John Keane, Nord Kidwell, Kenneth Klipp,

42 RETIREES Robert Labatto, Domenico Lamattina, Ben Laube, Robert NORTH CAROLINA L0129 Wilmington Professional Charles Jack, David Kebbel, Kevin Lehane, Edward Libens, Lopez, Daniel Maurice, Joseph McCormack, James Fire Fighters — Christopher Miller, L0660 Charlotte — James Marlowe, John McKenna, Michael Milano, Bruce McCue, Laurence Mooney, Michael Moore, Nicholas Terry Bell, Ralph Betts, Robbie Honeycutt, Gregg Keistler, Ryan, John Schuler, David Schuster, John Staresinic, Leo Moreback, Michael Moriarty, Anthony Muia, Stephen Thomas Montgomery, James Thomas, Cindy Zimmerman, Vacca, Scott Young, L0204 Warren — Paul Lamosek, Mundinger, Jarrett Murphy, Morgan Murray-Miller, Ali L0682 Winston-Salem Professional Fire Fighters — L0291 Lancaster — Matthew Dawson, L0312 Pasha, Thomas Peiser, Thomas Porti, Bruce Rowland, Charles Hampton, Kevin Maness, L0947 Professional Youngstown — Brian Dothard, Marcia Harris, L0333 Donald Rudden, Philip Sabbatino, Michael Schiavone, Fire Fighters Of Greensboro — Randall Brande, James Springfield — Patrick Casey, L0336 Middletown Fire Charles Shannon, Ray Spiegel, Daniel Squire, Kevin Stahl, Midkiff, Clifford Oakley, R. H. Smith, L2580 Chapel Hill Fighters Association — Robert King, Richard Turner, Charles Staten, Richard Stokes, Scott Swincicki, Robert — Dennis Bailey, L2723 Eden Professional Fire L0351 Bellefontaine Professional Fire Fighters — Tucker, Salvatore Ventarola, John Wrobel, L0126 Oswego Fighters Association — Landreth White, L3137 Charles Post, L0382 Lakewood — Kevin Flaesgarten, — Jack Crouse, Keith Mayotte, Ronald Nelson, L0191 Statesville — Jeff Leaptrott, Jaime Waiwaiole, L3393 Gregory Koney, James Laule, Dennis Nebozuk, L0450 Watertown — David Burns, David Compo, L0274 White Cabarrus Professional Fire Fighters — Justin Hahn, Saint Bernard — Steve Brannen, L0494 Cuyahoga Plains — Michael Fitzgerald, James Van Loan, Vincent Nicholas Kluttz, L4249 Jacksonville — John Romero, Falls — Jim Messenger, Robert Turley, Don Witner, Zicca, L0287 Long Beach Professional Fire Fighters L5066 Guilford County Professional Fire Fighters L0516 Shaker Heights — Ronald Sprosty, L0974 Association — Edward Thursland, L0461 Kingston — Association — Mark Sapier University Heights — John Pitchler, Randy Witczak, David Allen, Thomas Metzger, L0628 Yonkers Mutual NOVA SCOTIA L2094 Yarmouth — Robert Muise, L1184 Maple Heights — James Machen, L1501 New Aid Association — John Darcy, David Dronzek, Edward Richard Quesnel, Bruce Robbins, Stephen Taylor Philadelphia — Kendall Bick, Allen Daugherty, Brian Nehrebecki, L0729 Binghamton — Larry Ostanek, OHIO F0088 Wright-Patterson Air Force Base — Graham, L1662 Stow — Thomas Brahler, Steven Wood, Robert Parke, L0779 Johnstown — Kirk Horan, Jeffrey Matthew Clark, L0024 East Liverpool — Jeffrey Kreefer, L1832 Miami Valley Professional Fire Fighters — Kollar, L0859 Tonawanda — Timothy Newman, L0932 L0048 Cincinnati — Mark Bonner, Otis Chapman, Mark Mark Johnson, Douglas Maddox, L1845 Mentor — Corning — Mark Gurnsey, L0963 Lockport — Kevin Chetwood, Derek Douglas, Steven Kathman, L0067 James Pero, L2075 Liberty Township (Girard) — Pratt, L1071 Rochester — Paul Shaffer, Broderick Columbus — Timothy Allwein, David Arruda, John Jason DeLuca, L2373 Olmsted Falls — John Karl, Walker, Timothy Young, L1280 Endicott — Dana Bergman, Dayle Boyce, Sterling Burk, E. Dale DeBoard, L2380 Highland Heights — Roy Ruthenberg, John Stockton, L1394 Scarsdale — Thomas Cain, L1404 Norina Ferguson Clark, John Ferner, George Fulcher, Zehe, L2490 Pepper Pike — George Campany, L2492 Norwich — Michael Powell, L1446 Auburn — Michael Anthony Haile, Andrew Haldeman, Donald Halfhill, Richard Shelby — Jeffrey Burrer, L2619 Mayfield Village — Bozek, L1586 Greenburgh — Bernard Mahoney, John Hayes, Jeffrey Jahn, Stuart Johnson, Robert Karn, Mark John Lisy, L2818 Mifflin Township Professional Fire Malone, Matthew Talbert, L2007 Albany — Paul Mineau, Lawless, James Lewis, Martin Lieb, Jeffrey Mixon, Lana Fighters Association — George Gulick, Brian VanMeter, William Moore, John Musella, Matthew Stone, L2029 Rye Moore, Todd Myers, Katelyn Neil, Dale