Fire prevention · Response · Infrastructure

The fire is not the problem.Everything around it is.

A fire in a hillside home does not stay in that home. It spreads because of the lane too narrow for an apparatus, the supply too far to reach, the wiring inside the wall. Fire Shield works on those conditions, alongside the firefighters and residents who live with them.

What the record shows

IRS 501(c)(3) public charity SAM.gov registered entity Research led Medellín, Colombia

Structural fire site, hillside community, Medellín. Fire Shield Foundation field photograph.

Where we start · the published record

01 / 05

2,540structural fires recorded in Colombia, 2011 to 2020

432of them in informal settlements. Seventeen percent of the fires.

22,563people affected by those 432 fires, about 5,349 families

3,489informal dwellings destroyed

35people killed, and 275 injured

In an informal settlement, one fire took eight homes. Divide the record and each informal settlement fire destroyed eight dwellings and affected fifty two people. That ratio is the whole argument. A fire in one of these communities is never one household's problem, which is why prevention and infrastructure carry more weight here than anywhere with wide streets and working hydrants. Derived from the figures above: 3,489 dwellings and 22,563 people across 432 fires. Site level outcomes come from each community risk assessment.

Flórez Trujillo, Valencia and Avendaño-Uribe (2023), Fire TechnologyUNGRD national recordsColombia · 2011 to 2020doi:10.1007/s10694-023-01413-8

The mechanism

What a fire truck does not fix

Three causes start the fires we can explain. Six conditions decide what happens next. Buy an apparatus and you have changed none of the nine.

Causes of ignition

Electrical42%

Cooking and open flame26%

Stored combustibles12%

Share of informal settlement fires with a recorded cause. Only 11.5 percent have one; 88.5 percent were filed as undetermined or unknown. Of the fires that were explained, these three account for 80 percent.

One ignition

in one home

Likely outcome

More than one home

Illustrative. Toggle the state above.

Conditions that decide the outcome

How we work on it

Three pillars, because none of them works alone

Prevention lowers the odds. Response decides what happens in the first minutes. Infrastructure decides whether the response can even arrive. Each one carries the other two.

01

Fire prevention

Reduce the chance a fire starts at all, and prepare the household for the one that does.

Electrical and cooking safety, built for these homes
Community risk assessment, neighborhood by neighborhood
Smoke detection and evacuation planning

02

Response

Strengthen what firefighters and residents can actually do when the call comes.

Training and knowledge transfer that stays
Equipment that can be maintained locally
International fire service cooperation

03

Infrastructure

Change the physical conditions that turn one ignition into a block.

Water access and strategic supply points
Emergency access and hillside mobility
GIS mapping and pre-incident planning

Where we started

Why Medellín

A city recognized for solving hard urban problems through planning and community engagement, with hillside communities that present some of the most difficult fire conditions anywhere. That combination of capability and difficulty is what a model needs if it is going to be worth copying.

Medellín is not our destination. It is our starting point.

Metrocable station in Medellin, with hillside neighbourhoods beyond

Impact framework

The 30 · 30 · 30 initiative

Targets, not results Baselines being established

30%

Faster emergency response

Risk mapping, emergency access, pre-incident planning, water supply and coordination.

30%

Less fire spread

Prevention education, electrical safety, safer cooking, spacing, construction and fire breaks.

30%

Fewer deaths

Smoke detection, early warning, preparedness, faster response and stronger crews.

Goals for the long run, not achieved results. They exist so that programs, research, partnerships and investment can be organized around numbers we expect to be held to. Progress is published only once a baseline exists.

Core program

Fire Service Exchange

Firefighters learning from firefighters

Departments everywhere face the same fundamentals with very different terrain, staffing, apparatus and budget. Fire Shield is the bridge, not a replacement for either department, and not a channel for exporting an American model.

U.S. fire departmentTraining · SOPs · experience

Fire Shield FoundationConnector · facilitator

International fire service partnerTerrain · local practice

Local communitiesCapability that stays

Knowledge→Adaptation→Capability→Resilience

Fire resilience requires partnership

Six ways in, and they are not interchangeable. Pick the one that matches what you have.

Fire departmentsJoin the exchange →
Corporate partnersBecome a partner →
Universities and researchersCollaborate →

Community organizationsWork with us →
Firefighters and professionalsVolunteer expertise →
Government agenciesCoordinate with us →

Debris and burned material on a hillside site in Medellin

Our story

From the firehouse to the community

Fire Shield Foundation was founded by Lamar W. Sullivan, whose background includes service as a U.S. Army firefighter and medic and as a municipal firefighter, together with project management and graduate level research.

