Metro Chief’s President, Chief John Butler, and AFM Founder, David A. Moore Jr.
On May 1st, 2025, leaders of the Metropolitan Fire Chiefs Association (Metro Chiefs) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Africa Fire Mission! As part of this MoU, Africa Fire Mission strengthened its relationship with Fire Chiefs from Metro fire departments and will be able to help increase support for fire departments in Africa. Metro Chief’s members will collaborate with AFM through travel with our team for training and consultation and will help support improving equipment for fire services in Africa.
This MoU was signed and announced under the leadership of the President of the Metro Chiefs, Chief John Butler, and Africa Fire Mission Founder, Dave Moore.
The Metropolitan Fire Chief’s Association brings together fire chiefs from large metropolitan fire departments to share information and focus on major issues affecting policy changes in the U.S. and abroad. Its members are leaders of departments with a minimum staffing of 350 fully paid career firefighters.
Africa Fire Mission is committed to increasing the sustainable capacity of fire departments across Africa. We accomplish this through training, empowerment, support and encouragement:
• Train – We partner with African governments, NGO’s, missionaries, schools and corporations to provide education and training to firefighters and local communities. We use Community Health Education to teach firefighters and community members in Africa to protect themselves from the dangers of fire. We provide fire prevention training & fire safety assessments to schools ensuring the students are able to learn in an environment safe from fires.
• Empower – We work to increase the ability of communities in Africa to respond to disasters and provide relief when disasters occur.
• Support – We provide personal protective equipment and communication tools to fire services throughout Africa to allow fire departments to operate in a safer and more coordinated manner.
• Encourage – We build the capacity of African fire services so that local communities are able to provide sustainable public safety and disaster management services.
For more information about this partnership, contact Nancy Moore, Africa Fire Mission, Executive Director
