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About The Program

The International Association of Fire Fighters (IAFF) is the largest national sponsor of the Muscular Dystrophy Association (MDA).  More than 265,000 members of the IAFF in the United States and Canada are pledged to saving lives, both as fire fighters and paramedics and as the strongest campaigners for the worldwide research efforts of MDA to eradicate 40 neuromuscular diseases.  The contributions of the fire fighters also go towards MDA’s summer camps for children, professional and public health education, and other programs.

As the greatest contributor to MDA, fire fighters are everywhere in the efforts of MDA to raise money.  The IAFF is the biggest sponsor of MDA’s Labor Day Telethon and it contributed a record breaking $20 million in year 2004 as a consequence of the overwhelming enthusiasm and contribution of tens and thousands of fire fighters and paramedics across the US and Canada.  The IAFF raised this amount throughout the entire year through their passionate Fill the Boot campaigns, in which fire fighters greet motorists, shoppers and others and ask them to donate money to MDA.  This year’s upcoming IAFF-MDA events are expected to raise even more to cure these crushing illnesses.

Beacon IAFF Local 3490 has been participating in this program through an annual Fill-The-Boot event since 2003, with the exception of 2005. In just three years of participating, the union has raised over $15,000! Please see below for our next Fill-The-Boot and come out to support!

IAFF 3490 IAFF-MDA Fill-the-Boot 2007

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Come out and Support in September 2007. Thanks for all the support in our 2006 Fill-the-Boot!

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