Olney, Rex Osborne, L2882 Strongsville Fire Fighters Association — Dave — Harold Aken, Daniel DeCarlo, L2213 Pelham — Chris Carl Page, Chris Poling, Joseph Pulizzi, Billy Reedus, Rick Yeager, L2927 Green Township Professional Fire McCann, L2393 Arlington — Howard Adams, Mark Schoch, John Schroeder, Kent Searle, Donald Sheridan, St. Fighters Union — Thomas Dietz, Russ Ruberg, Edward Karn, Edward Madison, Daniel Murray, Michael Rusnock, Julian Simmons, William Smith, Ronald Tilson, Eric Turner, Thomas, L2964 Green Township — Charles Morgan, L2478 Hamburg — Donald O’Bryant, L2931 Fredonia Ray Wine, David Wittman, Timothy Woods, L0088 L2981 Moraine — Charles Gambill, L3025 West Professional Fire Fighters Association — Carl Brandt, Zanesville — Gale Law, L0092 Toledo — John Licking Professional Fire Fighters — Delmar Williams, L2956 Lake Mohegan — Peter Hoellger, L3063 Fulton Loscudo, George Simko, L0093 Cleveland — Terry L3036 Washington Township(Dublin) — Stefano — R. 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RETIREES 43 Robert McGowan, L3480 Westerville Professional Fire Woodward — Kyle Covalt, L2567 Jenks — Paul Stratford — Kerry White, L0791 Waterloo — Richard Fighters — Gary Schubert, L3632 Cortland — Anthony Jenkins, L2814 Vinita Fire Fighters Association — Steinman, L0938 Collingwood — William Thurman, McMillion, L4027 Springdale Professional Fire Michael Williams, L3910 Newcastle Fire Department L1068 Brampton — Dan Callaghan, Ross McClure, Fighters — Bob Frank, Ralph Richey, L4175 — Donnie Sullins Wayne Robinson, John Terry, L1212 Mississauga — K. Sugarcreek Township — Heath Williams, L4265 ONTARIO I0444 Chalk River Professional Fire Rick Lang, L1351 Elliot Lake — Ken Barnes, L1582 Uhrichsville — Rocky Dryden Fighters Association — Ron Hartwick, Dean Stewart, Oakville — R. Ballard, Renzo Rinaldi, L1595 Vaughan OKLAHOMA F0211 Tinker Air Force Base — Lenwood L0162 Ottawa — Jeff Crawford, Peter Cutler, Jacques Professional Fire Fighters — Mary Carr, John Caruso, Wilkerson, L0157 Oklahoma City — Rodney Berend, Martin, Paul Mombourquette, Ken Provost, Danny Barry Gougeon, John Hicks, Pat Lucarelli, Edward Newton, Robin Colbert, Randal Elmore, Michael Fletcher, Steven Thomsen, L0193 Thunder Bay — Dan Hyvarinen, Larry L1753 Barrie — Rudy Kliewer, L1957 Richmond Hill Grellner, Lee Hodges, Michael James, Kevin Lanier, David Warner, L0284 North Bay — Brian Emond, L0288 — Kenneth MacLeod, L2036 Whitby — Douglas Miller, Mitchell, Jimmy Mitchell, Martin Thorne, L0176 Tulsa — Hamilton — Randy Bukowski, Douglas Bullock, David L2511 Central York — Lester Chaisson, William Debra Bailey, Donald Burnett, Jerry Eckhart, Steve Christopher, Richard Donald, Nikolas Gruevski, Bob Gardner, Mark Robinson, L3804 Innisfil — Jim Hunter, Nasworthy, Mark Sipe, L1882 Lawton — Antonio Phillips, Manojlovich, Patrick McCafferty, J. Greg Phillips, John Robert Willison, L3888 Toronto Professional Fire Jermiah Wilson, L2047 Moore — John Rosson, L2066 Pringle, Lawrence Rees, Stuart Sauer, Gordon Scott, Neil Fighters — John Downs, Gary English, Andrew Fife, Midwest City — Shane Campbell, L2095 Stillwater — Shaubel, Henry Watson, L0455 Windsor Professional Joseph Gobin, William Griffiths, David Grimshaw, Gary B. Scott Anderson, Michael Eytcheson, Steve Simma, Fire Fighters — Douglas Emery, Ken McAgy, Gerald Hastings, Larry Holmes, David Joakim, John Jones, Robert L2115 Nichols Hills — Roger Straka, L2359 Edmond Pfaff, L0485 St. Catharines — Joseph Cheliak, Hartmut Lethbridge, Donald Lines, Paul Love, Charles Maitland, — Lance Breeden, Lance Morrison, Carl Wilson, L2560 Penner, L0497 Belleville — Will McDowell, L0534 Robert McDonald, John Morache, Craig Ogilvie, Jack Ritchie, Bill Sheppard, Danny Stacheruk, Ian Torrance, Peter Trzecak, Maarten Van Wyk, L4152 Whitchurch-Stouffville — Tom Brillinger OREGON L0314 Salem — Eric Berning, Robin Chitwood, Joel Malstrom, Paul Telfer, Jospeh Terleski, Bryan Turner, L0851 Lane Professional Fire Fighters Association IAFF member s — Dana Burwell, L1062 Gresham — James Holley, Gary Martin, L1159 Clackamas County — Mark Anderson, Patrick Bigelow, James Donahue, Chris Geiger, Michael ear n