Paul Cummings, a volunteer firefighter in upstate New York, wrote a song called The Fire Fighter Song ( see link at bottom of e-mail) after he had responded to a particular fire few days after his daughter was born. The fire ended up being fatal and Paul wrote the song as a way to move himself past what he had just experienced. The song was never meant to be heard outside of a select few people, but it has turned into the Firefighter Anthem nationwide.

One of the select few that heard The Firefighter Song, was a firefighter out of Louisiana. In 2009, he flew Paul down to play for a firefighter appreciation event. With that said, in the past three years because of his one song, The Fire Fighter song, he has now played for several firefighters in different parts of the United States such as New York, Tennessee, Louisiana, Pennsylvania ETC. The American Fire House Tour was slated to be over in 2012, but after his home-town Rochester, NY had a major tragedy on Christmas Eve in 2012, he decided to fire it back up but with different objectives. In honor of the fallen heroes of the West Webster Fire Department (WWFD) tragedy, Paul planned a month’s worth of events called the 30 in 30. The objective was to put on 30 shows in 30 days, free, for fire departments in and around the Rochester area, in honor of the fallen heroes in West Webster. Paul ended up doing 22 shows, for 53 Fire Departments, and raised over $3000 for the WWFD foundation. Paul’s song and video were also displayed in front of President Obama and the First Lady during the West, TX Memorial.

The Fire Fighter Song was just re-recorded it in Nashville (Produced by Buddy Hyatt from the 80’s rock band TOTO) and it will be released nationwide via radio (terrestrial, internet, satellite) on May 21st, 2013 followed by a music video in late June.

This year The American Fire House Tour has already scheduled 19 dates around the United States and there are many motivating and uplifting objectives of this year’s tour. The American Fire House Tour is mainly to THANK those who are often over looked, and to honor those Fallen Heroes who lost their lives saving others. The American Fire House Tour would also like to provide an opportunity to boost morale and provide low cost entertainment which in turn helps provide fundraising opportunities to lesser fortunate departments. Last but not least, one of the main goals of The American Fire House Tour, is to introduce, educate the public, and raise awareness for the fire service. The American Fire House Tour is a way to show the public what volunteer firefighting is all about, and to show them the dangers that their own neighbors put themselves in front of on a daily basis without hesitation.