On Thursday of this week, we provided two of our weighted blankets to the Goose Creek City 911 Center. They are the thirty-fourth 911 center in the State to receive our "Operation Zzz" blankets. These blankets have proven effective in relieving anxiety and stress for our telecommunicators when they encounter particularly stressful phone calls or [...]
Congratulations to our Savannah River Region Coordinators Andy & Teresa Hogg of the Long Branch Fire Department in Barnwell County upon completion of their Emergency Medical Technician program this week! Due to COVID19 restrictions and scheduling issues, it took eight months for them to complete the training but they persevered and finished their practical testing [...]
Yesterday, I was sitting quietly while taking a ride down memory lane. It's a method I have learned from my clinician who helps me often. I was thinking about the people who have helped shape my life. Obviously, I think of my parents who always provided for me and my brother and sisters. But yesterday, [...]
Our Team has worked for several years now with the Center for Firefighter Behavioral Health headquartered at MUSC in Charleston. From providing members of our Team and others to be filmed in training videos, to having our Executive Director serve as a member of the Center’s development team, we are honored to be a part [...]
Sunday was another great day as we traveled to the Pimlico Fire Department where they were hosting Berkeley County’s New Firefighter Orientation Class to seventeen new firefighters from Pimlico, Cross, C & B, and Pineville Russellville Fire Departments. A portion of this class is devoted to providing them with information on the various resources available [...]
We have been pleased for nearly three years to join our friends of the Coastal Crisis Chaplaincy in hosting a monthly support group at our office on the second Thursday of every month. Those meetings have served as a great place to fellowship with folks including firefighters, EMS personnel, 911 telecommunicators, law enforcement, corrections officers, [...]
Join us as we congratulate our Berkeley County EMS Team Coordinator, Laura Stephenson, on her announcement of her departure from EMS after 20.5 years to become an Engineer/Paramedic for the Whitesville Fire Department. Laura was instrumental in the development of our Lowcountry Firefighter Support Team in the early years and she was one of our [...]
Often, we are blessed to be able to talk to our younger firefighters in our communities, many of them just starting out in their careers in the Fire Service. As an old gray-haired junkyard dog, my heart is filled with excitement when I have the opportunity to learn from these young people. There is much [...]
The “9 Days for 9 Heroes” Foundation is dedicated to promoting physical & mental health for first responders & honoring those who made the ultimate sacrifice. Today, we were honored to receive a $ 1,000.00 donation from John and Rachel Cole of the Foundation to support our Team. This money was raised by the Foundation [...]
We recently learned that our first team therapy dog has crossed the Rainbow Bridge. Nox, the amazing pup that started our therapy dog program, passed away recently after moving with his family to Hannibal, Missouri. Adam and Kelley Coley, his human parents, moved to Hannibal some time ago where they both started new jobs. Nox [...]
As we plan to continue to move forward in the New Year in our mission of providing behavioral health care for our emergency services personnel and their families, we are painfully aware of the continued threat of the COVID-19 pandemic. While we joined many others in curtailing activities in 2020, we are entering 2021 with [...]
Please come join us on Thursday, January 14th, at 7:00 p.m., for our monthly First Responder Support Group,. All firefighters, EMS personnel, 911 telecommunicators, law enforcement officers. chaplains and other interested folks, active and retired, are invited to attend.
Please join us to give what you can to help this young man. He is twenty years of age and needs a heart transplant. His father, a local law enforcement officer, has health insurance for him but it is not sufficient to cover all the costs. Read his story at the attached link and [...]
Happy New Year to All of You! Thanks to each of you for all of your support in 2020. We are excited about the New Year as we head into it with great expectations of good things to come. Please continue to follow us to be a part of our journey! Special thanks to the [...]
Funeral services for Colleton County Firefighter Explorer Mathew Thornley will be held Monday, January 4, 2021 at 2:00 in the Chapel of Parker-Rhoden Funeral Home, with burial following in Greenlawn Memorial Gardens. The family will receive friends beginning at 12:00 at the funeral home, located at 117 Paul Street in Walterboro.
Tonight, we reach another milestone in the life of one of our beloved friends and team members. Kimberly Seleen is concluding her career with Charleston County EMS to become a full time nurse, a career she has prepared for over many years, going to school during the day and working 12 hour shifts at night [...]
