🎗️ IAFF affiliates – it's that time of year again to enter the #BreastCancerAwarenessMonth Pink T-Shirt Contest!

📅 Contest Opens: 10/1
⏰ Contest Deadline: 10/30
🗳️ Voting: 11/2-11/13

Winner gets FREE registration to the 2027 Strive for Excellence Summit in Las Vegas!

#OnThisDay in 1976, the #PSOB Act went into effect to provide death benefits to survivors of fallen #firefighters, law enforcement officers, and other first responders.

The federal initiative also provides disability benefits to those severely injured in the line of duty.

🖥️ Join #IAFF PEP Online this October and sharpen your skills as a union leader.

📅 Oct. 20 – Union Leadership
📅 Oct. 27 – Grievances

🕑 12:30–5 p.m. ET
💸 $75 per session

🔥 #OnThisDay in #IAFF history, the union hosted its first National Children’s Burn Camp in 1995 in Washington, D.C.

Funded by the IAFF Foundation, teen burn survivors and their fire fighter counselors from across the U.S. and Canada still attend the annual camp in September.

🚨 The call for action on lithium-ion battery safety is growing across Canada.

The @globeandmail Editorial Board is urging policymakers to close regulatory gaps as fires involving e-bikes, e-scooters, and other battery-powered devices become more common.

🙏 For 50 years, IAFF General Secretary-Treasurer Emeritus Thomas Miller built a legacy rooted in service, leadership, and a commitment to helping others.

Read more about Miller's life and the impact he had on generations of fire fighters. ⬇️

Tommy said he wanted to be remembered as someone who helped people. Across nearly five decades of service to our union, he did exactly that – improving the lives of countless fire fighters, retirees, and their families.

He went on to serve as president of the Professional Firefighters Union of Indiana, IAFF 8th District Vice President, and General Secretary-Treasurer from 2010 until his retirement in 2016.