Fundraiser benefits volunteer fire departments across Nebraska

CAMBRIDGE, Neb. (KSNB) – Over 100 volunteer fireplace departments acquired donations in Cambridge on Friday afternoon. They had been courtesy of First State Financial institution and the Farnam Financial Growth Company.

The pair determined to raffle off a Polaris Ranger. Raffle ticket patrons bought to decide on which volunteer fireplace division bought the cash, and 198 departments bought checks from these donations.

Cambridge Volunteer Fireplace Chief Delaine Soucie stated the checks can be an enormous assist to all of the departments.

“With the worth of the wild land gear, and the bunker gear and the of all this fireplace gear, fireplace vans and stuff it’s going to assist the smaller communities, trigger our tax levy isn’t excessive sufficient that we will’t preserve our stuff pretty much as good as we want it,” Soucie stated.

In line with financial institution management, after the Street 702 fireplace, the workers needed to assist the place they might.

“This previous spring there have been a number of big fires in our space, and our workers had been anxious to do one thing as a company to indicate our appreciation for the volunteer fireplace departments,” Karen Widick with First State Financial institution Neighborhood Financial institution stated.

Some fireplace departments in Kansas additionally acquired cash.

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