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  • Mar 10, 2021

    Affiliates Make Progress on Post-Traumatic Stress Bills

    State affiliates are making strong gains toward enacting legislation providing presumptive protections and other benefits for fire fighters and paramedics confronting occupational post-traumatic stress and other behavioral health issues.
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  • Mar 5, 2021

    IAFF Officers Election Results

    As provided in the election rules, all ballots were to be at the office of our election vendor, Survey & Ballot System (SBS) by 6:00 p.m. (ET) today, Thursday March 4, 2021.
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  • Mar 4, 2021

    HERO Act Reintroduced in U.S. House of Representatives

    A bipartisan group of 31 legislators led by Representatives Ami Bera (D-CA) and Brian Fitzpatrick (R-PA) reintroduced the IAFF’s Helping Emergency Responders Overcome (HERO) Act, HR 1480, in the U.S. House of Representatives.
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  • Feb 26, 2021

    Joint Approach Minimizes Impacts of COVID-19 in St. John’s Local

    A quick and cooperative approach between St. John’s, NL Local 1075 and the employer prevented a serious shortfall of public safety resources in the city after a frontline fire fighter tested positive recently for the highly-contagious UK-variant of COVID-19 on February 17 following an off-duty exposure, immediately forcing 31 fire fighters with whom he’d been on shift at two of the city’s fire stations or were identified through contact tracing to be sent home in isolation.
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  • Feb 23, 2021

    Alberta Member in World’s Longest Hockey Game

    Andrew Buchanan, a fire fighter/paramedic with Strathcona County, AB Local 2461, is one of 40 brave people who laced up and endured frigid temperatures in February to participate in a fun and record-setting initiative while raising money for a great cause.
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