Mountain Home Air Force Base Firefighters to host NFFF Golf Tournament

The National Fallen Firefighters Foundation Golf Tournament, hosted by the Mountain Home Air Force Base Firefighters Association, will be held on Saturday, July 17, 2010 at the Silver Sage Golf Course at Mountain Home Air Force Base. The tournament will be played in a scramble format, with a shotgun start beginning at 0900 hours. Proceeds from this event will be donated to the National Fallen Firefighters Foundation to support its efforts to honor firefighters who died in the line of duty, provide resources for surviving family members, and prevent future fire service fatalities.

This event is one of over 40 regional golf tournaments that will be held across the United States in 2010 to benefit the National Fallen Firefighters Foundation. Proceeds from NFFF golf Tournaments directly support the upkeep and future expansions of the National Fallen Firefighters Memorial in Emmitsburg, Maryland, and enable surviving family members and coworkers of fallen firefighters to attend the National Fallen Firefighters Memorial Weekend held there each October. These funds also help to endow scholarships and job training for the spouses, children, and stepchildren of fallen firefighters, and enable the Foundation to provide logistical and emotional support to both volunteer and career departments when coping with a line-of-duty fatality from within their ranks. Additional financial support also empowers the Foundation to commit significant resources toward the Everyone Goes HomeŽ program, a comprehensive initiative focused toward the prevention of future firefighter deaths and casualties.

In 2010, for the first time, military firefighters who died while performing firefighting duties will be honored at the National Fallen Firefighters Memorial located on the campus of the National Emergency Training Center in Emmitsburg, MD. The Department of Defense has provided records of military firefighter deaths going back to 1981 when the National Fallen Firefighters Memorial was established and those firefighters will be honors at the National Fallen Firefighters Memorial Weekend on October 2-3, 2010.

For more information about the National Fallen Firefighters Golf Tournament at Mountain Home Air Force Base, please visit the tournament website at http://golf.firehero.org/id/mountainhome/ or contact Steven Boyd or Brandon Richards at (509) 594-2131.