Charlotte (NC) Fire Department, Fire Chief Pete Key and New Orleans (LA) Superintendent Timothy McDonnell placed a friendly wager on the recent Wildcard Playoff matchup between the cities’ beloved Panthers and Saints. As a result, Charlotte Fire Chief Key had the opportunity to install a New Orleans Saints smoke alarm.

As part of the wager, The Buff Project, a New York City-based fire safety organization and distributor of officially licensed NFL Team Identified Smoke alarms, is donating 50 NFL licensed team-branded smoke detectors per game to the fire departments to use in their fire safety outreach efforts. Also during the NFL playoffs, for every NFL team-identified smoke detector sold on their website, The Buff Project will donate smoke detector to that city’s fire department.

For further information about The Buff Project and to purchase a team-identified smoke detector, visit: www.thebuffproject.com.

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Cancer is killing firefighters. In the past decade, more firefighters have died from cancer than running into burning buildings, saving communities from hazardous waste spills, or protecting neighborhoods from active shooter situations.

The International Association of Fire Fighters (IAFF) is holding a national Cancer Summit focused on the latest science linking cancer and firefighting. Live from the summit in Lake Buena Vista, Florida, IAFF General President Harold Schaitberger speaks live Fire Engineering Editor in Chief Bobby Halton about the issue of cancer and the fire service. Watch the interview, which will take place Wednesday, January 30, 2018 at 4:30 p.m. Eastern, in the player above.

For more info, go to http://client.prod.iaff.org/#page=Cancer_Summit_2018.

The FDNY is no longer just a boy’s club. Two women will be sworn into top positions in the department at FDNY headquarters in Brooklyn Wednesday, a historic moment for the male-dominated agency. Laura Kavanagh will be named the department’s first deputy commissioner while Elizabeth Cascio — who has served for more than three decades — is the department’s chief of staff.
- PUB DATE: 1/31/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: New York Daily News

Bill Clayton, a wildland firefighting expert who saved countless lives and entire towns during a career that spanned 50 years, died Sunday at the age of 77 of natural causes at his home in Carlsbad. "He was a legend in the fire service," said lifelong friend and recently retired Cal Fire Battalion Chief Ray Chaney.
- PUB DATE: 1/31/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: San Diego Union-Tribune

A state Supreme Court judge ruled in the city’s favor to block arbitration over the “minimum manning” clause in its labor contract with the firefighters, which requires 15 firefighters must be on duty at all times. It’s been the main sticking point during the city’s 3½-year contract stalemate with the Watertown Professional Fire Fighters Association Local 191.
- PUB DATE: 1/31/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Watertown Daily Times