Richard Vella will serve a five-year term and has been a member of the Firemen’s Association of the State of N.Y. since 1992. West Babylon resident Richard Vella has been elected as a director of the Firemen’s Association of the State of N.Y. (FASNY) for a five-year term. Vella has…
Read moreBrighton, N.Y. - Community college students willing to work hard in classroom and the fire hall can attend school for free. The Firemen's Association of the State of New York (FASNY) is offering a tuition reimbursement program beginning this year. The Higher Education Learning Plan, or HELP, is the first…
Read moreALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Volunteer fire companies in New York are trying a new way to attract members: community college tuition reimbursement. The Firemen's Association of the State of New York has a new program that will allow student-volunteers to be reimbursed for up to 80 credit hours from a local…
Read moreThe Fireman’s Association of New York State is now offering a college tuition reimbursement program to fire service volunteers as an incentive to attract new members. Volunteers who have not received an associate’s degree or higher can have all of their tuition paid for as long as the applicant maintains…
Read moreAt its annual firefighter convention on August 17th, the Firemen’s Association of the State of New York (FASNY) unveiled a historic initiative called the FASNY Higher Education Learning Plan (HELP), a first-ever college tuition reimbursement program for the volunteer fire service throughout the state. Due to a variety of factors,…
Read moreA lot of what we do in the fire service is to stand at the ready and be prepared to respond when the tones come in. Yet, no matter how hard we train and plan for every contingency, there are always going to be events that push us to our…
Read moreTaunton, NY -- A former Taunton fire chief was reelected to a second five-year term on the board of directors of the Firemen's Association of the State of New York. Kenneth Pienkowski, a 44-year veteran firefighter who served with the Taunton Volunteer Fire Department, was reelected at a recent convention…
Read moreDavid F. Schmidt of Sanborn has been elected to the Board of Trustees of the Firemen's Association of the State of New York (FASNY) Firemen’s Home, a specialized rehabilitation facility for retired volunteer firefighters in Hudson. Schmidt was unanimously chosen at FASNY’s 139th Annual Convention at the Edgewood Resort in…
Read moreALEXANDRIA BAY, N.Y. -- The three-day convention for the Firemen's Association of the State of New York came to an emotional conclusion Friday. About 200 members of FASNY and other firefighters across the state gathered at the Edgewood in Alexandria Bay to honor the 265 firefighters who died over the…
Read moreUnited States (Ohio) - Recruiting new members remains a challenge for fire departments all across the state, but the Firemen's Association of the State of New York hopes to reverse the declining number of volunteer firefighters with a nearly $4.3 million federal grant. "You have a problem today because the economy's…
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