An expected 300 fire service leaders will meet March 3-4, 2007, by invitation, at Fireman’s Fund Insurance Co. headquarters in Novato, Calif., for the second National LODD Prevention Summit. The meeting is being organized by the National Fallen Firefighters Foundation and the “Everyone Goes Home” Firefighter Life Safety Initiatives Program team.

The first summit, held in Tampa in 2004, resulted in the creation of the 16 life-safety initiatives at the core of the “Everyone Goes Home” effort. Since then, the NFFF has fully implemented the program and developed strategic objectives to promote and support the initiatives, including production and distribution of the firefighter life-safety resource training kit, the national “Everyone Goes Home” Advocates program, the “Courage to be Safe” training program, and other important programs.

Still, the NFFF points out that since the 2004 summit, more than 200 firefighters have died in the line of duty, and thousands of firefighters have been critically injured. The purpose of the second National LODD Prevention Summit is to take implementation strategies to the next level, in part by facilitating a forum that leverages the talents and ideas of fire service leadership.

For more details regarding the “Everyone Goes Home” effort, visit www.EveryoneGoesHome.com.