Posted by FCAMSECTREAS - Fri, Apr 20, 2012, 7:23 A

Bereavement Uniform Program

Bereavement Uniform Program

The Lighthouse Uniform Company, long known for its Fallen Fire Fighter Dress Uniform Program, recently started a new program called the Bereavement Uniform Program.

The Bereavement Uniform is an offshoot of the Fallen Fire Fighter Dress Uniform Program. It is an active response to families finding themselves in need of ‘end game’ help.

A little background; Many times over the course of administering the Fallen Fire Fighter Dress Uniform Program, we’ve had difficult conversations about qualifying ‘line of duty death’. We’ve discovered, there is whole generation of firefighters, mostly retired now, who dedicated their lives to the Fire Service, never owned a dress uniform and are beginning to pass away. Their families want to give them a ‘fireman’s funeral’ and they don’t ‘qualify’ for the Fallen Fire Fighter Dress Uniform.

It doesn’t mean they don’t deserve one. It means there needs to be a different program and that’s what gave rise to the Lighthouse Bereavement Uniform Program.

Unfortunately, the Lighthouse can’t afford to provide free dress uniforms to every firefighter passing away. We did what we could with the Bereavement Program. You can get an overview at http://blog.lighthouseuniform.com/?p=1885.

As it turns out, the solution and success of the Bereavement Uniform Program actually hangs in the closets of many fire departments around the country and to that end we are reaching out and asking them to send us their ‘surplus and no longer used dress uniforms which we will clean, refurbish, re-rank as necessary and make them available to those families wanting/needing a Bereavement Uniform, at ‘no cost’.

We will also acknowledge and honor those departments who so generously and graciously gave to make this program work on our website ‘Wall of Fame’ and we will, upon request, send a shipping call tag so there’s no ‘out of pocket’ cost incurred by participating departments.

This is an opportunity to do something meaningful and important. It is an opportunity to “take care of those who took care of us”. With your help, it is doable. To find out more, email us at steve@lighthouseuniform.com or call 1-800-426-5225 (Seattle time). Ask for me.

Steve Cohen, Pres.
Lighthouse Uniform Company