Create a national "Volunteer Firefighter" day, which will honor, support and promote community safety "volunteers".

With well over seventy-five percent of this country's firefighters, first-responders, and EMT's "volunteer" based and with vital budgets & manpower requirements decreasing, a need to maintain this "force" is essential. The recent events in Breezy Point, NY, New Webster, NY and Newtown, CT have highlighted this vital need, which takes place everyday across this country. A "National Day" would support this "need" by constructing a bridge between departments and residents across the country, developing communications and relationships essential for their future! A community is only as strong as its volunteer fire department and a volunteer fire department is only as strong as its community!