Tonight, we bring 2020 to a close and also the career of Chief Ann Graham of the Isle of Palms Fire Department. Chief Graham has concluded her 35+ years of service with the IOPFD and moves on to the next season of her life. Chief Graham has contributed amazing service to her community, her [...]
We regret to inform you that Colleton County Firefighter Explorer Matthew Thornton was fatally injured in a vehicle accident on the morning of December 29th in Colleton County. Matthew was very active in the department and was nearing the completion of the Firefighter II Training program. He was 16 years old and had been a [...]
Come join the Georgia Public Safety Peer Team at their “Importance of Peer Support” seminar on January 15 & 16th, 2021 in Alto, Georgia. Alto is in the northwest part of the state not far from the South Carolina state line. There is limited seating for both days so please RSVP at johnbow75@gmail.com or Cindywright32@gmail.com [...]
Today, we joined the friends and family of Ms. Delora Guthke for her 100th birthday celebration. Mrs. Guthke is the widow of Charleston Fire Chief Wilmot Guthke. Chief Guthke served the Charleston Fire Department for nearly fifty years, twenty-five of those as the Chief of the Department. Mrs. Guthke served beside her husband as the [...]
This has been an interesting year to say the least. It is our hope that the New Year will bring good things for all of you. Thanks to each of you for your support and love as our Team moves forward. We continue to sustain ourselves on our original motto of "A Leap of Faith". [...]
We have been pleased for nearly three years to join our friends of the Coastal Crisis Chaplaincy in hosting a monthly support group at our office on the second Thursday of every month. Those meetings have served as a great place to fellowship with folks including firefighters, EMS personnel, 911 telecommunicators, law enforcement, corrections officers, [...]
In 2015, our Team responded to assist firefighters and EMS members after the loss of Firefighter Stewart Hardy in Beaufort County. While there we met Kim Seleen, a paramedic, who had responded to the call and was a close friend of Stewart. We became good friends and sometime later, Kim moved to Charleston County EMS [...]
We are pleased to share that our Teammate Andi Hogg, has been named the Employee of the Year for the North Augusta Department of Public Safety. Andi was named the Employee of the Quarter earlier this year before be named the Employee of the Year this week. Andi has been a member of our Team [...]
Today, Lee Hopkins, our Team's Pee Dee Region Coordinator and I traveled to Horry County to present our “Are You Really Taking Care of Yourself?” Behavioral Health Awareness program to the current HCFR Recruit Class. Our relationship with our friends at Horry County Fire Rescue began quite a few years ago and we have [...]
We are excited to share that our Lowcountry 911 Telecommunicator Support Team continues to grow. Shambra Pellum is a Telecommunicator in the Dorchester County 911 Center. Is addition to his experience as a telecommunicator, he has a degree in communications. He loves helping people, especially younger and older ones. He also has previous experience in [...]
'Tis the season and today we participated in our second parade in as many days. What a beautiful day with lots of friends and other folks in the Summerville Christmas Parade! Ole "Big John" performed flawlessly as we led Santa along the way!
Our Team is pleased to announce that Crystal Manning of the Dorchester County 911 Center has accepted the position of Dorchester County Coordinator for our Lowcountry 911 Telecommunicator Support Team. Crystal has been with Dorchester County for ten years and was also a part of the Old Fort Fire Department for many years. She is [...]
Today, we were invited to be a part of a special Christmas parade for the residents of the Veteran’s Victory House in Walterboro. This facility is home for 186 of our veterans who served our country with pride through several different wars. They have been limited to exposure to the outside world since early Spring [...]
On Thursday night, our Team participated in the introduction of a new program to help us better serve our emergency services personnel. MindResponse, is a program developed by Amanda Custer, M.Ed., L.M.S.W., and uses dialectic behavioral therapy to help participants strengthen their mindfulness, interpersonal effectiveness, emotion regulation, and distress tolerance. It is specifically designed to [...]
A special Happy Birthday post is in order for our good friend Don Wilkins. Don is a true legend in the Fire Service who has led so many men and women in their quest to be top notch firefighters. As an instructor for the South Carolina Fire Academy, and beyond, he has taught most of [...]
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Today we received a donation of $ 889.00 from the Fire & Iron Motorcycle Club, Station 28 as money raised during the Charleston 9 Memorial Poker Run in September. Matt Schneider of Station 28 presented the check to us this morning in Summerville. Many thanks to Matt and all the members of Station 28 who [...]