Years in the fire service, set against what he saw in Medellín's hillside communities, produced one question: what happens when proven fire service knowledge meets a place where the usual fire protection assumptions do not hold?

This is not about one firefighter. It is about connecting the people who can solve it together.

Mission

To strengthen community fire resilience by working with local partners to improve prevention, enhance infrastructure and support response capabilities in high risk communities through education, research, collaboration and sustainable implementation.

Vision

A world where every community, regardless of geography or economic conditions, has the knowledge, infrastructure and emergency response capabilities needed to prevent devastating fires, protect lives and recover more quickly from disasters.

Founding board

Lamar W. Sullivan President and Executive DirectorFounder. Strategic leadership, partnerships and mission oversight. Former U.S. Army firefighter and medic and municipal firefighter.
Ricardo Millien Vice President and Operations DirectorFire crew chief with Amentum, directing initial attack, incident command and department training programs. Business administration and management background.
Geoff Atack Secretary and TreasurerMore than forty years in marketing and communications across London, Atlanta, Miami and Greensboro. Board service with three North Carolina nonprofits and recipient of the North Carolina Governor's Award for Lifetime Achievement in Volunteer Service.
Abri Tate, SHRM-CP Community Outreach and Partnerships DirectorPeople and organizational leader at a 500 person global health technology company, with Spanish language partnership experience across Latin American teams.
James R. Alli Executive Technical AdvisorFire captain, instructor and emergency management professional with more than 25 years of domestic and international fire service, including ARFF, hazmat command and community risk assessment. Fire Officer 4, Fire Instructor 3, Fire Inspector 2.

From the field

All updates on Instagram →

Burned remains of homes on a hillside in Medellín

Medellín · Field

What one hillside fire leaves behind

Fire Shield founder meeting Greensboro Fire Department leadership

Exchange · Greensboro

Greensboro Fire Department joins as first exchange partner

Smoke rising from the hillside neighborhoods of Medellín

Medellín · Field

Seen from across the valley: a fire in the comunas

The posts already being written for social media get a permanent home here, where a funder can find them.

Our work

Seven program areas, three pillars

Each one is here because the research points to it. None of them is here because it is easy to fund.

Pillar 01

Fire prevention

Reduce the chance of ignition and prepare the household.

Pillar 02

Response

Strengthen what crews and residents can do.

Pillar 03

Infrastructure

Change the physical conditions around the fire.

Fire prevention

Community fire prevention

Fire safety education built around the conditions residents actually live with, not a generic curriculum. Electrical safety, cooking safety, stored combustibles, smoke detection, home safety checks and school programs, to be delivered in Spanish by people the community recognizes.

In development

Fire prevention

Community risk assessment

Working with residents and the local fire service to document hazards, access constraints, water resources, evacuation routes and operational concerns, neighborhood by neighborhood. The assessment is the document every other program is planned from.

Active in Medellín

Response

Firefighter training

Connecting firefighters with training, technical knowledge, operational practice and specialist expertise, through the Fire Service Exchange and through direct instruction where capacity allows. Training that transfers to the next crew, not a single visit.

First partner secured

Response

Equipment and resources

Tools, PPE, equipment and technology that fit the terrain and can be serviced locally. Equipment nobody can maintain is a donation to a storage room.

In development

Infrastructure

GIS and pre-incident planning

Mapping and field data so crews understand a community before the emergency rather than during it: access routes, staging points, water sources, structure density, and the specific lanes an apparatus cannot enter.

In development

Infrastructure

Water and infrastructure

Practical ways to improve water access, equipment positioning and emergency access: strategic water points, decentralized equipment caches, hillside mobility, and fire protection that survives without a maintenance budget behind it.

Proposal stage

All three

Research and data

Incident data, published research, engineering principles, field assessment and program evaluation, used to choose interventions and then to test whether they worked. This is also what makes the 30 · 30 · 30 targets checkable rather than decorative.

Active

Developing

Water and wildland resilience

Medellín carries structural, wildland and wildland urban interface risk at the same time. More than 400 hectares of forest are lost to fire each year around the Aburrá Valley, and the average wildland response time is about 60 minutes, because the urban water network does not reach the higher slopes.

Water Shield is a climate adaptation program designed by firefighters of the Cuerpo Oficial de Bomberos de Medellín: a decentralized network of ten strategic water points holding 50,000 gallons, five equipment warehouses on the hills, a hillside 4x4 fleet, an aerial bucket agreement, and community wildland brigades of ten trained volunteers per sector. Its target is response in under 15 minutes and 40 percent fewer hectares burned.

