Western New York Volunteer Firemen's Association

12/28/2025

Thank you to FASNY for all you do for the Volunteer Fire Service.

For more than 200 years, volunteers have been the backbone of providing fire and emergency response to communities across New York. FASNY’s role in that proud history has consistently been to advocate…

02/18/2025

02/18/2025

Don’t miss out on the 1st Annual Fire Training Symposium, May 16-18 at The Fort William Henry Hotel in Lake George!

Dive into hands-on, expert-led sessions on leadership, health & wellness, tactical strategies, and much more. All for just $125 — an unbeatable value! And kick things off with a fun Golf Scramble at Cronin’s Golf Course. See you there!

Learn more and register at https://fasny.com/training/1st-annual-firetraining-symposium/

02/18/2025

The Gerard J. Buckenmeyer Memorial FASNY Volunteer Scholarship is now open for applications! Twenty-five high school seniors will receive $1,500 to support their future education.

Apply by March 15 at fasny.com/scholarship. Spread the word!

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

04/21/2023

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Waiting more than twenty years for an increase to our tax credit and not letting us collect that credit in addition to our real property tax exemption is unacceptable. Please use the Voter Voice tool to send an email to your Senator and...

05/02/2022

Now you can watch our EMS Cost Recovery Seminar on demand. Our discussion includes input from FASNY General Counsel Timothy Hannigan, Esq., Rich Brandt of the NYSDOH - New York State Health Department, EMS expert Scott Bowman and Ellen Nooney from the Albany County Sheriffs Office. Follow this link to learn what your department needs to know about this new legislation 👉 https://bit.ly/37DFt1j

04/19/2022

JAY R. SIEGMAN, age 57 of Wheatfield, NY, was called to his heavenly home on April 18, 2022, while at the Our Lady of Peace Nursing Care Residence, Town of Lewiston, NY. Born in North Tonawanda, NY on January 18, 1965; son of the late Howard and Loretta (Severance) Siegman. Jay was employed at Snyder Industries, as a machinist for 33 years, until his massive stroke in 2019. A life long member of St. John Lutheran Church, in Wheatfield, also a member of St. Johnsburg Volunteer Fire Company for 39 years, the NYSVF Judging Association- Western Division, and enjoyed deer hunting.
Survivors include his wife, Kimberly (Prantera) Siegman; two children, Nicholas Henneberger and Sarah Siegman; three fur children, Bear, Roxy, and Duke; a sister, Kathleen Greenland (Wally Rowell); uncle, Pete (Judy) Siegman; many nieces, nephews, great nieces, great nephews, cousins, and in-laws.
Jay was preceded in death by a brother, Jeffery Siegman.
Friends may call at the DuBois Funeral Home, 2436 Niagara Road, (Bergholz) in Wheatfield, on Saturday (April 23) from noon until 4:00 p.m. Members of the St. Johnsburg Fire Company will conduct a memorial service at 3:30 p.m. Funeral service will take place following the visitation at 4:00 p.m., with the Rev. Michael Borgstede, officiating. A private interment, along with the family, will take place in St. John Lutheran Cemetery. In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to St. John Lutheran Church, or St. Johnsburg Fire Company.