mor e Jordon, Mark Liepold, Theodore Maas, Steven Olson, Wayne Pieschel, L1660 Tualatin Valley — Brian Classen, David Halley, L2240 Corvallis — Christina Harrison, L3650 Redmond — D. Stratton Poindexter, L4619 Newport Professional Fire Fighters Association — Richard Giles PENNSYLVANIA L0010 McKeesport — Gerald Tedesco, L0022 Philadelphia — William Di Bruno, Tyrone Goodwin, Michael Hagan, William Jordan, Amador % Rolon, John Seagrave, Joseph Tracy, Gary Weisler, L4837 APY * Bensalem Township Career Fire Fighters Association — Kevin Costello RHODE ISLAND L0732 Woonsocket — David 1.1 0 DeGrange, L0799 Providence — John Griffin, Kevin IAFF -F C R ecr uit ment S avings A ccount Lonergan, Michael Morse, Scott Shangraw, L1261 Pawtucket Fire Fighters — Robert Barton, David Boisclair, Robert Burns, Michael Callahan, Earl Daley, Jeffrey Johnson, John Karbowski, Stephen Lennon, Robert Neill, Norman Pike, Richard Slater, John Smith, L1363 Cranston — David Dimaio, Anthony Kaskiewicz, Gerald Don ’t m iss A malgamated B ank’s l atest o er, e xclus ively Murphy, L1949 Portsmouth — Brendan Martin, Norman for I AFF m embers — a p rom otiona l-rate s avings a ccount Moore, Darryl Sieben with n o m on thly m aintena nce fe e a nd a $ 250.00 SASKATCHEWAN L0181 Regina Professional Fire minimum t o op en. Fighters Association — Tony Carteri, Dwaine Davidson, Randy Fuchs, Len Herauf, Bob Maurice, Trevor Parisien, Randy Sebulsky, Ivan Wagner Bank w ith a u nio n b ank. TENNESSEE L0065 Knoxville — Robert Payne, L0140 Visit a malgamatedbank.com /ia or c all Nashville — Donald Freeman, Larry Frierson, David Hill, Kristian Murphy, Raymond Nash, James Norman, Michael 855- 741-4 245 to op en y our a ccount t oday. Turner, Michael Wilkerson, L1784 Memphis — Christopher Camp, W. Shannon Jones, L1850 Jackson — Lindsay Roberts, L2585 Shelby County — Ronald Benson, Charles Parkinson TEXAS F0299 Fort Bliss — Sergio Sosa, I1117 Pantex — Phil Cleveland, John Darnell, Armando Mendoza, Danny Salazar, Randy Strickland, L0058 Dallas — David w w m w.iaff-fc.co F INA IAL Bell, Rett Blankenship, Alfonso Brisienio, Frank Drahos, CO NC N RPORATIO Frank Gamez, Bill Garrett, Mario Lopez, Michael McGehee, Wade McMillan, Russell Mills, David Moreno, David *The A nnu al P ercentage Y ield ( APY) i s a ccurate a s o f D ecember 2 4, 2 015. A m inimum Pinales, Bernard Roth, John Shook, Jerry Skelton, Frank deposit o f $ 250.00 i s r equired t o o pen. T he p romotional i nterest r ate o f 1 .10% A PY i s Ward, Melissa Wisely, L0341 Houston — Laura available f or t he fi rst 1 2 m onths f rom a ccount o pening o n t he e ntire b alance. A v ariable Archibald, Philip Borski, Johnny Butler, Kenneth Caraway, tiered i nterest r ate w ill a pply a fter t he p romotional 12-month p eriod e nds. T hat variable t iered i nterest r ate w orks a s f ollows: i f t he d aily b alance i s $ 249.99 o r l ess t he John Carrion, Royal Carter, Michael Casey, William interest r ate a pplied t o t he e ntire b alance i s 0 .01% A PY a s o f D ecember 2 4, 2 015. I f t he Cassidy, Joseph Clark, David Crawford, Damon Doherty, daily b alance i s $ 250.00 o r g reater t he i nterest r ate a pplied t o t he e ntire b alance i s Michael Donihoo, Terry Gardiner, Larry Gilbert, Paul 0.40% A PY a s o f D ecember 2 4, 2 015. R ates a re s ubject t o c hange a fter t he a ccount i s Hamilton, Steven Harrelson, James Henson, Daniel opened. Fees m ay redu ce e arnings. E xcess transaction f ees f or m ore than the nu mber of permitted t ransactions m ay a pply. U nlimited i n-person d eposits a nd w ithdrawals; o ther Inocincio, James Johnson, Steven Langford, Woodford transactions l imited t o 6 p er m onth. O er g ood f or o nly I AFF m embers. P romotional Lusk, John Maguire, John Marshall, John McClure, rate o er m ay b e c hanged o r w ithdrawn a t a ny t ime w ithout n otice. A ll a ccounts Charles Neal, Mickey Owens, David Raupp, Joseph subject t o t he B ank’s A ccount O pening D isclosures. © 2 015 A malgamated B ank. All r ights r eserved. E qual O pportunity L ender. R ev. 1 2/2 015 Schwaiger, John Seamans, James Soukup, Larry Spann, Douglas Trimmer, L0399 Beaumont — Charles Cox,