Figures from the Water Shield program proposal, July 2026. Fire Shield is in conversation with the program's authors about how the two efforts fit together.

Ten strategic water points, 50,000 gallons, filled by EPM, rural aqueducts and rainwater
Five shield warehouses: Santa Elena, AltaVista, San Cristóbal, the guardian hills, Alto de Las Palmas
Hillside fleet: two wildland tankers, four rapid attack pickups, two UTVs
Fifty annual helicopter bucket hours, coordinated with SIATA early warning
Community brigades: ten volunteers per sector, 40 hour training, custody of warehouse keys
Four stage protocol: community report, parallel activation, first response under 10 minutes, fleet under 15

Which pillar does your organization touch?

We will tell you plainly where a contribution lands and how it gets reported.

Medellín, Colombia

Our starting point and proving ground

A city recognized for solving hard urban problems, with hillside communities that present some of the most difficult fire conditions anywhere.

Burned material on a hillside site in Medellin

From the field

Photographs and video recorded by the Fire Shield team in Medellín. Nothing on this page is staged or stock.

Residents carrying water to a fire before crews can reach the block · Medellín · 2026

A column of black smoke rising from the hillside neighborhoods of Medellín — A structural fire in the hillside comunas, seen from across the valley · Medellín · 2026

The same fire, minutes later · Medellín · 2026

Residents standing above a burned hillside lot — Residents return to the site · Medellín · 2026

Videos play silently. Use the controls for sound. Neighborhoods are not named, to protect residents' privacy.

Conditions on the ground

What makes a hillside fire different

These are not abstract risk factors. They are the reasons a crew arrives and cannot bring an apparatus close to the fire, or arrives and finds no water within reach.

Field observations from Fire Shield community assessments in Medellín, 2026. Findings for each site are recorded in that community's risk assessment.

01High housing density
02Closely spaced structures
03Steep terrain
04Narrow roads and stairways
05Limited apparatus access
06Limited water availability
07Informal electrical systems
08Open flame cooking
09Mixed combustible construction
10Difficult evacuation routes
11Limited emergency resources

Every figure on this site is sourced. The full reference list and the resource center live on their own page.

Core program

Fire Service Exchange

Firefighters learning from firefighters

Designed as a standing program rather than a donation drive. Knowledge moves in both directions, and the capability stays where it is needed.

The philosophy

Not exporting a model. Comparing conditions.

Departments face the same fundamentals everywhere: water on the fire, people out of the building, arriving in time. What differs is terrain, staffing, apparatus, water infrastructure, construction and budget.

A tactic that works on a wide suburban street can be impossible on a hillside reached by a lane two meters across. So the exchange starts with firefighters describing their own conditions to each other, and only then decides what is worth adapting.

Knowledge→Adaptation→Capability→Resilience

What departments exchange

01Training programs
02Operational knowledge
03SOPs and best practice
04Pre-incident planning
05GIS and mapping practice
06Prevention strategy
07Water supply operations
08Incident command
09Equipment knowledge
10Community risk reduction
11Lessons from major incidents

How the exchange is structured

Fire Shield convenes and documents. It does not replace either department and it does not speak for either one. Greensboro Fire Department is the first U.S. partner.

01

U.S. fire department

Training capacity, documented procedure, equipment knowledge, incident experience.

02

Fire Shield

Convenes, translates, handles logistics, documents what was exchanged so it is repeatable.

03

Local partner

Terrain knowledge, local practice, and the judgment about what will actually work.

04

Communities

Faster, better prepared response from a department that keeps the capability.

First exchange partner

Greensboro Fire Department

Fire Shield founder Lamar W. Sullivan with Greensboro Fire Department leadership · Greensboro, North Carolina · 2026

Greensboro is the first department to sit down with Fire Shield and work through what an exchange with Medellín would look like in practice: which training programs travel, which procedures need adapting to hillside conditions, and what the department gains in return.

Lamar W. Sullivan in front of a Greensboro Fire Department engine

At a Greensboro Fire Department station · 2026

Built to scale

One pairing becomes a network

U.S. department ⇄ Colombian departmentPhase 1

U.S. department ⇄ Latin American departmentPhase 2

A standing multilateral networkPhase 3

The value to a funder is not that one department helped one city. It is that Fire Shield built a repeatable mechanism for moving fire service knowledge across borders.

Is your department interested?

Start with a conversation about your own conditions and capacity. No commitment on the first call.

Partners

Fire resilience requires partnership

Nobody does this alone. Here is who is at the table, and further down, how to join them.

