"News" in the world of Public Safety...
If you have any "news" to add email dennis@offdutynetwork.com
July 2007
July 28
Retired Forsyth County Fire Chief Norris Bennett passed away yesterday morning on vacation in Alaska. Funeral details will be advised as soon as they come out. Chief Bennett was in the fire service for many years and retired almost 5 years ago. Please keep the Bennett family in your thoughts and prayers.
July 27
Fir Doitean, The Irish Professional Firefighters of WNY, are raffling off a 2008 Road King Classic. Tickets are only $20 and we are selling 2500. The raffle is to benefit a scholarship fund we have started in our founder’s name, Lt William Lewis. He passed away last year from duty related cancer. It will be held September 8th and The Goin' South Irish Feis. If you need more info, or for tickets, contact Dennis Mann @ 716-713-8925, or email me @ denmann1964@yahoo.com.
July 16
Please see the attachment for the front and back designs for the fallen firefighters in Charleston, S.C. T-shirt. Proceeds are going to the SC Fallen Firefighter Memorial in Columbia, S.C. and the National Fallen Firefighters Foundation , earmarked for travel expenses to the memorial service for the family members next October (08) in Emmitsburg MD. Please feel free to forward or post this listing.
Thank you , Peter Rogers
I purchased several of these shirts and they are good quality. DOB
July 13
This morning 26 year old Michael Neuman (City of Riverdale FD) was killed in a motorcycle accident on his way home from shift this morning on Satellite Blvd around 0800. Gwinnett County Fire Dept was the first on location and to find serious injuries. He succumbed to his injuries a short time later.
Please keep Firefighter Neuman’s family and the Riverdale Fire Dept in your thoughts and prayers at this horrible time.
July 12
Most of the Charleston firefighters who died in the June 18 Super Sofa Store fire did not leave behind a will....and the problems and complications that situation has created are outlined in this article:
http://www.charlest
The NFFF has established a Charleston Peer Support Fund that will be used exclusively to help the survivors of the nine fallen firefighters, the department members, their families, and other responders get access to immediate and long-term peer support programs and behavioral health care. NFFF Teams to support this effort have been in place, in Charleston, since the fire. Those wishing to donate should designate and send to:
National Fallen Firefighters Foundation
Donations for Charleston Peer
Support
P.O. Drawer 498
Emmitsburg, MD 21727
July 10
Members of Metro Atlanta Fire Departments have put together a Lacrosse team. Lacrosse is a fun, fast moving, physical, team sport similar to hockey.
The team was organized by Lt. Chris Sobieski (Cobb County FD) and is being coached by Chief Byers (Atlanta FD). Marietta FD, Gwinnett FD and Alpharetta FD are also represented.
We are practicing on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 8am-10am at Al Bishop softball complex off County Services Pkwy in Marietta. Most of the participants have never played before, so all fire fighters are welcome, experienced or not. Since we have so many beginners, we hare practicing through the summer and will begin playing games in the fall. For more information, please contact Lt. Chris Sobieski at 770-337-1351.
July 8
Fund
Raiser for Butts County Firefighter/
Please pass this on; we need as many people to come out as we can.
Tim Reynolds, FF/EMT @ Butts County FD, is in the hospital. Tim has been diagnosed with double pneumonia. He is intubated now and being kept sedated. He is at Henry Medical Center in Stockbridge. Please keep Tim and his family in your prayers. I will try to keep everyone updated. Some of you may remember Tim from Monroe County Fire Dept. or as an adjunct instructor at the GA Fire Academy.
We are currently working on a fund raiser to be held at the Butts County Recreation Dept. next Saturday from 11am-4pm, July the 14th. Tim is a Father of 4, and his wife, Melissa is a stay at home Mom, so he is the sole provider for his family at this time. Please come out and help us!!!
Thanks Capt. B. Forrest (Butts Co Fire)
Please repost and Past the word along
"Some men are born brothers. Others, earn it."