2021 Award of Valor & Community Service Award

Firehouse has opened the nominations for the Valor and Community Service Awards, the largest awards program of its kind in the fire service.

The Michael O. McNamee Award of Valor recognizes acts of courage and bravery, including both physical acts to rescue a victim in hazardous conditions as well as critical decisions or preventative actions that ensured civilian or firefighter safety.

Unit Citation awards—a component of the Valor Awards—are for efforts made by three or more individuals, or one or more fire company.

Additionally, the Thomas Carr Community Service Awards highlight the actions of fire service personnel who have gone above and beyond in service to their community.

These nominations are for actions that took place in 2021. The winners will appear in the September 2022 issue of Firehouse Magazine.

The deadline for completed applications HAS BEEN EXTENDED to MAY 31, 2022.
No nominations will be accepted after this date.

Should you have any questions please email: valor@firehouse.com

Thank you,
The Firehouse team

*Please be prepared to complete the entire nomination at one time. You will NOT be able to save information and complete at another time.

Question Title

* Which of the following nominations are you submitting?

Michael O. McNamee Award of Valor
Note: Valor nominations are for efforts by one or two individuals. If there are two nominees, include the names of both nominees in the award narratives. The award narrative can be the same for each nominee as long as it describes the actions of both nominees.

Unit Citation Award
Note: Unit Citation nominations are for efforts made by three or more individuals, or one or more fire company. Please submit one nomination for the group, listing the individuals or companies involved in the incident.

Thomas Carr Community Service Award Nomination

Note: Nominations must be made by department personnel, not friends or family. Individuals cannot nominate themselves. Nominees cannot be submitted for both an individual Award of Valor and as part of a group Unit Citation Award for the same incident.