Nashville Fire Department News

CU First Responders Finance (CUFR) is excited to welcome Nashville Firemen’s Credit Union to their Referral Credit Union program. CUFR’s business lending program provides the avenue for first responder credit unions to refer commercial real estate, apparatus, equipment, and other business loans for potential funding. Nashville Firemen’s Credit Union is happy to collaborate with other first responder credit unions to offer its membership business services through CUFR. The refe...

LION had the honor of attending the by-invitation only IAFF Instructors Development Conference in Clearwater, Florida November 18-21. The annual event supports first responder instructors with HazMat specific training, including the opportunity to meet with industry leaders & vendors. Offering advanced protection Speaking to influencers regarding the state of the industry, LION had a chance to showcase achieving National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) 1994 Standard’s Class 1 cert...

Hendersonville Fire Department Chief Scotty Bush remembers like yesterday one of the first times he realized the incomparable advantage of battery-powered rescue tools. Five years ago, Chief Bush – who was captain at the time – and his team were called to the scene of a wall collapse; a 25-foot concrete wall had fallen at a construction site with three men underneath. “We had such an issue getting our apparatus to the scene – first to navigate all the construction traffi...