i thought was a great matrix. and the firehero.org is a great place to get info. thankyou for doing that

I'm glad you found it helpful Brandon -

Please remember to share anything you come up with.

Stay safe. Train often.

I read your blog and could not agree with you more on the part of Pre-planning. In my department we do mainly services for our retired folks. Thank the Lord we have not had a LODD in our department in close to 50 years. You can never predict a death, although sometime you know when one is near due to illness and the such. One thing we do in my department to Pre-Plan is have every retiree when they leave is fill out a "Funeral service request form". They sometime look at our pension girl funny when she talks to them about this but it has really helped in several cases. The form they fill out when they retire is a simple form that lets us know how involved they want the Honor Guard and Fire Department in the event of there death. The form has check boxes that range from No participation, to only having Honor Guards at the servce to post at the door, registery etc, to full Honors. We have found it easier to have this in hand, when a member dies we can go to the family and say, "Your husband when he retired said he wanted the Honor Guard to be his pall bearrers, is this something that you would still like us to do for you. Most of the time the family is not aware of what there husband/father/wife wanted as far as Fire Department participation at their funeral service. Also having the type of service you offer goes a long way in the Pre-Planning process because everyone knows who gets what level of service.