44 RETIREES Marcus Rogers, Stanley Stewart, L0432 Wichita Falls — Paul Parks, Nicholas Taylor, David Wharff, L0552 Ogden Tim Wright, L0437 Bremerton — Gary Bowman, John Brad Corley, Kevin Scholl, Michael Skipworth, Robert — Stephen Splinter, L1696 Salt Lake County — Hawkins, Tab Severns, L0468 Olympia — Ray McDonald, Whiteley, L0440 Fort Worth — James Adams, Gary Cole, Douglas Rice, Gaylord Scott, L2970 West Valley City — L0726 Pierce County Professional Fire Fighters — Freddie Ford, Charles Gee, Richard LeDoux, John Miller, John Arnold, L5077 North View Professional Fire Michael Ampe, Patrick Donovan, Kevin Gray, L1296 Ricardo Neaves, M. Kyle Omberg, Alex Santa Cruz, Fighters — Gordon Flinders Kennewick — Joseph Krajcik, Fred Ness, L1433 Pasco Gregory Stone, Norman Williams, L0872 Laredo — Burt VIRGINIA F0025 Tidewater Federal Fire Fighters — — Scott Lemburg, L1488 West Pierce Fire Fighters — Cox, Juan Lara, Luis Rubalcaba, L0883 Tyler — Dexter Paul Barber, Harold Harper, L0068 Norfolk — Jerry Lloyd Christianson, Gregory Johnson, L1537 Anacortes Cook, Ken Langley, James Pike, L0886 San Angelo — Cowand, L0995 Richmond — J. R. Duncan, L1568 — Donald Tidrington, L1747 Kent — Jeff Barsness, Lee Dressler, L0906 Marshall Fire Fighters Henrico County — Daniel Bareford, Brian Bennett, Michael Ernst, Barbara Heesen, Jeffery Kurle, Brian Association — Zachary Thompson, L0936 Corpus Michael Edwards, J. M. Spivey, L2068 Fairfax County Renner, Paul Wright, L1762 Mercer Island — Robert Christi — Martin Vara, L0972 Lubbock — Keno Martin, Professional Fire Fighters And Paramedics — Allen Barden, John Bridenbaugh, L1805 Clark County Fire Robert Perkins, Jim Settle, Ross White, L0975 Austin — Comer, Eric Forbach, Charles Harman, Glenn Jackson, District 6 — Jeffery Firstenburg, Michael Hollingsworth, David Bailey, David Bearden, John Doyle, Kenneth Walter Johnson, John Morris, Clarke Slaymaker, Joseph Larry Reese, L2299 Clarkston — Patrick Emerich, Rolin Erickson, Dennis Farris, Donald Klepac, Douglas Kusey, Vacchio, L2141 Alexandria — Nela Hanson, L2449 Heytvelt, L2444 Camas — Wesley Long, L2595 King William Leonard, David Neighbor, Lonnie Owen, Troy Chesapeake — Susan Hellstrom, Christopher Kreisel, County Paramedics — Tony Scoccolo, L2781 Wenzel, Hugh Woodard, L0997 Greenville — Tod L2450 Hampton — Norwood Evans, L2598 Prince Snohomish County Fire District 7 — Janet Jaeger, McMahan, L1173 Baytown — Charles Murrell, L1291 William Professional Fire Fighters Inc. — James Greg Prince, L2878 Eastside Fire & Rescue — Kevin Denton — Audie Morris, L1518 Mesquite — Woodrow Carter, Robert Clemons, James Cooke, Jeffery Crawford, Jones, Robert Venera, L2903 Lacey — Bob