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Firefighter Life Safety Initiatives Program

Firefighter Life Safety Initiatives Program. EVERYONE GOES HOME. Firefighter Life Safety Initiatives Program.

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Firefighter Life Safety Initiatives Program

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  1. Firefighter Life Safety Initiatives Program EVERYONE GOES HOME

  2. Firefighter Life Safety Initiatives Program “The Firefighter Life Safety Initiatives program is made possible through the efforts of the National Fallen Firefighters Foundation with funding provided by the Department of Homeland Security, Assistance to Firefighters Grant and the generosity of Firemen’s Fund Insurance.”

  3. The Goal • Five Years • 25% Reduction • Ten Years • 50% Reduction

  4. NFFF Firefighter Life SafetyInitiatives Program

  5. The Beginning • Focus Group (FRI, August ‘03) • LODD Summit (Tampa, March ‘04) • Health and Fitness • Vehicle Operations • Structural Operations • Training and General Research • Wildland Operations • Fire Prevention

  6. The Program Goal The primary project goal is to deliver training resources necessary to enable fire departments to implement the 16 Firefighter Life Safety Initiatives. So Everyone Goes Home

  7. Program Tasks • Implement and advocate 16 Firefighter Life Safety Initiatives • Deliver “Training Packages” to 30,000 Fire Departments • Develop, launch, maintain website • Conduct Mini-Summits • Foster Development of Research Centers • Technology Transfer • Foster Demonstration Projects

  8. The Process

  9. Training Packages • Identify what “ training packages” need to contain • Identify what exists and what must be developed • Collect and organize what exists • Develop what doesn’t • Deploy

  10. Website • Identify Host • Develop Site • Launch Site • Maintain Site • Revise as needed

  11. Mini Summits • Identify venues • Select Facilitators • Plan program • Deliver the program • Generate a report

  12. Demonstration Project • Identify Demonstration Candidates • Provide Support • Incubate Best Practices • Deploy Best Practices

  13. Research Centers • Identify Research Centers • Develop working relationship

  14. Firefighter Life Safety Initiatives Program • PROGRESS TO DATE

  15. Training Packages • Developed and distributed an “Intent to Provide Information or Assistance” form to over 50 known and potential partners of the NFFF. • Used to gather data from partners on resources or assistance available

  16. Training Packages • Partnered with North American Fire Training Directors & National Fire Academy Program Development Specialists • Facilitated peer review byEAB

  17. Training Packages Produced an American Heat segment on the overview of the 16 initiatives that will be distributed nationally in November.

  18. TRAINING PACKAGES • Lesson Plans Developed by MFRI • Five Modules Being Development • Health & Wellness • Safe Vehicle Operations & Scene Safety • Situational Awareness/Recognizing Hazards • Self-Assessment • Fire Protection Awareness

  19. WEBSITE • Developed and Deployed the “Everyone Goes Home” Website • The July web report indicated over 18,000 page views • Instructors Tool Box • Resources www.everyonegoeshome.com

  20. NEWSLETTER • Compiled and distributed an electronic monthly newsletter • containing links to many other sources of related information

  21. RESEARCH CENTERS • Funded Research Centers at University of Maryland and Oklahoma State University. OSU conducting an assessment of fire service behavior and culture and methods to effect positive change in response to initiative to reduce LODD MFRI research is directed toward applied science, particularly fire department operations, technology development and applications.

  22. MINI SUMMITS • Conducted three mini summits and a forum in conjunction with major fire conferences • San Diego-FireHouse World • Indianapolis-FDIC • Baltimore-FireHouse Expo • Denver – IAFC FRI (forum)

  23. DEMONSTRATION PROJECTS • Developed – “The Courage to Be Safe…So Everyone Goes Home” program • Hard hitting program excerpts of the presentation made at the FDIC by Reverend Smith, survivor of Paul Smith, firefighter who in died in the line of duty in 1989.

  24. OUTREACH • Developed a Speakers Bureau • Delivered presentations at major venues and fire department conventions • Produced “LODD, The Untold Story of the Survivors” presented at FDIC and Maryland Fire Convention to audience of nearly 2,000.

  25. DEMONSTRATION PROJECTS • Pennsylvania • Montgomery County, Maryland • Savannah, Georgia • Florida Chiefs • New Jersey

  26. SEAL OF EXCELLENCE • Developed the Seal of Excellence Program to recognize departments with best Line of Duty Prevention practices SEAL OF EXCELLENCE

  27. How Can You Help? • Awareness • Advocacy • Implementation • Sharing • Best Practices • Myth Busters • News Articles • Instructor Tool Box

  28. National Fallen Firefighters Foundation’s Firefighter Life Safety Initiatives Program THANK YOU !

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