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Firefighters MC Club Delivers Toys to Hospital
Any time that a child has to spend in the hospital is difficult, but it is especially difficult around the holidays. That is why the Fire and Iron Firefighters Motorcycle Club held a toy drive just priorto the holiday season and was able to delivera substantial amount of toys to children hospitalized during the holidays. The South Shore chapterof Fire and Iron MC, Station-144, has had a long partnership with Signature Healthcare Brockton (MA)Hospital donating toys, and funds to theirpediatric unit. Each May, the club holds a motorcycle run which starts and ends at the hospital, with all proceeds going directly to the pediatric unit. Typically, Station 144 makes semi-annual donations of toys to the hospital. Formore information on the Fire and Iron Firefighters Motorcycle Club, visit theirwebsite at: www.fireandiron.com.
niques and collaborate with UFD members. As they did not have access to a live burn training facility in their home country, they used the trip to engage in real-time intensive training as well as meet and ask questions of their volunteer firefighter counterparts in the United States.
Atotal of 16 volunteer firefighters visited in 2011, and when they returned home they shared their experiences with their fellow first responders. Return visits were made in 2015 and 2017, with new groups of firefighters coming each time. Afourth trip was cancelled in 2020 due to the Covid-19 pandemic. This years visit served as the rescheduling of that fourth trip.
- Submitted by Matthew Reid