Petersen, Courtney, L1665 Odessa — Kavin Tinney, L2149 Plano Jerome Geisler, Bradford Miller, L2702 Fairfax City — L3235 Snohomish County Fire District 8 — R. — Tony Brown, Robert Mason, Craig Swaner, L2602 David Miller, L2801 Suffolk Professional Fire And Nicholas Harris, L3427 Skagit County Paramedic McAllen — Gregorio Lugo, L2661 Professional Fire Rescue — Linwood Baker, Thomas Johnson, Darren Association — Jay Fallihee Fighters of McKinney — Keri Price Grant, L2731 Owen, L2803 Chesterfield County Professional Fire WEST VIRGINIA L0012 Wheeling — Thomas Donathan, Conroe — James Cariker, John Riddle, L2863 Fighters Assn. — Clyde Kirby, Randall Lordi, C. David L0091 Parkersburg — Scott Jenkins, L0805 Brownwood — Robert Myers, L3010 Waxahachie — Throckmorton, L2924 Virginia Beach Professional Fire Martinsburg — Donna Harmison, Ronald Talbott, L0837 Len Crow, James Irvin, Randel Muirhead, L3358 Rowlett Fighters — Charlie Farlow, L3406 Norfolk Airport — South Charleston — Robert Wandling — Shain Hunn, Eric Zimmerman, L3512 Gainesville — Hilton Gray, L3756 Loudoun Career — Michael WISCONSIN L0127 La Crosse — Michael Suchla, Jack Frost, L3599 Mansfield — Pete Bravo, L3606 Mahoney, Michael Richardson, L3886 Spotsylvania L0141 Green Bay — Jerrold Johnson, James Van Dyck, Lewisville — Derek Pollard, L3685 Midlothian — County Career Fire Fighters — Christopher Albertella Dean Wickman, L0215 Milwaukee — Terrence Curtis, Kevin Lucia, Shawn Sims, L3731 Keller — Eliazar Perez, WASHINGTON I0024 Hanford — Gerard Hickson, Ricky Ertl, Stephen Gaenslen, Christopher Gauthier, Peter David Simmons, L4146 Stephenville — Jerry Powers, James VanHorn, I0066 Boeing Fire Fighters — Landkowski, Michael Lange, Scott Lassa, Christopher L4183 Montgomery County — James Cariker, L4193 Christopher Benefield, Robert Hesting, Keith Mathers, Ted Mancuso, L0368 Manitowoc — Brian Muck, L0487 Eau Prosper — Heath Harris, L4331 Longview Sobottka, Robert Stretch, L0027 Seattle — Reginald Ball, Claire — Michael Laska, L1594 Kaukauna — Jon Professional Fire Fighters — Ronald Clower, Hilton Jay, Gregory Bennett, Ricardo Castro, David Iranon, Dianna Miller, L1816 Chippewa Falls — Charles Goettl, L2939 Jared Maddox, Russell Marshall, Steve Oram, Stoney Knue, Jeffery Milton, Calvin Moland, Christopher Orkiolla, South Shore Fire Fighters — Charles Haas, Michael Stone Nicholas Ponce, Mitzi Simmons, L0029 Spokane — Mansell, Scott Walquist, L3879 Menomonee Falls — UTAH L0081 Salt Lake City — Jim Galusha, Leonard Jeffery Hager, James McNamee, Timothy Ventress, L0046 Kevin Budzien Iversen, Dean Kraus, Doug McKinney, David Mickelson, Everett — Richard Shrauner, L0404 Walla Walla — WYOMING L0279 Cheyenne Jonathan Haberkorn

