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): 703-280-0694
Media Information Line: 703-324-3000
Email: fire-rescue.Pa-LSE@fairfaxcounty.gov
Website: www.fairfaxcounty.gov/fire

8/21/2008

Firefighters Give Away Backpacks and School Supplies

Fairfax County firefighters and paramedics and local businesses will distribute backpacks and school supplies at 1 p.m., Wednesday, August 27, at Penn Daw Fire and Rescue Station 11.

The Fairfax County Fire and Rescue Department, the Progressive Firefighters of Fairfax County, Inc., and the Fairfax County Professional Fire Fighters and Paramedics, IAFF Local 2068, have been collecting backpacks and school supplies for several weeks and will provide them to school children in need in Fairfax County and the Washington Metropolitan Area. Through generous donations and support from area businesses, including BearingPoint Inc., Nationwide Credit Corporation, Promax Management Inc., and Aluminum Cans for Burned Children, over 650 backpacks were collected and filled with school supplies.

Firefighters will coordinate the distribution of the backpacks and school supplies to Fairfax County public school administrators and community organizations. For more information, please contact Lieutenant Willie Bailey at 571-641-0036.

Firefighters and school officials will be available for interviews.

For more information, call Daniel L. Schmidt or Lieutenant Raúl G. Castillo, 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.