Hernando firefighters support MDA with Fill the Boot drive
The Hernando Fire Department is showing its support for the Muscular Dystrophy Association.
Fire department members are participating in the annual Fill the Boot fundraising campaign to help kids and adults with muscular dystrophy, ALS and related muscle-debilitating diseases.
Continuing a more than 60-year tradition, firefighters from Hernando Fire Department hit storefronts with boots in hand asking pedestrians, motorists, customers and other passersby to make a donation to MDA on July 21 at Kroger and Walmart.
“We are thrilled to be working with the Hernando Fire Department for another year of Fill the Boot to help provide the funds needed to find treatments and cures for muscular dystrophy, ALS and related diseases that severely limit strength and mobility,” fundraising coordinator Misteria DeRung said. “We know that their devotion to our families will make this year’s drive a success.”
Funds raised through Hernando Fill the Boot events in 2018 help kids and adults with muscular dystrophy and related muscle-debilitating diseases live longer and grow stronger.
Contributions also help fund re-
search and life-enhancing programs such as Care Centers, including the MDA Care Center at Wesley Neurology and Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital in Memphis. They also help send local kids to “the best week of the year” at MDA summer camp at YMCA Camp Widjiwagan at no cost to their families.
“The firefighters at Hernando FIre Department work hard every year for MDA," said Marshel Berry, deputy chief of the Hernando Fire Department & EMS. "This will be the best year ever. Thank you to the citizens of Hernando for donating.”