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2008 PFFA SEMINAR
MAY 5th, 6th & 7th, 2008

 
HOTEL ACCOMMODATIONS
HOLIDAY INN SOUTH - BATON ROUGE
Seminar headquarters will be at the Holiday Inn South, located at 9940 Airline Highway, Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70816. The number is 225-924-7021 or 888-814-9602, fax number is 225-924-9816. Room rates are $74 for all types of rooms. Cutoff for this rate is April 14, 2008. The block is being held under the Professional Fire Fighters Association of Louisiana.The Booking Code is FGH.

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The International Association of Fire Fighters, headquartered in Washington, DC, represents more than 287,000 full-time professional fire fighters and paramedics who protect 85 percent of the nation’s population. More than 3,100 affiliates and their members protect communities in every state in the United States and in Canada. The IAFF is one of the most active lobbying organizations in Washington; its Political Action Committee, FIREPAC, is among the top 25 federal PACs among the more than 4,000 in the country.

In addition to city and county fire fighters and emergency medical personnel, the IAFF represents state employees, federal workers and fire and emergency medical workers employed at certain industrial facilities.

USFA Statistics

Career firefighters include full-time (career) uniformed firefighters regardless of assignments, e.g., suppression, prevention/inspection, administrative. Career firefighters included here work for a public municipal fire department; they do not include career firefighters who work for state or federal government or in private fire brigades.

Volunteer firefighters include any active part-time (call or volunteer) firefighters. Active volunteers are defined as being involved in firefighting.

• Estimated number of firefighters in 2006: 1,140,900 (career: 316,950, volunteer: 823,950)
• Firefighters by age group: 16-19 (3.9%), 20-29 (21.1%), 30-39 (28.7%), 40-49 (26.4%), 50-59 (14.9%) 60 and over (5.0%)
• Seventy-four percent of career firefighters are in communities that protect a population of 25,000 or more.
• Ninety-five percent of the volunteers are in departments that protect a population of less than 25,000 and more than 50% are located in small, rural departments that protect a population of less than 2,500.