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The National Fallen Firefighters Foundation and the Everyone Goes Home Firefighter Life Safety Initiatives Program is pleased to announce that the America’s Fire Heroes Whistle Stop Tour Bus Wrap has won the International Award in the 2007 BUSRide/Avery Dennison Graphics MotorVision Competition. The design will be featured in the November 2007 issue of BUSRide Magazine.
The design, a moving memorial to 3,147 fallen firefighters enshrined on the National Fallen Firefighters Memorial in Emmitsburg, Maryland, was the focal piece of a national tour to reduce the number of firefighter line-of-duty deaths in the United States.
Created by Amy de Boinville, Patti Odbert, and installed by Applied Advertising, Inc., loving care was taken to ensure that not one letter of any firefighter’s name was missing. This was achieved through painstaking work of wrapping the design around the many keyholes, vents, hinges and gaskets of the Whistle-Stop Tour bus. The concept also wrapped the names completely around the bus and leaving no space to signify the sincere hope for mitigating firefighter fatalities in the future.
Making 20 official stops in major cities across the country, this bus, operated by U.S. Coachways, was seen by thousands of people including: members of the public, the fire service and fire service survivors. It brought to the public a message of prevention and how they could keep their families safe while also ensuring that firefighters come home to their own families.
For the fire service, it was not only a tribute to our fallen brothers and sisters but reminded us that we should honor their memory by ensuring that “Everyone Goes Home” after every call. Fire service survivors from across the country were able to locate the name of their loved one, touch it, take photos and recall special memories of their firefighter.
We offer our sincerest gratitude to everyone who worked tirelessly to make the Whistle-Stop Tour Bus design a reality. This endeavor helped us continue to honor the families of our fallen firefighters and move forward in reducing firefighter fatalities through the Everyone Goes Home Firefighter Life Safety Initiatives Program.