On Wednesday of last week, we completed our Peer Support training program at Dorchester County EMS with a total of 21 people. We are excited as the following departments and/or organizations were a part of the program: Joint Base Charleston Fire Department, Dorchester County EMS, Dorchester County 911 Center, Berkeley County EMS, Berkeley County 911 [...]
We are pleased to introduce you to Tracy Hejmanowski, Ph.D., the Executive Director of the First Responder Project in Jacksonville, Florida. Tracy and her Team share the love of providing caring and compassionate behavioral health care to our first responders AND military personnel. Our Team long ago learned that we must continue to be [...]
Well, I have officially stumbled over the threshold of my seventies and have reached the ripe old age of 71! You see, it is a big deal for me as my Daddy, most of my uncles, my brother, and many friends left us early in their fifties. I remember when my Dad passed at the [...]
We are fortunate to have many people that support us and work hard to keep us in the mission. Today, one of our heroes came to the rescue as he has many times before. On the way home from a firefighter wedding on Saturday night, our "Viper" Tower Ladder suffered a blowout of the rear [...]
On Wednesday, October 28th was a special day for our Team and our new Teammates from Dorchester County EMS. A while back we helped as DCEMS recruited members from their ranks to become a part of their new internal peer team as well as members of our Lowcountry EMS Support Team. We assisted Jennifer Brown [...]
On Tuesday night, October 27th, our Team presented "Are You Really Taking Care of Yourselves", our flagship behavioral health awareness program, to 36 members of the Goose Creek Rural Fire Department. This program was offered as our contribution to GCRFD's "The Goose Creek Difference" the department's initiative to improve their department and the safety and [...]
Tonight, we join countless others in mourning the loss of a friend and a legend in the community. Butch Barfield, the Emergency Preparedness Coordinator for the City of North Charleston passed this morning after a long battle with cancer. Butch also served in many positions in the City of North Charleston including a firefighter [...]
We are pleased to introduce our newest member to our Team. Melissa Clifford is a firefighter in the Mount Pleasant Fire Department and joined the department in the Fall of last year. She is originally from Chicago and received her bachelor’s degree in Criminal Justice from Sage College of Albany in Upstate New York. [...]
We have learned that Wendy Lee, the former Asst. Director of Dorchester County EMS and the Chief of Berkeley County EMS, is having another surgery today to remove a tumor from her pituitary gland. Wendy is a well-known leader in the emergency services of our State and is a dear friend to all that know [...]
"Fat Baby’s Junkyard Dogs” is a page designed to get firefighters together to share their love of the Fire Service. Each Wednesday, at 8:00 p.m., you can join them online on the “Fat Baby’s Junkyard Dogs” Facebook page to listen to one of our true “junkyard dogs” talking about their careers and their time in [...]
We held our 7th Annual Golf Tournament to raise money to support our Team on this Friday past. We are forever grateful for our 60 sponsors who provided financial support to make this event a reality. We are proud of our Team members who worked hard to make this a huge success and thankful for [...]
Wow, the weather is beautiful, and we are excited as we are moving into the holiday season. Come join us this Thursday, October 8th, at 9:00 a.m., for our First Responder Support Group meeting. It will be held at our Team offices located at 6390 Dorchester Road in North Charleston and a light breakfast [...]
Perfect golf weather coming this week! Come join us for a great day of golf, food, prizes, and fellowship. Register at www.firefightersupport.org.
Unfortunately, due to torrential rain today with more expected on Thursday, our 7th Annual Golf Tournament to support our Team has been rescheduled until Friday, October 2nd, at 8:30 a.m., at the Miler Golf Course in Summerville. All entries already registered will be honored. Refunds are available for those of you that have registered, [...]
Damn it! It has happened again. Damn it! We have lost another friend and firefighter brother. No matter how hard we try, no matter how much we reach out, no matter how much we care, the darkness of someone taking their own life pervades our every thought tonight. We counsel people on how to grieve, [...]
Many of you know that we have several old fire trucks in the Community Outreach Program of our Team to support many causes through our community. We use them for different purposes, whether being in a firefighter wedding, a child’s birthday party, a parade anywhere we can find one, supporting Autism Awareness, women or men’s [...]
Sometimes, we are asked to respond to a scene where our emergency services personnel have encountered a difficult and sometimes tragic call. We usually are called after the incident has cleared up and everyone is back in their quarters. Regardless, we will respond any time we are asked regardless of the circumstances. Our on-scene response [...]
