CFSI National Fire and Emergency Services Dinner
2016 Paul S. Sarbanes Award presented to FDSOA
The 2016 Senator Paul S. Sarbanes Award for Fire Service Safety Leadership was presented to the Fire Department Safety Officers Association on Thursday, May 5th, at the Congressional Fire Service Institute’s 28th annual National Fire and Emergency Services Dinner in Washington, D.C.
In presenting the award, Jim Estepp, CFSI board member, said, “FDSOA is being recognized for its work to promote safety standards and practices in the fire, rescue, and emergency services community.” Estepp noted the 28 years of FDSOA’s Apparatus Specification and Maintenance Symposium that has brought together manufacturers, fire officers, and emergency vehicle technicians and contributed to significant improvements in apparatus safety performance.
Estepp added, “Under new management and leadership, FDSOA is proactive in reaching out to educate, train and certify safety officers across North America. They are doing so by forming and strengthening partnerships with organizations that share in a common pursuit of firefighter health and safety. And they are doing so by addressing many of the 16 Life Safety Initiatives developed over ten years ago by the national fire service organizations.”
In accepting the Sarbanes award, FDSOA Chairman Richard Maddox thanked State Farm, VFIS, and NFFF for the prestigious award and added, “Through the hard work and dedication of past and present leadership of the FDSOA and through its many partnerships, we are recommitted to our core mission of educating and providing essential training the safety officers assigned to protect their brother and sister firefighters every day in our nation’s emergency situations.”
For more information regarding the FDSOA, contact Rich Marinucci, Executive Director, Ph: 248.880.1864 or visit: www.fdsoa.org.