LACoFD Firefighters Set Another

Record For Fill the Boot!

May 7, 2008

Thank you and congratulations to everyone who participated in the Department-wide Fill the Boot campaign for the MDA on April 24^th, 25^th, and 26^th.

Once again you set a new LA County Fire record by bringing in more than $378,000 in three days for the Muscular Dystrophy Association, easily breaking the old LACoFD record of $347,000 set just last year! And this new record total is going to inch up a few more notches with a couple of battalions scheduled to make up their Fill the Boot efforts in the next few weeks.

Once again Battalion 5 topped everyone by bringing in over $60,000 just themselves! Great work, ladies and gentlemen! And truly, great work by everyone!

For over 50 years the Muscular Dystrophy Association has been the “adopted charity” of firefighters across the nation, each year being the single biggest contributor to the MDA during Jerry Lewis’s annual telethon for “Jerry’s Kids” over Labor Day weekend.

The money that we collect pays for care and equipment as well as sponsoring thousands of kids with muscular dystrophy to go to summer camp. These afflicted kids look forward to camp all year long, and for many of them it is the single most enjoyable event of their lives.

But most of the money goes into continuous research for finding a cure for muscular skeletal diseases. Tremendous progress has been made in recent years in dealing with the more than 100 diseases that fall under the heading of “muscular disease.” However, the journey to finding an ultimate cure is a long and expensive road with the end not yet in sight. The Fill the Boot campaign that firefighters participate in nationwide has been a vital key to all of the MDA’s successes thus far and will continue to be until that final cure is discovered.

The money that firefighters raise goes a long way in improving the lives of those who suffer with muscular dystrophy. Thanks once again from the Local 1014 Executive Board.

Take a bow, folks!

Local 1014 Executive Board