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Fairfax County Fire and Rescue Department
4100 Chain Bridge Rd, Fairfax, Virginia 22030
Phone: 703-246-3801, TTY: 711 and Fax:703-385-1687
Duty PIO (Weekends/After-hours): 703-877-3702
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News Release 11-65
Date: August 30, 2011
Firefighters Distribute Backpacks and School Supplies
Who: Fairfax County Fire and Rescue Department
What: Firefighters Distribute Backpacks and School Supplies
Where: Penn Daw Fire and Rescue Station 11, Penn
Daw
6624
Hulvey Terrace, Alexandria, Virginia 22306
When: 11 a.m., Thursday, September 1, 2011
Fairfax County firefighters will distribute backpacks and school
supplies at 11 a.m., Thursday, September 1, at Fire and Rescue Station
11, Penn Daw.
Department personnel, the Progressive Firefighters of Fairfax County,
Inc., the Fairfax County Professional Firefighters and Paramedics, Local
2068, and the Department of Human resources have been collecting
backpacks and school supplies for several weeks and will distribute them
to school children in Fairfax County and the Washington Metropolitan
Area. Through generous donations and support from area businesses,
including Nationwide Credit Corporation, Promax Management, Inc.,
Aluminum Cans for Burned Children, and the Rotary Club of Tysons Corner,
over 2,000 backpacks have been collected and filled with school supplies,
an increase of 1,000 from last year.
Firefighters will coordinate the distribution of the backpacks to
various Fairfax County public school administrators and local shelters.
For more information, please contact Captain Willie Bailey at
703-246-3801.
Firefighters and school officials will be available for interviews.
For more information, call Daniel L. Schmidt or Captain I William Moreland, Fairfax County Fire and Rescue Department, 703-246-3801 and TTY: 711. Fairfax County is committed to nondiscrimination on the basis of disability in all county programs, services and activities. Reasonable accommodations will be provided upon request.
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