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D.C. Firefighters Burn Foundation Donates $80,000 to The Burn Center for 2008

On December 12th the D.C. Firefighters Burn Foundation hosted its annual Christmas Party for the patients and staff of The Burn Center. It has become an annual tradition for the Foundation to host a Christmas lunch for the staff of the Burn Center. This has also become the day that The Burn Center receives its annual Christmas present in the form of our annual donation from the D.C. Firefighters. This year’s donation far exceeds any in the past. Throughout 2008 the foundation donated $9,000 in new counter tops for the staff lounge, two Wii systems for the patients, and a new 42-inch television for the Rehab Gym. For Christmas the foundation purchased new stethoscopes for each of the 80 nurses and techs who work in The Burn Center. To end the year on a good note the Foundation presented the staff of The Burn Center with a check for $71,000. This money will be used as follows:

$28,000 New Televisions for each patient room on the Step Down Unit


$22,000 Burn Research


$10,000 The Cheryl Jordan Memorial Burn Rehabilitation Fund


$6,000 New Burn Carts for the Burn ICU


$5,000 Blanket and Fluid Warmer for the Step Down Unit

This year the Foundation created the Cheryl Jordan Memorial Burn Rehabilitation Fund. Cheryl Jordan was a long time therapist for The Burn Center and the late wife of Dr. Marion Jordan. Cheryl passed away last spring after a tough battle with Lou Gehrig’s Disease. Through this annual gift Cheryl’s’ hard work and long time commitment to The Burn Center and the rehabilitation of burn survivors can live on.

We would also like to give special thanks to members of the DCFD BBQ for providing an excellent lunch.
Hook and Ladder Brewery Does it again

Hook and Ladder has not only grown in its ability to market and sell a great beer, but also with firefighters nationwide as a philanthropy partner. To date Hook and Ladder has donated over $12,000 to the D.C. Firefighters Burn Foundation. In September Hook and Ladder presented the DCFFBF with a quarterly check of $1,906.60
Macy’s donates $40,000 to the D.C. Firefighters Burn Foundation

Over the past four years Macy’s has become a close friend and generous donor to the D.C. Firefighters Burn Foundation. Through the hard work and dedication of our close friend Tom Zaph we have received over $140,000 over the past several years. Once again Tom assisted the Foundation in receiving an annual gift or $40,000. Not only is Tom a close friend of the DCFFBF he is also a long time member of the board of directors for the New York Firefighters Burn Center Foundation.

Thanks to the Local 36 Softball Team!!

We would like to give a special thanks to the members of the Local 36 softball team for their generous donation of $1,800 to the foundation. This is the second year that the members of the team donated the profits from their softball tournament to the foundation.

2008 Children’s Burn Camp

Once again, this July the Foundation flew 8 kids to Union, CT for the Children’s Burn Camp.

Along with the kids, 5 members of the Foundation and two of our burn nurses spent a week in the woods of upstate Connecticut.

Ropes, archery, boating, swimming, kayaking, hiking, volleyball and dodging massive mosquitoes were just a few of the weeks activities.

This summer the camp provided a week of fun for approximately 80 young burn survivors ages 8-18 from D.C., New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, New Hampshire, Maine, Vermont, and as far away as Russia, Croatia, and Honduras.

The Foundation covers the cost of airfare, supplies for the camp, and any other expense for each child from the D.C. Metro Area.

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Nurses From Washington Hospital Center Burn Unit Go Through Fire Training

On June 27th members of the DC Firefighters Burn Foundation gave several nurses from the Washington Hospital Center's Burn Unit a chance to “get their hands dirty.” It was a cooperative agreement between the foundation and DCFD to let the nurses experience being a firefighter. About a dozen nurses donned turn out gear and went through the SCBA Maze, the flashover simulator and the burn building at the DCFD Training Academy.
4th Annual Day Camp for Young Burn Survivors Hosted at the Fireboat

In what has become a yearly tradition between the D.C. Firefighters Burn Foundation, The Burn Center, Children's Hospital and the D.C. Fireboat, several children were treated to rides on the John Glenn on Saturday June 7th. Members of the Foundation prepared lunch for the kids, all of which are young burn survivors ages 7-18 from D.C., Maryland, Virginia, and West Virginia. Once again U.S. Park Police assisted by giving a look at Eagle 1 and their K-9 Unit.

 
"I have no ambition in this world but one and that is to be a fireman. The position may, in the eyes of some appear to be a lowly one, but we who know the work which a fireman has to do, believe that his is a noble calling. There is a adage which says that nothing is destroyed except by fire... But, above all, our proudest endeavour is to save lives of men, the work of GOD himself. Under the impulse of such thoughts the nobility of the occupation thrills us and stimulates us to deeds of daring even to the supreme sacrifice. Such considerations may not strike the average mind but they are sufficient to fill to the limit, our ambition in life and to make us serve the general purpose of human society." -Edward F. Croaker, Fire Chief- FDNY 1898-1911.