The Anne Arundel County Profession Fire Fighters will be hosting an American Red Cross Blood Drive on Tuesday, May 15th, 2012. Come join us from 8am to 2pm as we take blood donations and offer up our own to help save lives. Call Donna at 410-987-1180 to schedule your appointment today.
The Anne Arundel County Professional Firefighters today donated $10,000 to the Susan G. Koman Foundation in support of our efforts to fight breast cancer. Members of Local 1563 came up with the idea for the shirt, got approval to wear the shirts as our uniforms for the month of October, and purchased the shirts at our own expense. Members also sold merchandise outside the department and a website was set up that reached all over the country.
Members of Local 1563 and their families came out to Jones Station Company 23's Open House on November 5, 2011 to showcase their efforts from the month of October and to sell remaining Breast Cancer Awareness t-shirts. Proceeds from the shirts are to be donated to the Susan G. Komen Foundation. The donation is expected to be announced later this month once sales have been completed. Members designed the shirts and obtained approval to wear the pink lettered shirts featuring the trademark pink ribbon as their uniform in support of breast cancer for the month of October. The shirts worn were purchased at the expense of the members.
On September 24th, 2011, members of the Burn Foundation and Anne Arundel County Professional Firefighters were on hand to welcome campers and counselors of the International Burn Camp to BWI Thurgood Marshall Airport. Members of Local 1563, and in some cases their family members, gave up their Saturday to greet attendees at the 16th annual International Burn Camp. The Burn Camp, sponsored by the IAFF Burn Foundation, brings more than 40 burn survivors from across North America along with a firefighter from their region to the Washington, DC area.
This years camp was held in our own backyard at Camp Wabanna in Edgewater, MD. With the help of other agencies including BWI Fire Department, and Maryland Fire and Rescue Institute, the campers and their accompanying firefighters were greeted at their arrival gates, and after a reception at BWI's fire station, were escorted to the camp. Members also assisted in some of the weekly activities of the camp, including a special carnival with activities run by the many volunteers.
