Our Organization History Mar 02, 2014 The International Association of Fire Fighters was originally chartered on February 29, 1918.  Lake Area Firefighters, specifically Local 3987 was chartered into the IAFF on November 1, 1999.  It consisted of full time Osage Beach Firefighters and was later joined by Lake Ozark Firefighters in 2001. Welcome Mar 02, 2014 Welcome, My name is Eric Newman and I was elected President of Local 3987 in December of 2017. Although this is a new position for me, I have served as both the Secretar/Treasurer of L3987 and vice president of the Osage Beach shop within our local. I would like to say thank you for visiting the official website of the Lake Area Firefighters Association. We, the Lake Area Firefighters, pride ourselves in our community work effort and creating healthy labor-management relationships with the managers of our respective shops. We also take great pride in the political action that has aided in making our departments labor friendly and safer places to be work. If you have any questions or comments about our local, or the website, please feel free to contact us on the Contact Us page of the website. To members of L3987, thank you for your trust in me to serve as President of this great local. I look forward to working with each shop and moving forward with our political action to have labor friendly boards at all the shops within our local. Sincerely, Eric A. Newman Page Last Updated: Aug 30, 2018 (09:40:00)