The Lieutenant Joseph P. DiBernardo Memorial Foundation is honored to receive your support for our charitable Foundation. We, together with other donors and sponsors, will Partner together to purchase Personal Life Safety Rope Systems, Safety equipment and training for those Fire Departments that do not have the financial ability to provide for the...
We are proud to announce in 2024 we were able to provide 15 Fire Departments across the country a total of $230,943.80 for the purchase of 452 Personal Safety Systems along with the necessary requisite training. To date we have given a total of $1,288,488.90 in Grants to 112 Departments in 26 States and purchased 1,922 Safety Systems along with the...
New Jersey Deputy Fire Chiefs Association presents Jeff Cool with a check for $1200
Northwest Bergen Mutual Aid Association presents Jeff Cool with a $2000 check.
The Lt. Joseph P. DiBernardo Memorial Foundation is proud to announce our 2022 Grant Recipients for the purchase of Personal Safety Systems, Safety Equipment and the requisite Training. 15 Departments across America will receive a total of $166,078.00 for the purchase of 278 Systems. The recipients are Ashland MA, Benton Harbor MI, Clinton SC, Ft. ...
Thin Line Service Dogs is a pioneering organization that was established in 2021 to support the need that provides service dogs to our First Responders and Veterans with disabilities. Thin Line's goal to utilize the puppy in training to service dogs, peer support dogs, facility dogs and our change of career dogs to enhance the lives of our First Re...
Fire News donates $50,000 to local charities Fire News held a charitable awards event recently donating a total of $50,000 to five fire related charities. The commitment to donate the funds was made by Fire News publisher Frank C. Trotta when the Fire News 9/11 20thAnniversary Issue was released last fall. Publisher Frank C. Trotta and Chief O...
The Foundation, in partnership with Steve Sanguedolce, of "Affordable Drill Towers", and Chief Griffin and his fire service instructors from the Woodlands Emergency Training Center, held our first "Lonestar Training Seminar" this past April in Woodlands Texas. With two days of 22 Hands On Classes to choose from and 1 day of lecture presentations, o...
Like our original seminar, which will be held November 4-6, 2022, the newest training offering boasts three days of world class training. The Lonestar Training seminar, sponsored by Affordable Drill Towers, will take place deep in the heart of Texas on April 8-10, 2022. For those farther west who haven't made it out to Long Island yet, here's anoth
The Foundation held their 8th Annual Training Seminar this November 5-7. Over 300 students and instructors from all over the country and Canada were in attendance. Two days of hands-on training were conducted in the field and at different venues. Nineteen hands-on subjects were taught, including: live burns in residential and commercial dwellings,
The Red Coat Challenge was a 5 mile, 20 station Special Forces experience including: hostage rescue, archery, hand-to-hand, and a whole lot of firearms! Each station honored a fallen hero and the event concluded with a Hero Walk to remind participants what they did this for. The Lt. Joseph P. DiBernardo Memorial Foundation received a generous donat
