Orland Fire Protection District is proud to host the NATIONAL FALLEN FIREFIGHTERS FOUNDATION Everyone Goes Home Whistlestop Tour on April 14. OFPD will be one of the six weekend anchor stops with rallies, preparedness fairs, training opportunities, and speeches given by local dignitaries.

The National Fallen Firefighters Foundation is launching a nationwide whistle-stop tour to promote firefighter safety issues, with a key message of "Everyone Goes Home."

This tour will make 20 official stops across the Nation and numerous spontaneous visits to promote firefighter safety and public fire safety with a goal of reducing the number of firefighter line-of-duty deaths by 25% within 5 years. A motor coach bus, accommodating 55 persons, will be wrapped with their message: "Everyone Goes Home." The Everyone Goes Home™ program was founded by the National Fallen Firefighters Foundation to support the United States Fire Administration's goal of reducing firefighter deaths by 50% within the next ten years.

Watch for further information as it becomes available.

EVENT INFORMATION

WHEN: Saturday, April 14, 2007 from 1200 - 1600 hours (that's noon to 4 p.m.)
WHERE: Lowe's parking lot, 15601 S. LaGrange, Orland Park
WHAT: come and listen to speakers reporting on the progress in firefighter safety, view exhibits and displays, musical entertainment, fire apparatus parade & display

COME OUT AND HEAR Allyson Coglianese Murphy, Daughter of Lieutenant Edmond P. Coglianese, Chicago Fire Department

Background:

My father, Edmond P. Coglianese, was a Lieutenant with the Chicago Fire Department. He gave his life, the ultimate sacrifice, doing what he loved and serving the citizens of Chicago on January 26th, 1986. He saw to the safe exit of several residents during an arson-related fire at a transient hotel before returning again to search for more victims and succumbing to smoke inhalation and burns. I was 12 and my brother Matthew was 9.

The difficult part of mourning my father's death was that I wanted and somehow needed everyone around me, everyone in Chicago, to be in mourning as well. But that was not to be. The Chicago Bears won the Super Bowl later that day and now everyone's attention and priorities turned to celebrating the big win. Sharing this "anniversary" of my hero's life and sacrifice with that of many Chicagoans' "heroes," a professional football team's championship will never cease to fade from the media's memory. Every year, every Super Bowl, thousands in and around Chicago reminisce and celebrate the 1985 Chicago Bear's victory. It is on the news, in the papers, it is everywhere. But only a few dozen or so remember and celebrate the life of a true hero.

NATIONAL FALLEN FIREFIGHTERS FOUNDATION Presents
16 Life Safety Initiatives: The Courage To Be Safe So Everyone Goes Home
April 11, 2007, hosted at Orland Fire Protection District FH #3
Cost is Free. This is a Train-the-Trainer program.
For more info and to register, CLICK HERE.

COURAGE TO BE SAFE Program

A FREE program for firefighters! This provocative and moving presentation is designed to change the culture of accepting the loss of our firefighters as a normal occurrence. The National Fallen Firefighter Foundation in conjunction with OFPD will present this program before the whistle-stop tour comes to Orland Park.

April 14 from 8:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.
Tinley Park Holiday Inn Convention Center, 18501 Harlem, Tinley Park

FAX your name, phone number, and department to 708-349-0354 to register
CALL 708-349-0074 with questions.

Orland Park
Georgio's Comfort Inn
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Tinley Park
Hotels on Harlem Ave. are about 20 minutes away from Orland Park.

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Fairfield Inn by Marriott
Hampton Inn
Hilton Garden Inn
La Quinta Inn
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