Fill The Boot

This week/ weekend in Irving is the Fill the Boot campaign benefiting Jerry's Kids and the Muscular Dystrophy Association. Last year IFD raised over $87,000 for MDA and this year they hope to top that donation. Gregg was asked to help out with the marathon fundraising this year and was out working Thursday and Friday in addition to being on shift Wednesday and today. Basically what happens is the guys on duty are stationed at various street corners around Irving and they walk up and down these streets with boots collecting money from people as they drive by.

Yesterday after I got off work I went to hangout with Gregg on his street corner. It was HOT out there and even hotter on the pavement where the guys were walking. Gregg had a tent set up where they could take a break when needed and spent his time walking around emptying out the boots into the bucket where they collected all the money and giving out water to all the tired guys. It was a lot of fun to get to see the firemen at work raising money for such a worthy cause and to see how many good people there are in the world that will roll down their window and give a dollar or two!

Fire Departments all over the country pick a week to collect money for MDA each year and I urge you to donate to these guys and the awesome cause that they are collecting for!