After several months, we are restarting our First Responder Support Group meeting on Thursday, September 10th, beginning at 9:00 a.m., in the Team's office located at 6390 Dorchester Road in North Charleston. We usually meet for an hour in order to allow folks to get on with their busy day but you are welcome to [...]
Often, we tend to avoid reaching out when we need help. Sometimes, we convince ourselves that our problems will go way, or that we don’t need help. Sometimes, we refrain from seeking help because we don’t want to be judged. We tell ourselves that “it will pass”, “they won’t understand”, “it will show weakness” or [...]
If a large group of us were in a room and we were asked if we thought suicide was a problem in our first responder world, most if not all of us, would agree that it is a serious problem. That agreement is the “Stepping Up” part. That, at least, gives us hope that we [...]
We are absolutely blessed on our Team to have twenty amazing clinicians serving our emergency services personnel and their families in addition to providing guidance to all our peer team members working in the field. Ran across this photo today of four of them that reminds us just how blessed we are. Pictured left to [...]
We are excited to share with you that our Lowcountry EMS Support Team continues to grow as the Dorchester County EMS Team has added two additional members this week. Please join us in welcoming Scott Miller and Scott Chisolm to the Team. Scott Miller has been a paramedic crew chief for five years and an [...]
We continue to improve the effectiveness of our Firefighter, EMS and 911 Support Teams by moving team members into leadership positions. Today, we are announcing that Tori Bennett of the Horry County 911 Center has been named to be our 911 Team Coordinator in Horry County. Tori has been with the Horry County 911 Center [...]
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Our Team thrives due to the many people who dedicate their time and talent to our Team. Whether it is a team coordinator, a peer team member, a clinician, a driver, a mechanic, or someone who supports our efforts, we are blessed to call them our teammates. There is a lot going on behind the [...]
We are excited to welcome two new members to our Lowcountry EMS Support Team. Andrea Hamilton and Jeremy Sommerfeldt are currently employed with Dorchester County EMS and will join our Dorchester EMS Team Coordinator Jennifer Brown and Teammate Patsy Helzer to strengthen our Dorchester County effort. Dreya has been employed by DCEMS since 2002 and [...]
As we move into the future, we continue to evaluate how we can best serve our emergency services personnel and their families. That includes providing the appropriate leadership to our individual teams, whether it be the Firefighter, EMS or 911 Telecommunicator Support Team. As we work to improve our services, we are proud to share [...]
Take a few minutes to listen to these words of wisdom from our own Lee Hopkins. Lee is an amazing, husband, father, son, brother, friend, and teammate. His words come from his years of experiences in his own life and in the lives of those he has helped. https://www.facebook.com/LowcountryFirefighterSupportTeam/videos/303453190936930/
Today, we are saddened to learn of the passing of Ms. Terry Chadwick, the Administrative Assistant of the Mt. Pleasant Fire Department. Terry was an amazing lady who supported not only the men and women of the MPFD, but also our Team. She was always willing to help us and we will miss her [...]
REPOSTED FROM 9 Days for 9 Heroes PAGE! We are very excited to share that tonight we were able to present our first check from the 9 Days for 9 Heroes Foundation! Tonight, we presented the Lowcountry Firefighter Support Team, Inc. with our first check. This check is possible thanks to all who purchased the socks [...]
Have you ever had the experience of something flashing thorough your mind from years ago? Well, tonight, I was enjoying a bowl of orange sherbet after dinner and a wave of memories came over me. First, when my brother, sisters, or me were sick with the flu or a cold and were running a fever, [...]
We soon will gain our 10,000th follower for our Facebook page and we are thankful for the support of each of you. We ask now that you share our page with your friends so that we may continue to grow in our efforts to provide a forum for providing behavioral health care for our emergency [...]
With much regret, we are cancelling our 2020 Emergency Services Behavioral Health Summit scheduled for November 5, 2020 here in Charleston. We had already rescheduled it once and the uncertainty of the future regarding the COVID 19 pandemic made it necessary to arrive at this decision. Much work had gone into planning for this event [...]
We are pleased to introduce our newest Team member, Patricia Helzer. Patsy is a paramedic with Dorchester County EMS and holds multiple certifications in the EMS discipline. She joins Jennifer Brown, our Team Coordinator, to represent Dorchester County EMS on our EMS Support Team. The following is Patsy’s personal summary that she wrote on her [...]
