The National Fallen Firefighters Foundation, in
association with Fireman's Fund Insurance Company, announces a new grant
program focused on providing firefighters with life-saving equipment.
While overall firefighter line-of-duty deaths (LODDs) have
been reduced drastically in recent decades through education and
enforcement of safety policies, completely preventable traffic fatalities
continue to occur. That's why Dr. Burton A. Clark at the U.S. Fire
Administration has a mission to change fire service seat belt culture.
When a car slammed into a tractor trailer stopped on a
stretch of I-95 in the town of Holly Hill, just north of Daytona Beach, the
damage was so great that the couple trapped inside had to be cut out. By
good fortune, the Holly Hill Fire Department had just received a set of
rescue and extrication equipment through a Fireman's Fund HeritageSM grant.
