Announcements

Fire & Life – The Road Show

As infrastructure renovations begin at the New York State Fire Academy, the 49th Annual Fire & Life Safety Educators’ Training hits the road with the all new ‘Road Show’. The ‘Road Show’ will take place at four departments over three days.

Register online for the 49th Annual Fire & Life Safety Educators’ Training at:
https://www.dhses.ny.gov/upcoming-events

Dates:

April 27, 2024
East Greenbush Fire Department (In-Person Event)
68 Phillips Road, Rensselaer, NY 12144 Hagerman Fire Department (Virtual Event)
510 Oakdale Ave, East Patchogue, NY 11772 May 4, 2024
Erie County Fire Training Academy
3359 Broadway, Buffalo, NY 14227 May 10, 2024
East Syracuse Fire Department
204 North Center Street, East Syracuse, NY 13057

NY-SAFE Treasurer Rick Nemier Awarded FASNY Fire Safety Educator of the Year Award

NY-SAFE Treasurer Rick Nemier was awarded FASNY Fire Safety Educator of The Year Award. Rick has a huge dedication to the fire education service, often presenting to the kids at the Nedrow School District.

Thank you Rick Nemier for the outstanding job and dedication to your community!

NY-SAFE Continues the Push of EDITH

The New York State Association Fire Safety Educators continues their push of Exit Drills In The Home (EDITH)

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Since 1985, the New York State Association Fire Safety Educators have been pushing their EDITH program. Their message is simple, practice exit drills in the home. Their program teaches students the importance of exit drills and exit plans.

Want to teach EDITH in your school or home? Click here

The New York State Fire Service Council

DATE:              TUESDAY, JANUARY 14^TH, 2020
TIME                10:00 A.M.
LOCATION      Town of Colonie Fire Training Facility, upper classroom

As a valuable contributor you are being invited to the next Fire Service Council meeting.  If you have dates and locations of upcoming events it would be very helpful to the Secretary if you submitted them in writing on the day of the meeting, it’s very difficult to capture the accurate information you wish to convey during the meeting.

If you have an idea for a guest speaker or a particular topic that needs to be focused upon please submit a request in writing so that it can be scheduled and the proper amount of time can be allocated during the meeting.  Our goal is cooperation, coordination and communication.

Our Additional Responsibility for 2020 will be the following:

As a function of the discussions related to “Creating an Evolving Fire Service Staffing Model”, we will be discussing several topics and forming sub-committees as an expanded role of the Fire Service Council.  This initiative was born out of several years of discussion related to the challenges being encountered by the volunteer and career fire service models in our State.  The earliest analysis of this problem began in 1987 with a white paper entitled The Future of the Fire Service in New York State under the auspices of Frank Stefanelli, Jim King and O. Jerry Clark.  Most recently a series of meetings was held with the fire service organizations and OFPC which was called “Moving Forward” and more recently a series of facilitated discussions lead by Chief Marc Bashoor and Chief John Buckman which took us beyond recruitment and retention.  One thing we all agree on is that we have a challenge, called adequate staffing, and we must take steps to provide guidance to fire departments across the state to address the problem.  At the most recent meeting of the organization’s representatives it was suggested that since almost all the representatives in the room also attended the Fire Council and I was named group facilitator it would be a wise use of time to continue the discussion in coordination with the Council meetings which also included other key members such as OFPC and divine guidance from members of the Chaplains Association.

Thank you we look forward to seeing you or your representative.

Tom Rinaldi, Chairman

Click here to download the meeting minutes