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"Fire fighters are my heroes. They have given selflessly of their time and resources to help MDA, and it never ceases to gratify me that so many of you care so much about “my kids.”
- Jerry Lewis
MDA Chairman
This year the Professional Firefighters of Keene Local 3265 raised over $3,700 for the Muscular Dystrophy Association!!!
 The Professional Firefighters of Keene are an important sponsor of the Muscular Dystrophy Association (MDA). Each year we campaign for the worldwide research efforts of MDA to eradicate 40 neuromuscular diseases. Your contributions directly go towards MDA’s summer camps for children, professional and public health education, and other programs. The effort put forth by the Professional Firefighters of Keene is only part of a greater effort by firefighters worldwide. The International Association of Firefighters (IAFF) is the biggest sponsor of MDA’s Labor Day Telethon and contributed a record breaking $23.5 million in year 2006 as a consequence of the overwhelming enthusiasm and contribution of tens and thousands of fire fighters and paramedics across the US and Canada. IAFF members have donated nearly $275 million to MDA since 1954.
Firefighters Jarrod Houston and Dan Nowill stand ready to accept donations.
 The marriage between the devotion of fire fighters with the cause of MDA has emerged as one of the strongest examples of selflessness in the history of charity, and IAFF General President Harold A. Schaitberger is committed to elevating this tradition to even higher levels. The IAFF is designing a plan to further expand and enhance the IAFF’s relationship and role with MDA. Over the ensuing decades, the commitment of the professional fire fighters to the cause of MDA has further elevated their status as extraordinary professionals who not only put their lives at stake to save citizens from ruthless flames, but also give their time to save the lives of the innocent from equally merciless neuromuscular diseases. The devotion of IAFF members has not only helped MDA, but also united fire fighters in a community where they share their team strength and brotherhood to give better meaning to lives and hope for the future.
Firefighter Jeremy LaPlante holds a boot for donations.
For more information on the MDA go to http://www.mda.org/
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Welcome home FF Buddy Olson. Thank you for your service to our country.
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