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Thanking General President Ed Kelly and calling the IAFF one of the country’s great organizations, President Joe Biden met with fire fighters Thursday near the Surfside condominium collapse.

On June 30, we remember the 19 Prescott, Arizona, fire fighters who died in the line of duty when they were overcome by a fast-moving wildfire near Yarnell. The 2013 loss was the greatest loss of fire fighter life in a single incident since September 11.

General President Edward Kelly, General Secretary-Treasurer Frank Lima, 12th District Vice President Walt Dix and other IAFF staff members are on the site of the Surfside condominium collapse near Miami, Florida.

The IAFF held its first virtual Alfred K. Whitehead Legislative Conference June 28. 

Bernalillo, NM Local 5334 is one of the IAFF’s newest affiliates in the 10th District.

he Public Safety Officer Medal of Valor program is currently accepting nominations for extraordinary acts of heroism and bravery on the part of our nation’s public safety officers.

General President Ed Kelly and General Secretary-Treasurer Frank Líma were on Capitol Hill June 23 with a clear message to lawmakers to repeal the cap on State and Local Tax (SALT) deductions.

The Center for Firefighter Injury Research and Safety Trends (FIRST) has announced the sixth annual Fire service Injury Research, Epidemiology, and Evaluation (FIRE) Fellowship.

When word got out in the Frankfort, Kentucky, community that someone had stolen eight-year-old Gideon Robinson’s water table from his backyard, Franklin County Local 3952 members were the first to help by building him a new one.

The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) Fire Fighter Fatality Investigation and Prevention Program has issued a Safety Advisory on “Preventing Freewheeling of Public Safety Portable Radio Volume-Power Knob” addressing an investigation of a line-of-duty death on January 5, 2020, when the nozzle fire fighter fell through a floor during a modular home fire and was killed by advancing fire.