Niagara County Volunteer Firefighter Recruit & Retention

02/22/2024

10/31/2023

Need tickets, give Mike a call, 716-796-8050

05/23/2023

Please help, and voice your support of our Home and tell Albany to vote NO.

Tomorrow (Wednesday, May 24), Assemblyman David Weprin (D-Queens) is bringing a bill he sponsors (A 7160/S 6269) to a vote in the Assembly Insurance Committee that would take funding currently allocated for the Firefighters’s home in Hudson and direct it to be paid to NYS Professional Firefighters Association.

The FASNY Firefighter's Home would lose $700,000 in funding under this proposal.

This is unacceptable and incredibly insulting to the brave men and women serving their communities in volunteer fire departments. The Firefighter’s Home was created in 1892 by volunteer fire organizations as a place for indigent firefighters as a refuge of last resort. It started as a working farm and eventually evolved into a skilled nursing facility. The Firefighter’s Home does not receive any Medicare/Medicaid money and it needs this funding.

Volunteer firefighters save our state billions of dollars annually all while putting their lives on the line to serve their communities, despite receiving none of the salary, health benefits, or retirement benefits that paid professional firefighters receive – and yet this proposal wants to steal money away from our Firefighter’s Home!

We need all FASNY members to help make sure that all members of the Assembly Insurance Committee hear our 80,000+ voices from across the state and vote no on this egregious money grab.

https://www.votervoice.net/NVFC/Campaigns/105490/Respond

04/07/2022

FASNY Niagara 5k Running Towards the Flame

Niagara 5k Running Towards the Flame Wendelville Fire Co Inc, Campbell Boulevard, North Tonawanda, NY, USA - Niagara 5k Running Toward the FlameWendelville Fire… - May 21, 2022

03/17/2022

FASNY needs your help to get EMS language in the final budget!

The ability for volunteer fire departments to bill for EMS services has been a top legislative priority of FASNY for years. Known as EMS Cost Recovery, it would allow volunteer fire departments to bill insurers for EMS services rendered to insured individuals.

Currently, departments in every other state are able to do this. New York is the only state that forces volunteer fire departments to absorb the cost directly. As volunteer fire departments answer almost 300,000 calls annually, they are missing out on more than $100 million each year.

Write your Assembly Member 👉 https://cqrcengage.com/fasny/app/write-a-letter?1&engagementId=514061

02/19/2022

April 23-24

01/07/2022

Save the Date

Coming April 23-24, fire departments across New York State will open their doors for the RecruitNY Weekend. The website will be loaded with recruitment resources that are made available for your next open house or community event, show your community the value of the volunteer fire service.

Bookmark RecruitNY now and stay tuned for a special incentive!

12/18/2021

Save the Date!

Each year, the FASNY Winter Games draws hundreds of volunteer firefighters and their departments from across the State for some competition and camaraderie. Taking place Feb. 11-13, 2022, the event is hosted by Greek Peak Mountain Resort in Cortland, N.Y. The Winter Games includes tubing, sled-pull, stokes basket carry, hose races, tug-of-war and broomball. You won't want to miss this bona fide FASNY tradition!

Learn more about the FASNY Winter Games here 👉 https://fasny.com/events/fasny-winter-games/