Who we work with

Logos shown with written approval

Greensboro Fire DepartmentFire service partner · North Carolina

Universidad Tecnológica de PereiraResearch partner · Colombia

Cuerpo Oficial de Bomberos de MedellínWater Shield program · Medellín

IPSL Global EngagementService learning partner · Westminster University, Utah

Your organization
belongs here.

What each partner brings

Fire services

Training, operational expertise, equipment knowledge and mentorship.

Government

Infrastructure, policy, emergency management and coordination.

Communities

Local knowledge, participation, prevention and preparedness.

Universities

Research, engineering, data analysis, GIS and evaluation.

Private sector

Technology, equipment, logistics, expertise and funding.

NGOs and foundations

Community access, humanitarian expertise, funding and program collaboration.

Seen who is here. Now join them.

Seven ways in, matched to what you have to offer.

Resources

Sources, learning and public education

Where our figures come from, what we publish, and material residents and partners can use today.

Research and technical references

What the work is built on

Every source is named with its contribution stated, so anyone can check the reasoning.

Source	Contribution	Type
Flórez Trujillo, D. F., Valencia, A., Avendaño-Uribe, B. (2023). Informal Settlement Fires in Colombia. Fire Technology. doi:10.1007/s10694-023-01413-8	Distills UNGRD national records, 2011 to 2020: 2,540 structural fire events, 432 in informal settlements, 22,563 people affected, 3,489 dwellings destroyed, 35 deaths, 275 injuries. Reports that 88.5 percent of informal settlement fire causes were filed as undetermined or unknown, and that among the 11.5 percent explained, electrical problems (42 percent), food preparation (26 percent) and storage of materials (12 percent) lead. Every headline figure on this site comes from this paper. Scope is national, not Medellín specific.	Paper
Flórez Trujillo, D. F. (2024). Simulación computacional del incendio en una vivienda informal colombiana de la región andina mediante Fire Dynamic Simulator. Master's thesis, Universidad Tecnológica de Pereira. Read excerpts →	Computational simulation of fire growth and spread inside an informal Andean dwelling, the physical basis for how fast one ignition becomes a block.	Thesis
Flórez Trujillo, D. F. et al. (2023). Numerical simulation of an informal dwelling fire in the Colombian context. LACCEI 2023. Proceedings →	Conference presentation of the simulation work and its implications for safety strategy in informal settlements.	Paper
Kindling, Fire Safety Research Institute. Fire safety in informal and humanitarian settlements. Project page →	Fire behavior, ignition and spread in informal settlements. Supports the case for integrating prevention, infrastructure and response rather than treating them separately.	Project
Westminster University graduate research, IPSL Global Engagement. Program page →	Graduate research supporting implementation, evaluation, GIS analysis and a community fire resilience model that can be adapted elsewhere.	Thesis
National Fire Protection Association. nfpa.org →	Standards and practice for fire prevention, life safety, community risk reduction and emergency response.	Standard
U.S. Fire Administration, FEMA. usfa.fema.gov →	Community risk reduction methodology, firefighter safety guidance and public education resources.	Agency
International Association of Fire Chiefs. iafc.org →	Leadership principles, emergency management practice and operational guidance for modern fire services.	Body
Fire Shield field assessments, Medellín. See the field →	Local mapping, stakeholder engagement and community risk assessments in pilot communities, used to test whether the published findings hold on the ground.	Field

Listing a source does not imply affiliation with, or endorsement by, that organization.

Resource center

Grows as material is published

Fire Shield research

Original analysis and working papers.

Read the thesis brief →

Case studies

Real incidents and what they taught.

From the field →

Risk assessments

Field observations by neighborhood.

Conditions on the ground →

GIS and mapping

Geographic fire risk information.

GIS and pre-incident planning →

Reports

External fire service and academic work.

Read the 2023 paper →

Training resources

Material for crews and partners.

Fire Service Exchange →

Community resources

Bilingual prevention material.

Public education →

The research we build on

Informal Settlement Fires in Colombia

The figures on this site come from a 2023 peer reviewed paper in Fire Technology, lead authored by Diego Fernando Flórez Trujillo of the Universidad Tecnológica de Pereira with co-authors at the University of Canterbury. It distills Colombia's national disaster records for 2011 to 2020 and is the first systematic account of informal settlement fires in the country. His follow on work simulates how fire grows inside an informal Andean dwelling built from guadua bamboo and esterilla, which is the physical basis for how fast one ignition becomes a block.

Citing published research does not imply the authors' or the university's endorsement of Fire Shield.

