2025 YEAR-END UPDATE

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 for, inform and train those dedicated individuals. As the only Association that represents the interests of the actual men and women who respond when called, we take this role very seriously every day. When we take a position on a statewide issue that affects our membership, we must ensure that it impacts all of them equally regardless of their geographic location or department size.

As we close out 2025, we wanted to update you on several issues of importance that affect the health, safety and viability of the volunteer fire and EMS services statewide.

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