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Throughout October, affiliates across the United States and Canada promote Breast Cancer Awareness Month in their communities, and wearing pink T-shirts – while raising money for breast cancer research – has become a signature feature of these campaigns.

Years of hard work has paid off for members of Chattanooga, TN Local 820. The Chattanooga City Council on September 28 voted unanimously to approve Mayor Tim Kelly’s budget that includes a 24% raise for the vast majority of all Chattanooga City fire fighters.

The IAFF Financial Corporation (IAFF-FC) is excited to offer supplemental insurance to members and their immediate family members for cancer and critical illness.

Four Dallas, TX Local 58 fire fighters were among seven injured in an explosion September 29 at an apartment building in southern Dallas. All four fire fighters were transported to nearby Parkland hospital with two in critical condition.

Federal fire fighters stand to gain important new benefits and improved working conditions with the passage of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for Fiscal Year 2022.

Fire fighters in Canada’s Yukon Territory are welcoming news that their government is adding a number of cancers to those deemed occupational in fire fighters, including two cancers that will be the first included in presumptive legislation anywhere in Canada.

United Goodyear Fire Fighters (Arizona) Local 4005 and the Goodyear Fire Department are taking a proactive approach to preventing cancer among fire fighters.

Federal Fire Fighters of Hawaii Local F-263 and Hawaiian Islands Local 1463 members have a special way of remembering the ultimate sacrifice made by the 343 members of the Uniformed Firefighters Association (UFA) Local 94 and the Unformed Fire Officers Association (UFOA) on 9/11.

Every year on September 11, the International Association of Fire Fighters (IAFF) and its 324,000 members pause for somber reflection on that tragic day, now 20 years ago, that forever changed the world and the fire service.