The Lowcountry Firefighter Support Team is proud to be part of this great project! It is a great honor for our Team to serve as a partner for the Center for Firefighter Behavioral Health. Check out the Center's website at www.ccfbh.org for more exciting information! Since 2011, the Team at the Center for Firefighter Behavioral Health [...]
My friends, the turmoil in our country is causing a lot of stress and anxiety for all of us. Our Team works constantly to provide emotional support and behavioral health care you all so much deserve, and it simply hurts our hearts to witness a lot of what is happening. We wish we knew what [...]
May 27th marked the eighth anniversary of the passing of one of the finest men I have ever known. John E. Winn, Sr., a Battalion Chief in the Charleston Fire Department, passed on this day in 2012 after months of battling Mesothelioma. John and I had been friends for many years, and we grew much [...]
During training to prepare ourselves to help others in their time of need, we are taught to read, among other things, a person’s body language, eye movement, and expressions on their faces. The way people sit in their chairs, look at you or look away, frown, smile, grimace, or otherwise express their emotions silently are [...]
Our Team is often blessed with the opportunity to be a part of something special. Recently, the members of the Hanahan Fire Department held a BBQ fundraiser to benefit little Jaxon Lubbehusen, the son of Nick Lubbehusen and Kayla Collins. Nick is a member of the Hanahan Fire Department. The department and the community came [...]
Please join us in welcoming Megan Davis and her dog Duke to our Team! Megan is a fire dispatcher at the Charleston County Consolidated Dispatch Center and Duke, a Rotsky Rottweiler/Husky mix, is nine months old, and is a certified therapy dog. He is excellent with adults and children alike and will be a [...]
Self-isolation and stay-at-home orders have really taken its’ toll on many of you in the emergency services world. Our Team has continued to do all we can to provide the support that you and your families need. Our Peer Team members have used Skype and Zoom to keep up our peer-to-peer contacts while our clinicians [...]
We are excited to announce that Jennifer Brown of Dorchester County EMS has been selected to join us as our Dorchester EMS Coordinator for our Lowcountry EMS Support Team. Jennifer is assuming the position from April Miller as April moves to Berkeley County EMS. Jennifer has been with DCEMS for seven years where she currently [...]
This is written for all of us who have experienced retirement and all of the young ones who it will mean something to one day. Thanks to our Brother, Steve Gillespie for sharing it: When a firefighter leaves the "job" and retires to a better life, many are jealous, some are pleased and yet others, [...]
Some years ago, we came together as a group to form this Team and strike out on our own with little financial support. The small group that made up the Team at the time (five of us) believed then and we believe now, that standing together we could take that “Leap of Faith”. Faith in [...]
Our next "Out of the Ashes" Life Group and Bible Study will be held as a Zoom meeting on Monday, April 27th at 7:00 p.m. Please join us on our Zoom link: https://zoom.us/j/132935055?pwd=VzlUaUtCSzNIbHM4Z0VmTjN5MUkvUT09
Today it was good to get out in the country in fresh air and sunshine to help a first responder. Even though our primary focus is on the behavioral health of our emergency services personnel and their families, our Community Outreach program serves as an opportunity to help them in different ways. We have been [...]
Friends, we need your help. We operate on a frugal budget and the pandemic has caused us to postpone our major annual fundraisers, our golf tournament, and our behavioral health summit until the Fall of the year. Due to that, we are using our reserve funds to operate. We realize these are troubling times for [...]
Our Team always looks forward to this conference to visit with those of you we don't see often. Hats off to the Executive Committee for making this difficult decision. Continue to take care of yourselves. We'll see you soon.
Due to the CV-19 Crisis and concerns about traveling and assembling in a large group, the 2020 Emergency Services Behavioral Health Summit has been postponed and rescheduled for November 5, 2020, in Charleston, South Carolina. We believe this postponement will give participants an opportunity to get back to work and resume some normalcy in their [...]
This is National 911 Public Safety Telecommunicators’ Week when we show special appreciation for all that our Telecommunicators provide in our communities. As in all aspects of emergency services, telecommunications have changed dramatically. There are many communities that still depend on that single office with one dispatcher on duty and there are others that have 30-35 [...]
Our next "Out of the Ashes" Life Group and Bible Study will be held on Monday, April 13th, beginning at 7:00 p.m. Due to restrictions on being together in large groups, we will be meeting by computer or cell phone through our Zoom application. All are welcome to join us! The link to join [...]
