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Enhanced Cancer Coverage & LOD Disability Points

April 30, 2024

Effective January 1, 2019, General Municipal Law Section 205-cc was adopted to provide enhanced cancer disability benefits. The question we are attempting to address with this post is: Would an individual who receives a benefit under this new law also be eligible for LOSAP line-of-duty-disability points? Firefly is not an expert on this law, nor…

MISCELLANEOUS ACTIVITIES CATEGORY

March 31, 2023

One of the point system categories is Miscellaneous Activities. The state law provides: (vii)Miscellaneous activities—maximum fifteen points. Participation in inspections and otheractivities covered by the volunteer firefighters’ benefit law and not otherwise listed—one point peractivity. The three main criteria for an event to be a miscellaneous activity is: 1) It must be an activity. For…

POINTS FOR ONLINE TRAINING

December 30, 2022

In this post, we will provide some insight on awarding points for self-directed, online training. In other words, training that is not interactive with an instructor or moderator, but an e-learning course that can be taken at the pace of the individual. The online course may include intermittent quizzes to ensure the individual is learning…

SEVERE WEATHER EVENTS IMPACTING POINTS FOR DEPARTMENT RESPONSES

November 23, 2022

When severe weather impacts a region, we know that is when communities step up to help neighbors in need. Sometimes these efforts reach the news, like recently when Buffalo Bills quarterback Josh Allen needed help clearing his driveway so he could catch a plane to Detroit for the game. But most times, it is what…

A FIREFLY PROPOSAL TO AMEND THE LOSAP STATUTE

October 25, 2022

Over the years, we have fielded many questions that begin with “Can we” Most of the time, these “can we” questions are about awarding points for certain activities. We decided to create a Memorandum outlining four amendments to Section 217 of the General Municipal Law that would address the most frequent “can we” questions. In…

DUTY CREWS

September 30, 2022

With greater frequency we are handling questions about a fire department wanting to implement duty crews to ensure they have adequate staffing to respond to emergencies. This is a common practice with ambulance squads, but I’m sure anyone reading this blog doesn’t need us to explain how operationally different an ambulance call is vs a…

EARNING SERVICE CREDIT – 50 POINTS IS THE ONLY REQUIREMENT

April 29, 2022

Long before there was LOSAP, fire departments had by-laws that outline membership requirements. 50 years ago, those by-laws were usually strictly enforced, because there was often a waiting list of people waiting to become a member. So firefighters had incentives to meet those requirements, otherwise risk being dropped as an active member. That is also…

AWARDING POINTS FOR COMMITTEES

January 28, 2022

A common question and topic of conversation when discussing point systems is how to award points to committee members and for committee meetings. The two most common mistakes we see in point systems are: Both, in our opinion, are incorrect. A committee member, or the committee chairperson, is not an Elected or Appointed Position as…

DEPARTMENT RESPONSES POINT SYSTEM CATEGORY AMENDED

October 12, 2021

Governor Hochul has signed bill S1210 / A6401 as Chapter 462 of the laws of 2021. Essentially, this new section of the General Municipal Law (GML) allows a LOSAP sponsor to adjust the department responses category of its point system to recognize that some groups of volunteers may be restricted from responding to certain types…

CURRENT STATE OF THE STATE DISASTER EMERGENCY

March 24, 2021

This pandemic has required us to change our behavior and routine in ways most of us have never experienced. Although not very significant, we would have never guessed that we’d be studying Executive Orders issued by the Governor in order to track how that might impact LOSAP. But here we are! If you have any…

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