Firefighter Life Safety Initiatives Program

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Firefighter Life Safety Initiatives Program
EVERYONE GOES HOME
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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 Firemens Fund Insurance.

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The Goal

• Five Years
• 25 Reduction
• Ten Years
• 50 Reduction

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NFFF Firefighter Life Safety Initiatives Program
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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

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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

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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

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The Process
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Training Packages

• Identify what training packages need to
  contain
• Identify what exists and what must be developed
• Collect and organize what exists
• Develop what doesnt
• Deploy

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Website

• Identify Host
• Develop Site
• Launch Site
• Maintain Site
• Revise as needed

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Mini Summits

• Identify venues
• Select Facilitators
• Plan program
• Deliver the program
• Generate a report

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Demonstration Project

• Identify Demonstration Candidates
• Provide Support
• Incubate Best Practices
• Deploy Best Practices

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Research Centers

• Identify Research Centers
• Develop working relationship

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Firefighter Life Safety Initiatives Program

• PROGRESS TO DATE

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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

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Training Packages

• Partnered with North American Fire Training
  Directors National Fire Academy Program
  Development Specialists
• Facilitated peer review by EAB

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Training Packages

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

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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

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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
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NEWSLETTER

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

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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.

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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)

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DEMONSTRATION PROJECTS

• Developed The Courage to Be SafeSo 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.

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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.

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DEMONSTRATION PROJECTS

• Pennsylvania
• Montgomery County, Maryland
• Savannah, Georgia
• Florida Chiefs
• New Jersey

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SEAL OF EXCELLENCE

• Developed the Seal of Excellence Program to
  recognize departments with best Line of Duty
  Prevention practices

SEAL OF EXCELLENCE
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How Can You Help ?

• Awareness
• Advocacy
• Implementation
• Sharing
• Best Practices
• Myth Busters
• News Articles
• Instructor Tool Box

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National Fallen Firefighters Foundations
Firefighter Life Safety Initiatives Program

• THANK YOU !