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2025-2026 NFFF Scholarships
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Empowering Your Dreams: Apply for 2025-2026 NFFF Scholarship
January 1, 2025
Memorial Monday
Memorial Monday
Memorial Monday — Tragedy in Coffeyville: Firefighters Lost in Christmas Decoration Fire
December 23, 2024
Senator Paul S. Sarbanes Fire Service Safety Leadership Award
Sarbanes Award
Two Fire Departments Selected for the Senator Paul S. Sarbanes Fire Service Safety Leadership Award
December 17, 2024
Tree Lighting
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A Heartbeat of Comfort: Moments of Connection at the NFFF Christmas Tree Lighting
December 10, 2024
2024 - 2025 scholarship recipients
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Empowering Futures: Announcing the 2024-2025 Scholarship Program Recipients

This year’s 59 scholarship recipients were awarded $538,893 – bringing the total scholarships awarded since 1997 to nearly $7 million.
November 12, 2024
First Responders Day 2024 - Kidneys for First Responders
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Heroes Helping Heroes

It's National First Responders Day. On this special day, we recognize paramedics, EMTs, firefighters, police officers, 911 operators, and countless other first responders for their ...
October 28, 2024
Memorial Monday
Memorial Monday

Memorial Monday — Remembering Acting Battalion Chief George A. Jacques and Firefighter Frederick W. Herrmann

Acting Battalion Chief George A. Jacques and Firefighter Frederick W. Herrmann died of asphyxiation on October 28, 1938 after fighting a basement fire the night ...
October 28, 2024
Sara Jahnke Receives NFFF’s Glatfelter Distinguished Service Award
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Firefighter Health Researcher Sara Jahnke Receives NFFF’s Glatfelter Distinguished Service Award

Dr. Jahnke was presented with the Glatfelter Award by Chair Markel during the recent Science to the Station NERDSTOCK 2024 powered by FRCE (First Responder ...
October 17, 2024
2024 U.S. Fire Administrator’s Summit on Fire Prevention and Control
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2024 U.S. Fire Administrator’s Summit on Fire Prevention and Control

Watch the 2024 U.S. Fire Administrator’s Summit on Fire Prevention and Control which took place on Tuesday, October 8, 2024.
October 7, 2024
Memorial Monday
Memorial Monday

Memorial Monday — Remembering Bossier City Firefighters and Water Department Workers Who Died in an Underground Sewer Lift Station

On September 3, 1963, a tragic accident at the Shady Grove Sewer Lift Station in Bossier City claimed the lives of two firefighters and two ...
September 30, 2024
Fire Hero Learning Network Interactive Case Story: Boyd Street
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Fire Hero Learning Network Interactive Case Story: Boyd Street

The National Fallen Firefighters Foundation’s Fire Hero Learning Network is producing a series of Interactive Case Stories that tell the inside stories of fire incidents ...
September 13, 2024
Honoring Our Heroes: New 9/11 Memorial Wall
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Honoring Our Heroes: New 9/11 Memorial Wall

Today, the National Fallen Firefighters Foundation (NFFF) launched the 9/11 Memorial Wall – an interactive space for website visitors to add personal notes of remembrance ...
September 10, 2024

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