The new educational event will take place on February 11-13, 2022, featuring more than 90 vendors and 15 fire/EMS seminars, hosted by NYSAFC and the Islip Town Fire & EMS Museum & Education Center. Daily registration is only $20, and parking is free.

If you serve in a volunteer or combination department, the IAFC is seeking your input. Please consider taking at 10-minute survey, to be completed by Friday, February 4, 2022. 

The NYS Fire Service Alliance has released this year's Issues of United Concern legislative agenda.

Legislation regulates chemicals in upholstered furniture, mattresses, and electronic enclosures.

The law will ensure that volunteer firefighters who suffer a vascular rupture are covered by the volunteer firefighters' benefits law.

Assistant Chief William “Billy” Steinberg of the Forestburgh Fire Department (Sullivan County) died while fighting a fire on January 15.

A fire in a Bronx high rise killed 17 people and injured dozens on January 9.

Firefighters faced a perfect storm of conflagration as a smoky blaze tore through a Bronx apartment building, killing 17 people including eight children, and by all accounts did all they possibly could.

Nine months after the Evergreen Court Home for Adults complex burned and collapsed, investigators have not released conclusions as to what caused the blaze, in which Firefighter Jared Lloyd and resident Oliver Hueston were killed.

In rural Sackets Harbor, N.Y., where COVID-19 affected the local volunteer ambulance service's ability to respond to calls, local high school students took the required training and picked up the slack.

A state appeals court has decided that public safety is the key issue in the ongoing fight over how many firefighters have to be on duty in the city of Ogdensburg.

FDNY Chief of Department Thomas Richardson, who got his start as a Deer Park firefighter, retired earlier this month after 41 years of service.

Chief Pat Brady officially retired from the Lockport Fire Department on December 30.

Dennis Smith, the author of "Report from Engine Co. 82" and a retired FDNY firefighter, started Firehouse in 1976 after seeing a need for a magazine focused on firefighters.

New EMS Educational Standards Published; Fatigue Risk Analyzer Released; Governor Hochul Proposes EMS Modernization.

NYSAFC has teamed up with Farmers Insurance and Marshall & Sterling to offer a special insurance program for association members. Special insurance prices are available for first responders.

The Chief Fred Singer Fire Educator of the Year Award recognizes outstanding effort in fire service training and education; the James Wright Public Education Award acknowledges excellence in fire/injury prevention and fire/life safety education; the New York State Fire Chief of the Year Awards honor a volunteer and a career fire chief for exemplary leadership.

Unattended cooking was the leading cause of cooking fires and casualties.

Former Warren County Emergency Services Director and Fire Coordinator Brian LaFlure retired in 2021.

View the NYSAFC calendar of events.