Last month the Hugo Firefighter’s Relief Association was glad to donate the purchasing of food and drink items to send overseas to a group of deployed firefighters. Relief Association member’s went out and purchased the food and delivered it to Hugo City Hall, where Yellow Ribbon Network volunteers helped package and ship it.
The Fire Department overseas is comprised mainly of guys and girls from the 148th Fighter Wing ANG out of Duluth and some from a Pittsburg Air National Guard Base. Duluth ANG Fire Department has about 30 some members. Pittsburgh has about 20 some members. They have a few active duty personnel to round out the department from Alaska, West Virginia, Texas. A little over half of the 148th Firefighters there are full-time Firefighters back home. Departments they work at are : Duluth, St. Paul, St. Cloud, Mpls, Richfield, MnANG/Duluth Airport, Adberdeen (SD), and St.Paul.
All of the items purchased were specifically requested by the deploy firefighters and we are glad to help make their time away from home a little easier and hope they all make it safely home.
