The Joe Hickey Fire Service Award
At the closing banquet of the 2009 World Burn Congress (WBC), outgoing Society President Ron Siarnicki announced the establishment of a new Phoenix Society annual award. The Joe Hickey Fire Service award honors a firefighter or firefighter burn foundation who provides assistance to burn survivors, demonstrates a commitment to improve burn care through all phases of recovery, and works to carry on the mission of the Society and the local burn community. The award recipient must follow the late firefighter Joe Hickey's philosophy of placing the wellbeing of burn survivors above all, as his or her top priority.
The following 11 organizations, representing the fire service community, in partnership with the Phoenix Society, have joined together as sponsors with a $10,000 donation that will, according to Chief Siarnicki, "keep the Joe Hickey Award alive":
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