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In Memoriam of Those Who Have Served

Local Name ...... Local Name ...... State Local Name ...... Local Name ...... State Local Name ...... Local Name ...... State F0007 William Lee ...... West Point ...... NY L0140 Charles Beasley ...... Nashville ...... TN L0867 Adrian Kelly ...... Winnipeg ...... MB I0024 William Whitney ...... Hanford ...... WA L0140 David Gann ...... Nashville ...... TN L0867 Ralph Lucas ...... Winnipeg ...... MB L0002 John Alaniz ...... Chicago ...... IL L0140 Kenneth Merrill ...... Nashville ...... TN L0867 Lars Wass ...... Winnipeg ...... MB L0002 Stephen Amelianovich Chicago ...... IL L0157 Kelly Hilburn ...... Oklahoma City ...... OK L0964 Thomas Herz ...... Baltimore Fire Officers Association ..MD L0002 Einar Andersen ...... Chicago ...... IL L0157 Thomas Morrow ...... Oklahoma City ...... OK L0964 Robert McCleary ...... Baltimore Fire Officers Association ..MD L0002 Robert Cahill ...... Chicago ...... IL L0157 Anthony Parker ...... Oklahoma City ...... OK L0964 Frank Rainey ...... Baltimore Fire Officers Association ..MD L0002 Reno Corradin ...... Chicago ...... IL L0157 Carl Slayton ...... Oklahoma City ...... OK L1132 Jeffrey Beckner ...... Roanoke ...... VA L0002 Robert Delaney ...... Chicago ...... IL L0162 Gilles Crete ...... Ottawa ...... ON L1311 Hubert Harrison ...... Baltimore County ...... MD L0002 Cosimo Digiovani ...... Chicago ...... IL L0215 Richard Brurok ...... Milwaukee ...... WI L1348 Randall Brown ...... Muncie ...... IN L0002 John Eck ...... Chicago ...... IL L0215 Louis Edwards ...... Milwaukee ...... WI L1348 Jan Druckemiller ...... Muncie ...... IN L0002 Brian Finn ...... Chicago ...... IL L0215 Rich Kraft ...... Milwaukee ...... WI L1348 John Hellis ...... Muncie ...... IN L0002 Richard Hanrahan ...... Chicago ...... IL L0215 Clarence Polaske ...... Milwaukee ...... WI L1348 Robert Lucas ...... Muncie ...... IN L0002 Leroy Hansch ...... Chicago ...... IL L0215 Nick Vasiljevich ...... Milwaukee ...... WI L1348 Roy Patterson ...... Muncie ...... IN L0002 Kenneth Kosmoski .....Chicago ...... IL L0255 Blue Falconer ...... Calgary ...... AB L1348 Melvin Wilson ...... Muncie ...... IN L0002 Lawrence Matkaitis ....Chicago ...... IL L0287 Richard Evans ...... Long Beach ...... NY L1403 Hector Muntaneer ...... Metropolitan Dade County ...... FL L0002 James Murphy ...... Chicago ...... IL L0317 Robert Griffith ...... Charleston ...... WV L1403 Robert Patton ...... Metropolitan Dade County ...... FL L0002 Michael Murphy ...... Chicago ...... IL L0317 Matthew Jackson ...... Charleston ...... WV L1408 David Stout ...... Richmond ...... IN L0002 Thomas O’Donnell .....Chicago ...... IL L0399 Vincent Feher ...... Beaumont ...... TX L1463 Kazuyoshi Aoki ...... Hawaiian Islands ...... HI L0002 Richard O’Toole ...... Chicago ...... IL L0410 Robert Johnson ...... New Albany ...... IN L1463 Robert Arakaki ...... Hawaiian Islands ...... HI L0002 Dwayne Redmond ...... Chicago ...... IL L0410 David Owen ...... New Albany ...... IN L1463 Christian Ellis ...... Hawaiian Islands ...... HI L0002 Robert Reilly ...... Chicago ...... IL L0416 Richard Burnicle ...... Indianapolis ...... IN L1463 Eldon Manke ...... Hawaiian Islands ...... HI L0002 Edward Rothas ...... Chicago ...... IL L0416 Michael Fitzgerald ...... Indianapolis ...... IN L1492 William Jennings ...... Dekalb County ...... GA L0002 Charles Smith ...... Chicago ...... IL L0416 George Greenwalt ...... Indianapolis ...... IN L1492 Michael McLean ...... Dekalb County ...... GA L0002 Robert Stellmack ...... Chicago ...... IL L0416 Haldene Jackson ...... Indianapolis ...... IN L1505 Kelly Marion ...... Flagstaff ...... AZ L0002 John Welcome ...... Chicago ...... IL L0416 Edward Johnson ...... Indianapolis ...... IN L1510 Lon Morris ...... Fire Fighters Of Miami Beach ...... FL L0022 Bruce Bowman ...... Philadelphia ...... PA L0416 Thomas Stipp ...... Indianapolis ...... IN L1510 Robin Vietinghoff ...... Fire Fighters Of Miami Beach ...... FL L0022 John Cleary ...... Philadelphia ...... PA L0416 Daniel Thompson ...... Indianapolis ...... IN L1522 Angelo Dipollina ...... New London ...... CT L0022 Henry Doyle ...... Philadelphia ...... PA L0452 Arnie Empter ...... Vancouver ...... WA L1568 Orville Dempsey ...... Henrico County ...... VA L0022 Eugene Falcone ...... Philadelphia ...... PA L0452 Arwin Hoxworth ...... Vancouver ...... WA L1579 Thomas Rufini ...... Manchester ...... CT L0022 Theodore Hairston .....Philadelphia ...... PA L0452 Bob McRae ...... Vancouver ...... WA L1784 Charles Anderson ...... Memphis ...... TN L0022 Kenneth Kershes ...... Philadelphia ...... PA L0481 Edgar Wilson ...... Welland ...... ON L1784 Thomas Blumer ...... Memphis ...... TN L0022 Peter King ...... Philadelphia ...... PA L0522 Louis Arcuri ...... Sacramento ...... CA L1784 Robert Bynum ...... Memphis ...... TN L0022 Michael Lawson ...... Philadelphia ...... PA L0628 Robert Vaccarino ...... Yonkers Mutual Aid Association ...... NY L1784 Bobby Frasier ...... Memphis ...... TN L0022 Joseph McCool ...... Philadelphia ...... PA L0632 Gerald Burtchaell ...... New Orleans ...... LA L1784 Donny Gibbs ...... Memphis ...... TN L0022 Richard Moore ...... Philadelphia ...... PA L0632 Patrick Flanagan ...... New Orleans ...... LA L1784 Mathew Harwood ...... Memphis ...... TN L0022 Bobby Oxendine ...... Philadelphia ...... PA L0632 Andrew Lambert ...... New Orleans ...... LA L1784 Tina Mathenia ...... Memphis ...... TN L0022 Edward Russell ...... Philadelphia ...... PA L0632 David Suddeth ...... New Orleans ...... LA L1784 Brent McKinness ...... Memphis ...... TN L0022 Michael Stroback ...... Philadelphia ...... PA L0632 William Ziegler ...... New Orleans ...... LA L1784 Cito Pellegra ...... Memphis ...... TN L0022 Anthony Tercha ...... Philadelphia ...... PA L0718 Henry Cullen ...... Boston ...... MA L1784 Charles Phillips ...... Memphis ...... TN L0022 Rudel Wilson ...... Philadelphia ...... PA L0718 Harold Devlin ...... Boston ...... MA L1784 Noble Preston ...... Memphis ...... TN L0022 James Wright ...... Philadelphia ...... PA L0718 James Finn ...... Boston ...... MA L1851 Dan Danitis ...... Ware ...... MA L0034 Clarence Barr ...... Little Rock ...... AR L0718 Martin Glynn ...... Boston ...... MA L1908 Paul Lopez ...... Clark County ...... NV L0034 Jerry Collie ...... Little Rock ...... AR L0718 Joseph Nee ...... Boston ...... MA L2007 Joseph Dale ...... Albany ...... NY L0036 Robert Ellerbe ...... Washington ...... DC L0718 Daniel Parma ...... Boston ...... MA L2157 George Asbell ...... Gainesville ...... FL L0036 William Heflin ...... Washington ...... DC L0718 William Shea ...... Boston ...... MA L2157 Donald Tyson ...... Gainesville ...... FL L0036 Thomas Keelan ...... Washington ...... DC L0734 John Benzinger ...... Baltimore ...... MD L2664 Kyle Jameson ...... Hampton ...... NH L0036 George Leahy ...... Washington ...... DC L0734 Charles Davis ...... Baltimore ...... MD L2665 Andrew Franklin ...... Eastern Missouri ...... MO L0042 Gerald Grace ...... Kansas City ...... MO L0734 Robert Dillard ...... Baltimore ...... MD L2665 Sean McMullin ...... Eastern Missouri ...... MO L0042 Robert Richardson .....Kansas City ...... MO L0734 Rich Jean ...... Baltimore ...... MD L2782 Donald Wagner ...... Fort Nelson ...... BC L0067 James Zwayer ...... Columbus ...... OH L0734 Norman Koehler ...... Baltimore ...... MD L2917 William Tate ...... Jacksonville ...... TX L0073 Grant Berger ...... Saint Louis ...... MO L0734 Robert Nitz ...... Baltimore ...... MD L3080 Matt Boyer ...... Metro-Broward ...... FL L0073 Vincent Dickherber .....Saint Louis ...... MO L0734 Ernest Trimper ...... Baltimore ...... MD L3158 Mike Urenda ...... Destin ...... FL L0073 James Duggan ...... Saint Louis ...... MO L0734 Albert Waddill ...... Baltimore ...... MD L3512 Doug Anderle ...... Gainesville ...... TX L0073 Donald Dunard ...... Saint Louis ...... MO L0734 George Webb ...... Baltimore ...... MD L3574 David Case ...... Volusia County ...... FL L0073 Donna Karcher ...... Saint Louis ...... MO L0740 Carlisle Goodine ...... Portland ...... ME L3621 Alfred Smith ...... Richmond ...... KY L0073 Bobby Patterson ...... Saint Louis ...... MO L0740 Peter Pompeo ...... Portland ...... ME L3722 Shawn Bean ...... Enid ...... OK L0073 William Rahm ...... Saint Louis ...... MO L0809 Robert Lighter ...... Pasadena ...... CA L4546 Robert Chatel ...... Pelham ...... NH L0073 William Traylor ...... Saint Louis ...... MO L0858 Robert Nickerson ...... Denver ...... CO L4756 Jason Adams ...... Sherwood ...... AR L0083 Bradley Ginter ...... Topeka ...... KS L0867 Walter Buchanan ...... Winnipeg ...... MB L4784 Spencer Chauvin ...... St. John Parish ...... LA L0122 James Costner ...... Jacksonville ...... FL L0867 Robert Coates ...... Winnipeg ...... MB L0124 Glen Brower ...... Fort Wayne ...... IN L0867 J. Murray Davidson ....Winnipeg ...... MB

