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The National Association of Emergency Medical Technicians (NAEMT) and EMS World have announced the 2021recipients of the National EMS Awards of Excellence, including two IAFF members: Tidewater Federal Fire Fighters (VA) Local F-25 member Jeremy McElroy and St. Petersburg, FL Local 747 member Derek Perez-Piris.

The U.S. federal government recently established a mandate that all federal employees must become vaccinated or be subject to enhanced testing and distancing protocols.

The IAFF’s political action efforts in Canada have led to two major advances in fire fighter safety.

The Helping Emergency Responders Overcome Act (HERO) Act of 2021, S 2700, has been reintroduced in the U.S. Senate. The bipartisan bill, sponsored by Senators Jacky Rosen (D-NV) and Deb Fischer (R-NE), serves as companion legislation to HR 1480 in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Hundreds of IAFF members continue to fight a Northern California wildfire, now the second-largest wildfire in state history. Known as the Dixie fire, it has burned more than 482,000 acres and more than 800 structures. Only the August Complex Fire of August 2020, which consumed more than 1 million acres, was bigger.

Mecklenburg County, NC Local 5326 is one of the newest IAFF affiliates to organize in the southeastern United States. Mecklenburg County is in the southwestern part of the state and is the second-most populated county in the state.

Fire fighters in Burnaby, British Columbia, are welcoming news that the Canadian government will contribute $30 million to support operational costs for a new fire station in the fast-growing city.

The IAFF is saddened to learn United Emergency Medical Professionals of Arizona Local I-60 member Jacob Dindinger, 20, has died. Dindinger was one of three IAFF members who sustained gunshot wounds during a multiple-scene shooting incident in Tuscon, Arizona.

Below is important information regarding the cancellation of the 2021 John P. Redmond Symposium/Dominick F. Barbera EMS Conference and Fallen Fire Fighter Memorial due to the spike in COVID cases from the Delta variant and its ability to break through the vaccinated population.