Twitter account of @IAFFOfficial's Government Affairs Department. Fighting for fire fighters. RT are not endorsements.
Dec 19, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
FF wins in NDAA – $144.1 million for military to purchase FF vehicles; funds to replace stations at Camp Pendleton, Bethesda National Military Medical Center & Youngstown Reserve Base; Transfer of aircraft from USCG to California for wildland fire suppression activities (1/3)
NDAA wins cont. –Direct hire authority for certain title 5 occupations (including firefighting); inclusion of active/reserve military service to meet 12mo. Requirement following use of FMAL or paid parental leave programs; funding for World Trade Center health program (2/3)
Jan 6, 2023 • 10 tweets • 3 min read
As a new Congress finds its footing, below is a thread to look back on the #IAFF legislative successes of 2022!! Jan 3 - @POTUS signs Federal Fire Fighter Flexibility & Fairness Act allowing federal FFs to trade work shifts (1/9)
In March FFs got big wins in an omnibus spending package that included a bump in funding for FF cancer registry, funding for fed. HSGAC, an updated sprinkler provision in the federal code making buildings safer & and CO grant program to install detectors in public housing (2/9)
Dec 23, 2021 • 15 tweets • 6 min read
Before heading into the New Year, a #tbt post looking back on the last year of advocacy & hard work even in the midst of the #Pandemic to some of the major 2021 Legislative wins- a thread (1/14)
At the start of 2021 @POTUS signed EO to create a #COVID19 response coordinator to manage pandemic, including production, supply & distribution of PPE, vaccines & test – FFs need PPE, vaccination & testing priority (2/14)
Apr 8, 2021 • 5 tweets • 3 min read
#TBT thread- a year ago #COVID19 was rapidly spreading & the country was in a shutdown. Fire fighters, unable to work from home, faced unprecedented hardships working on the frontlines of the pandemic. Over the year many things have been done to protect FFs in the #pandemic (1/4)
The #IAFF fought to get #COVID19 included in the Ryan White Notification Act so FFs exposed to a COVID positive person would be notified; LODD benefits were expanded to include #Coronavirus as a line of duty death for fire fighters (2/4)
Mar 9, 2021 • 5 tweets • 3 min read
Senate passes #AmericanRescuePlan to help ffs (a thread) – 300 million for fire fighter grants, 195.3 billion in state & local funding to prevent and reverse layoffs; fill other urgent needs from the #pandemic (1/4)
#AmericanRescuePlan also authorizes Medicare reimburse ground ambulance providers and suppliers for Treatment in Place without transportation when protocol dictates a patient should not be transported (2/4)
