Program will provide benefits to families and departments following duty deaths
SEATTLE - Multiple top fire service organizations, including the National Fallen Firefighters Foundation’s L.A.S.T. Program, have joined Lighthouse Uniform Company in making available ‘With All Due Respect’, a program dedicated to providing support and resources in the wake of line-of-duty deaths.
This program recognizes the ‘need it now’ nature of firefighting tragedies and represents the coming together of many of the country’s State Fire Chief Associations, leading firefighting media companies and a number of top manufacturing companies – all capable, willing and committed to providing those items ‘needed now’.
“Our ‘With All Due Respect’ LODD Resource Program is an attempt to fill the missing piece in the National Fire Fighters Foundation’s ‘Taking Care of Our Own’ Program’ - that of the manufacturing community being mobilized enough to provide immediate, overnight, service,” said Steve Cohen, President of Lighthouse Uniform Company. “After identifying those incidental things often missing from a department’s in-house inventory, we went looking for companies who could help meet those needs. It was quite gratifying to find people jumped at the chance to be involved.”
Charter members of the ‘With All Due Respect’ LODD Resource team include:
- Carrot–Top Industries / Flags; presentation, memorial, flag poles, etc…
- CISM Perspectives; LODD Notification Cards, grief and traumatic stress management
- Custom Display Designs, Inc; Commemorative Shadow Boxes
- FD Friendly; Mourning bunting, black and purple mourning fans
- Lighthouse Uniform Company; Fallen Fire Fighter Dress Uniform Program, Dress and Honor Guard Uniforms, caps, collar pins mourning bands
The ‘With All Due Respect’ Program is available to any department needing it. Currently, departments and individuals may access the program through the Lighthouse Uniform Company web site at www.lighthouseuniform.com/LODDResourceProgram. Eventually, the program will be accessible via links from various fire service organizations, including many State Chiefs Association web sites.