Calling all websites and blogs: Help us honor the nation’s fallen firefighters.

Get the code for the 2010 National Fallen Firefighters Memorial Weekend Tribute Widget

(Please let NFFF know you are running the widget on your site. Send the link to webteam@firehero.org.)

Today is a day when we remember nine firefighters from Charleston, South Carolina who died in the Sofa Super Store fire three years ago. There are lots of tributes on the web to the Charleston 9 including at the blogs Two In – Two Out, The Fire Critic, Fire Daily, Command Safety, Firehouse Zen, and The Company Officer.

Billy Goldfeder at Firefighter Close Calls/The Secret List and Grant Mishoe at SConfire.com, who helped alert us all early that evening to what was going in in Charleston, also look back.   

By coincidence this is also the date the National Fallen Firefighters Foundation has kicked off a new program honoring another group of firefighters that gave their lives in the line of duty. And if you are a blogger, or webmaster, or have a Facebook or Firefighter Nation page, your help is needed.

 It comes under the banner “We Will Honor Them”. Starting with Captain Eric A. Tinkham of the Queen Creek Fire Department in Arizaona NFFF will feature each day one of the 105 firefighters being honored at this year’s ceremony during Memorial Weekend in October.

This is a widget that can be a part of your website or blog. It isn’t just for the fire service media, some of who were briefed earlier this week. NFFF would like to see it on every fire department website and blog in the country.

The feature will include a link to something else that is new this year, a virtual version of the Remembrance Banner. The  family and friends of a fallen firefighter sign the banner while at the National Fallen Firefighters Memorial. Now there is a way for those who can’t make it to Emmitsburg to be a part of the tribute. 

All you have to do is add the code to your site once and each day it will show another firefighter we’ve lost. 

The first site I noticed adding this feature earlier this week was Jason Hoevelmann’s A Firefighter’s Own Worst Enemy. Since then I spotted it on Firegeezer,  Command Safety, Back Step Firefighter,  Five Alarm Photography, Firehouse Zen and the PGFD PIO Blog  (I am sure there others I have missed). Thank you all.

Click here to learn more and get the block of code for the 2010 National Fallen Firefighters Memorial Weekend Tribute Widget.

FULL DISCLOSURE: In previous years when I told you about NFFF activities, I was doing so strictly as volunteer. I am now a paid consultant for the Foundation on media related matters.

Also on STATter911 …

• Carry NFFF 2011 Memorial Weekend live streaming on your department’s website. Spread the word about Bells Across America. – October 11, 2011
• From the NFFF: Honor the fallen from 9-11 with a Memorial Stair Climb. – February 1, 2011
• Arrangements for Hal Bruno, NFFF Chairman Emeritus – November 9, 2011
• Firefighters step up for CFSI/NFFF 9-11 Memorial Stair Climb – April 7, 2011