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First Responders Relief Fund

Here is a new foundation called First Responders Foundation dedicated to helping the gulf coast firefighters that were affected by the hurricanes. They have set up a fund called the First Responders Relief Fund.

Here is what they are about:

The first responders in the gulf states need our help. Most, 80% in New Orleans and 50% in Biloxi alone, lost their homes - their families have been separated, forced to evacuate from everything they owned and loved. Still, our firefighters, nurses, EMTs, and the preponderance of law enforcement officers stayed at their stations. They held what ground they could, and helped as many as possible through those terrible days and the aftermath. Now, the Committee below (in formation) has come together to ask your help in relieving these great Americans whose courage and commitment is inspirational:

Here is how to help:

Join our "Put Help in the Helmet" Crusade on the last two days in September and the first two days in October (or any date that might be convenient for you). We are asking every fire department and police department, ambulance service and hospital, to permit their members to go to the shopping malls, churches, and traffic lights in America to pass the helmet or hat for our first responders who have suffered material loss in Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama. We are asking you to come together in effort to relieve our firefighters, law enforcement officers, nurses, and EMTs - those who have suffered significant material loss, and who have been qualified as "in need" through the listing program of FEMA and their home base departments, services, and hospitals.

I can't say it any better than they did. Let's help those in need. If nothing else, spread the word.

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