The health and safety of everyone is a top priority and we want to ensure that everyone remains safe. 

The NCFFF will honor this years new Angel families and their Fallen Firefighter during our 2021 Memorial Weekend. The 16th Annual Memorial Service will be held on May 1, 2021. 

Join us on Saturday, August 15 at the South Atlantic FIRE RESCUE Expo in Raleigh for the 2020 Memorial Stair Climb. 

This new event will raise funds for the NCFFF. 

The BB&T building is 29 floors and is across South Salisbury Street from the Raleigh Convention Center. Sponsorship opportunities are available. 

Climbers will receive a commemorative T-shirt and Stair Climb medallion. Register online now. 

PDF version of Stair Climb Poster: stair-climb-poster_001

RALEIGH, NC - In response to the current public health crisis involving the COVID-19 Virus, the North Carolina Fallen Firefighters Foundation announces that the 15th Annual Memorial Service, scheduled for Saturday, May 2, 2020 will be postponed effective immediately.

The postponement includes the following events:

- Survivor Family Dinner at Station 1, RFD (Private Event) (Friday, May 1, 2020)
- Candlelight Service at Nash Square, Raleigh (Friday, May 1, 2020)
- Fallen Firefighters Parade (Saturday, May 2, 2020, 10:00 am)
- Memorial Service, Nash Square, Raleigh (Saturday, May 2, 2020 1:00 pm)

The 15th Annual NCFFF Memorial Service is now scheduled to take place concurrently with the North Carolina State Firefighter’s Association (NCSFA) annual Conference and Convention held in August. The Conference and Convention is known as the South Atlantic FIRE RESCUE Expo (SAFRE) and is held August 12-15, 2020 at the Raleigh Convention Center, located at 500 South Salisbury Street.

(See www.safre.mobi for schedule and other details)

“Given the uncertain circumstances regarding public gatherings in the foreseeable future, the NCFFF is planning to conduct the 15th Annual Memorial Service during SAFRE in Raleigh this coming August,” according to NCFFF Public Information Officer Jeff Harkey. “In addition to the Annual Memorial Service to be held on Friday, August 14, the NCFFF will also be participating in the NCSFA Memorial Service on Thursday, August 13. It is important to note that these two events will take place on different days at specific venues.”

PRELIMINARY REVISED SCHEDULE FOR AUGUST 2020

- THURSDAY, AUGUST 13, 2020

2020 NCSFA Annual Memorial Service (Recognition of NCSFA members that died from July 1, 2019 until June 30, 2020)
Raleigh Convention Center, Ballroom C, from 4:00 pm to 5:00 pm

Candlelight Service, Nash Square, Raleigh. 8:00 pm (Open to the Public)

- FRIDAY, AUGUST 14, 2020

15th Annual NCFFF Memorial Service – Survivor Family Dinner (2020 Honoree Families)
Raleigh Holiday Inn Downtown, 320 Hillsborough Street, Raleigh
5:00 pm (Private Event)
Current inductees and prior survivor families are invited.

15th Annual NCFFF Memorial Service (2020 LODD Honorees)
Nash Square, NCFFF Memorial
Dawson and Hargett Streets, Raleigh
Time: Immediately following Family Dinner (Open to the Public)

Red Helmet Ride (tentative)

- SATURDAY, AUGUST 15, 2020

NCFFF Memorial Stair Climb (New Event)
BB&T Tower
434 Fayetteville Street (across from the Raleigh Convention Center)
7:00 am – 9:00 am
Registration information is available at www.safre.mobi
This is a fund raising event for the NCFFF.

The following events will not take place in 2020:

Fallen Firefighters Parade (typically held Saturday morning in May)

2020 LODD HONOREES
The following individuals will be honored on Friday, August 14:

04/10/1880 William Ellerbrock, Wilmington FD
06/17/1893 Joseph B. Willard, Wilmington Hook and Ladder
11/26/1946 Frank W. Bennett, Durham FD
08/18/1964 George W. House, Sr., Asheville FD
07/04/2018 Michael Goodnight, West Liberty FD
12/18/2018 David Wayne Page, Durham FD
01/31/2019 Karen Shuart, Asheville FD
03/07/2019 Wayne R. Mason, Tri-Beach FD
05/30/2019 Dennis Ebersole, Kure Beach FD
08/29/2019 Keith Tessinear, Raleigh FD
09/20/2019 Claud Messer, Jonathan Creek VFD

For general inquiries about the new schedule, please contact any of the following:

Rick Fleming, NCFFF President at firedoc127@yahoo.com
Kathy Weatherspoon, NCFFF Secretary at kathy.weatherspoon@gmail.com
Jeff Harkey, NCFFF PIO at cfp700@carolinasfirepage.com

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He was transported to a local medical facility but did not survive.

