The Fire Engineering Lifetime Achievement Award has been given out during the General Session at FDIC since 1998. In 2009, the award was renamed for Tom Brennan, who was the editor of Fire Engineering for eight years and a technical editor until he passed away in 2006.
Awards
The Ray Downey Courage and Valor Award is presented annually at FDIC to recognize a firefighter who was shown exemplary courage on the fireground.
Previous Ray Downey Courage and Valor Award Recepients:
- FDNY Deputy Chief Ray Downey (2002, posthumously)
- St. Louis (MO) Firefighter Derek D. Martin (2003, posthumously)
- Novato (CA) Captain Douglas McDonald (2004)
- Philadelphia (PA) Captain John Taylor (2005, posthumously)
- Detroit (MI) Senior Firefighter Sean Neary (2006)
- FDNY Lieutenant Howard Carpluk (2007, posthumously)
- Fall River (MA) Lieutenant Michael Cabral (2008)
- Milwaukee (WI) Firefighter Anthony Rueda (2009)
- Yuba City (CA) Captain Eric Hankins (2010)
- FDNY Firefighter First Class Peter Demontreux (2011)
- Chicago (IL) Firefighter Larry McCormack (2012)
- Stamford (CT) Firefighter William O’Connell (2013)
- Bryan (TX) Lieutenant Gregory Pickard (2014, posthumously)
- Warren Township (IN) Fire Captain Sean Killelea (2015)
- New Haven (CT) Firefighter Jason Rivera (2016)
- FDNY Firefighter James Lee Jr. (2017)
- Cobb County (GA) Firefighter II Rusty Brown (2018)
- Hanover County (VA) Fire-EMS Lieutenant Bradford T. Clark (2019, posthumously)