I know that a lot of us have different viewpoints about religion and God and I believe we all should have the right to believe what we do. I am not trying to sway anyone to my way of thinking, and I understand that we may disagree. But, for a moment, please let me share [...]
During these difficult times, we all share the hope that we will return to some normalcy in the future. Being restricted to our homes or in our travels continue to make things surreal. Look around at things you may have not noticed before. Neighborhood children playing in the confines of their yard, the beautiful sunshine [...]
First, let me say I’m no Bible scholar but I do believe that God exists and provides for us all each day. Amid all that is happening in our world now, some folks are having difficulty believing that God is taking care of us. I don’t think I am qualified to debate this issue with [...]
We will have our "Out of the Ashes" Life Group and Bible Study on Monday night, March 30th at 7:00 p.m. We will have this meeting by conference call to avoid being together in a group. Our Chaplain Bill Streuber will lead the group as usual. Look forward to having you join us on Monday [...]
The lack of social contact and the isolation caused by this health crisis is beginning to take its’ toll on many folks. Honestly, I never realized how important it is to be able to shake someone’s hand, give them a hug, or otherwise interact with them on a social basis. Someone once told me that [...]
Today, Michelle Brown, our Lowcountry 911 Telecommunicator Support Team Leader and Coordinator, formally announced that she is leaving the Charleston County Consolidated Dispatch Center to take a new position with the South Carolina Ports Authority. We are happy for her as she progresses in her career. We are also happy to share with all of [...]
Posted on Facebook six years ago upon learning of the death of Boston firefighters, Lt. Edward Walsh and Firefighter Michael Kennedy. Rest in peace Brothers: My friends, it is difficult to express how I feel right now. The loss of two Boston firefighters today reminds me of how dangerous this firefighting business can be. But, [...]
We’re sorry to be behind on posting this but we have selected the winner for our “Name Our Motorcycle Contest”. After receiving over 50 suggestions, we have selected the entry by Chief Charlynne Kae Eastman Smith, NCFD Retired. The name of the motorcycle will now be “MackAxtion”. We will be adding the name in gold [...]
Certainly, we are worried about the Coronavirus epidemic and its’ current effect on our everyday lives. And yes, we are concerned. I would be lying to you if I didn’t say so. Concerned because of the unknowns, fearful for our families, concerned about the economy, and concerned about the unprecedented effects on our personal lives [...]
These are difficult days. Stress and anxiety have risen for all of us. We are seeing an increase in the number of you experiencing that stress and anxiety. The curfews, quarantines, closed businesses and schools, curtailed services, and empty store shelves are a lot to absorb in addition to all the other things we are [...]
We are blessed, once again, to also announce that Capt. Jerry Howerton of the Murrell's Inlet Garden City Fire Rescue has joined our EMS Team as our Georgetown County Coordinator. Jerry is a longtime firefighter/paramedic who has a strong training background. We became close to him some time ago when our Team provided [...]
Our Team is working diligently to improve services for all areas and personnel that we serve. In order to strengthen our Lowcountry EMS Support Team, we are adding EMS Team Coordinators in many of our counties in the Lowcountry Region of our state. To that end, pleased join us as we welcome Melissa Rabon-Brown of [...]
Our Team was excited today to unveil the newest addition to the vehicles we use to support our emergency services personnel in our community outreach program. The 1984 Harley Davidson is owned by our Team Leader, David Reindollar, NCFD Retired. He has owned it for quite some time as he converted it to Fire Service [...]
We would like to congratulate our friend Jim Thompson for receiving the Warren McBride Lifetime Achievement Award at the Annual EMS Symposium’s Awards Ceremony in Myrtle Beach on Saturday night. Jim has been active in the emergency services world in South Carolina for more years than we can count and is a true inspiration [...]
Since we began this mission nearly 13 years ago, we have worked to build a Team and a program to address the behavioral health issues of our emergency services personnel and their families. Starting with little to go by, our program, along with many others like ours, have grown to provide many resources to care [...]
The South Carolina State Firefighters’ Association’s Leadership Institute is offered to individuals to improve and develop fire service leadership at the state level through networking and education pertaining to the many facets of the fire service profession. The Leadership Institute is a twelve-month leadership development and educational process in an executive level environment emphasizing communications [...]