46 NEVER FORGET LAST ALARM We Honor Those Who Lost Their Lives in the Line of Duty

L2881 ..Patrick L. Carpenter ...... Cal Fire – Sacramento, CA ..5/11/88 L3888 ..Michael Kane ...... Toronto, ON ...... 3/21/16

L2194 ..Lawrence C. Lavigueur ...... Southbridge, MA ...... 3/31/95 L2881 ..Arthur M. Kruckman ...... Cal Fire – Sacramento, CA ..4/18/16

L113 ....Walter Churchmack ...... Toronto, ON ...... 3/17/01 L1212 ..William A. Dawson ...... Mississauga, ON ...... 6/5/16

L2881 ..Robert A. Lee ...... Cal Fire – Sacramento, CA ....6/1/02 L1212 ..Gerald J. Lacasse ...... Mississauga, ON ...... 7/31/16

L2881 ..Donald G. Cooper ...... Cal Fire – Sacramento, CA 10/26/04 L3888 ..Gino De Amicis ...... Toronto, ON ...... 8/11/16

L2881 ..Darwin J. Vargas ...... Cal Fire – Sacramento, CA ....8/5/06 L905 ....Don Baxter, Sr...... Nanaimo, BC ...... 8/16/16

L2881 ..John R. Young ...... Cal Fire – Sacramento, CA ..3/23/08 I-24 ...... William S. Whitney ...... Hanford, WA ...... 8/25/16

L2315 ..Brian C. Nolte ...... Davie, FL ...... 2/24/10 L849 ....Gilles G. Racine ...... Cornwall, ON ...... 9/2/16

L2881 ..David G. Lezchuk ...... Cal Fire – Sacramento, CA ..5/11/11 F-65 ....Donald F. Martin ...... Halifax, NS ...... 9/5/16

L3393 ..Jonathan M. Sapp ...... Cabarrus Co., NC ...... 2/26/13 L2346 ..Frederick C. Lewis, Jr...... Centerville-Osterville, MA ...... 9/8/16

L2917 ..Ronald K. McKinney ...... Jacksonville, TX ...... 11/17/14 L52 ...... Eric C. Gustafson ...... Meridian, MS ...... 9/9/16

L803 ....Mel McEachen ...... Brandon, MB ...... 12/31/14 L209 ....Bob D. McGill ...... Edmonton, AB ...... 9/17/16

L1137 ..Charles Bud Exton ...... Etobicoke, ON ...... 1/10/15 L1364 ..Ryan Osler ...... Ventura Co., CA ...... 9/21/16

L2881 ..Larry E. Grafft ...... Cal Fire – Sacramento, CA ....3/9/15 L1590 ..Jerry W. Fickes, Jr...... Wilmington, DE ...... 9/24/16

L1212 ..Robert W. Bell ...... Mississauga, ON ...... 4/9/15 L1590 ..Christopher M. Leach ...... Wilmington, DE ...... 9/24/16

L18 ...... William A. Hunter ...... Vancouver, BC ...... 9/19/15 L854 ....Michael J. Fahy ...... UFOA-New York, NY ...... 9/27/16

L2881 ..Barry A. Rezac ...... Cal Fire – Sacramento, CA ..9/27/15 L1607 ..Yaphet K. Miller ...... North Las Vegas, NV ...... 10/5/16

L752 ....William F. Parker ...... North York, ON ...... 12/2/15 L660 ....Barbara Beam ...... Charlotte, NC ...... 10/14/16

L209 ....Gerald A. Simpson ...... Edmonton, AB ...... 12/16/15 L2201 ..David Dangerfield ...... Indian River Co., FL ...... 10/15/16

L752 ....George Powell ...... North York, ON ...... 1/15/16 L628 ....John M. Rodriguez ...... Yonkers, NY ...... 10/19/16

L2881 ..Johnny M. Chun ...... Cal Fire – Sacramento, CA ....2/1/16 L4449 ..Dennis teBoekhorst ...... Maple Ridge, BC ...... 10/26/16

L765 ....Daniel J. Falcone ...... Fort Lauderdale, FL ...... 3/10/16

NOTE: Children of IAFF members killed in the line of duty are eligible to receive the W.H."Howie" McClennan scholarship, which provides financial assistance to attend a university accredited college or other institution of higher learning For more information contact the IAFF Department of Education at (202) 824-1533.

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