Joe Jessie Tucker, Jr., age 62, died suddenly early Sunday morning while serving his community as a volunteer fireman with Thoroughfare Fire Department. Joe was born in Wayne County to the late Joe Jessie Tucker and Addie Gooding Tucker. Joe was also preceded in death by his siblings, Liza “Tempie” Aycock, Linda Hall, Sherby Hines, Earl Tucker and Ernest Tucker. In addition to being a member of the Thoroughfare Fire Department, Joe had served with both the Arrington Fire Department and Mar Mac Fire Department. He was a member of Providence United Methodist Church and a former Boy Scout Leader with BSA Troop 10. He was employed with FleetPride, Inc. and enjoyed spending free time hunting and fishing.

A service to celebrate Joe’s life will be held Saturday at 11:00 am at Providence United Methodist Church with Rev Bryan Sexton and Mr. Rudy Peedin officiating. Burial with Fire Department Honors will follow in the church cemetery. The family will greet friends Friday evening from 6:00 until 8:00 pm in the church sanctuary.

Joe is survived by his wife, Delaine Tucker; a son, Brandon Tucker and wife, Cassie; a daughter, April Tucker Hamilton and husband, Julian; his sisters, Eloise Tucker, Virginia Pope and Judy Harper; and a grandchild, Addie Hamilton.

In lieu of flowers, memorial gifts may be directed to Thoroughfare Fire Department, 157 Herring Road, Goldsboro, NC 27530 or Providence United Methodist Church, 202 Providence Church Road, Goldsboro, NC 27530.

Corbin Lee Rogers, 20 of Carthage, passed on Friday, Jan. 31, 2020, from injuries sustained in an automobile accident.

Corbin was born Feb. 23, 1999, in Pinehurst to Jimmy Rae Rogers and Karen Faith (Key) Rogers. He joined the Carthage Fire Department as a volunteer in March 2018, shortly before graduating from Union Pines High School. He went on to earn his firefighters certifications through the Sandhills Community College Fire Academy. He worked part-time with the Carthage Fire Department and full time with the Spring Lake Fire Department in Cumberland County. He loved to play guitar, video games with Spencer and Jay, cooking, and old music like the Beatles and Johnny Cash. He is and will always be well loved by his family, friends, and brotherhood of firefighters.

He is survived by his parents, Jimmy and Karen Rogers, of Carthage; his brother, Logan Rae Rogers, of Carthage; godsister, Kendyl Cole, of Charlotte; grandparents, Wayne and Loreen Key, of Carthage, Jimmy L. Rogers, of North Myrtle Beach, S.C., and Marylyn B. Rogers, of Carthage; a step-grandmother, Kathy W. Rogers, of Wilmington; many aunts, uncles and cousins.

In lieu of flowers, memorial donations can be made in memory of Corbin Lee Rogers to the North Carolina Fallen Firefighter Foundation, P.O. Box 68, Bahama, NC 27503

Online condolences may be made to www.bolesfuneralhome.com  Services entrusted to Boles Funeral Home of Southern Pines.

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Departments planning to bring apparatus to service should contact Chief Mike Cameron, Southern Pine Fire Department, 910-692-2720, cameron@southernpines.net

Arrangements for Spring Lake and Carthage Firefighter Corbin Rogers:

VISITATION: Wed, Feb 5 18:00 to 21:00
Boles Funeral Home
425 W Pennsylvania Ave
Southern Pines, NC

FUNERAL: Feb 6 11:00
Grace Church
1519 Luther Way
Southern Pines, NC

BURIAL: (Tentative)
New Home Baptist Church Cemetery
1000 Lobelia Road (Highway 690)
Vass, NC

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A Celebration of life will be held at noon Monday September 23, 2019 at Stuart Auditorium 20 Chapel Drive Lake Junaluska, NC.

Any agencies wishing to show their respects by attending can indicate their availability at the following link.  Agencies may participate in the processional from Jonathan Creek Fire & Rescue.

https://forms.gle/Q1QjmwGghCPV9ieaA

We will post more information when it becomes available.

On behalf of Jonathan Creek Fire and Rescue:
First responders across Haywood County are mourning a devastating loss Friday morning as one of their own was killed in the line of duty.

Captain Claud G. Messer, 74, died Friday, September 20th after he was involved in a wreck on US 276, North of Maggie Valley while driving his fire apparatus to an emergency traffic accident call.

Captain Messer was a founding member of Jonathan Creek Fire and Rescue in 1986 and he was the Chairman of the department’s Board of Directors.

“We lost a brother today. He was a pillar of this community and I can’t think of a time where he wasn’t helping someone,” said Jonathan Creek Fire and Rescue Chief Bob Messer. “I cannot remember a time we didn’t talk at least two times a day. We are devastated.”
We are praying for strength for everyone who knew Captain Messer.

Obituary

Funeral service for Jonathan Creek Fire Department Captain Claud G. Messer:

A Celebration of Life will be held at noon, Monday, September 23, 2019, at Stuart Auditorium in Lake Junaluska, with Pastor David Reeves officiating.

Claud lived his life to serve others, and the family would ask to continue his memory with memorials to: Jonathan Creek Fire Department, PO Box 158, Waynesville, NC 28786.