Documents

Informal Settlement Fires in Colombia, Fire Technology, 2023Open at publisher →
The 2024 thesis in fifteen minutes, reading versionRead →
Master's thesis, Universidad Tecnológica de Pereira, 2024Open →
Water Shield program proposal, Medellín, July 2026Read →
Water Shield deck, English and SpanishView slides →
Fire Shield Foundation overview deckView slides →
Fire Shield capability statementOpen →
Numerical simulation of an informal dwelling fire, LACCEI 2023Open at LACCEI →

Every document opens in the Fire Shield documents room, where the files can also be downloaded.

Public education

Fire safety for families and schools

Short bilingual videos and practical guides, built for the homes people actually live in.

Animated short · 2 to 3 minIn production

Cooking safety

Animated short · 2 to 3 minIn production

Electrical safety

Animated short · 2 to 3 minIn production

Getting out safely

Need an extinguisher?

Write to lamars@fireshieldfoundation.org with your neighborhood and we coordinate delivery and a short demonstration through the community brigade.

Need a smoke detector?

Detectors are distributed and installed during community prevention sessions. Email us to have your block included.

Tell us about your neighborhood

A short survey on access, water and hazards where you live. It feeds the community risk assessment directly.

Request the survey

Questions people ask

Is Fire Shield a fire department?No. We work with fire departments and communities. We do not respond to emergencies. In an emergency in Colombia call 123.

Is my donation tax deductible?Fire Shield Foundation, Inc. is a U.S. 501(c)(3) public charity. Contributions are tax deductible to the extent permitted by law. Direct transfers need an emailed confirmation for a receipt.

Can I give in pesos?Yes. There is a Colombian bank account for COP and a U.S. account, PayPal and Zelle for USD. See the donate section.

Where do the numbers on this site come from?From a peer reviewed 2023 paper in Fire Technology that distills Colombia's national disaster records (UNGRD) for 2011 to 2020. It is national data, not Medellín specific, and we say so wherever it appears. Read the paper.

Can my fire department take part?Yes, through the Fire Service Exchange. It starts with a conversation about your conditions and capacity. No commitment on the first call.

Do you use my photographs or my community's name?Only with written permission on file. Partner names and logos appear only after formal approval.

Impact

This page exists before the numbers do

Every measure shows the record that produces it and its current status, and the status means what it says.

Reporting commitment

Figures update on a quarterly basis once programs are running. Where a number changes, the superseded version stays available in the report archive.

What we track

ReportingIn progressNot started

Measure	Record behind it	To date	Status
Communities assessed	Field assessment on file	—	Not started
Residents reached	Session attendance records	—	Not started
Firefighters trained	Certificates issued	—	Not started
Training hours delivered	Instructor logs	—	Not started
Fire departments engaged	Signed exchange agreements	1	In progress
Equipment donated	Receipt and handover records	—	Not started
Water resources identified	GIS layer, verified on site	—	In progress
Structures mapped	GIS layer	—	In progress
Community fire plans developed	Plan document, community signed	—	Not started
International partnerships created	Written agreement in place	4	Reporting

Each row names the record that produces the number: an assessment on file, an attendance sheet, a certificate issued, a signed agreement, a verified GIS layer. Nothing is counted twice, nothing is estimated, and a measure with no record behind it stays at zero until there is one.

Progress against the targets

No percentage is published here until a baseline exists to measure it against.

Emergency response timeBaseline: 2026 assessmentTarget −30%Measuring

Fire spread rate and severityBaseline: 2026 assessmentTarget −30%Measuring

Fire related deathsBaseline: 2026 assessmentTarget −30%Measuring

Baselines have to be established with the local fire service and a research partner before a percentage means anything. Baseline work began in Medellín in 2026.

Funding a measure on this page

Pick a row. We will tell you what it costs to move it and what evidence comes back.

Get involved

Six ways in, and they are not interchangeable

Pick the one that matches what you actually have to offer. Each route goes to a different conversation.

01

Fire departments

Share training, operational knowledge, SOPs, equipment and expertise through the Fire Service Exchange.

02

Corporate partners

Support equipment, technology, transportation, infrastructure or program funding. We will tell you which pillar it lands in and how it gets reported.

Become a partner

03

Universities and researchers

Collaborate on research, GIS, engineering, data analysis and evaluation. We especially need partners to help establish the baselines behind the targets, and there is a specific equipment and compute list below.

Collaborate

04

Community organizations

Help identify needs and implement solutions that fit local conditions. Residents are part of fire protection, not recipients of it.

Work with us

05

Firefighters and professionals

Contribute instruction, GIS, engineering, logistics, translation or grant writing. Remote contribution is real contribution.

Volunteer expertise

06

Volunteer firefighters

Join a community brigade or a partner department's volunteer program. Training, equipment and the terms of service are set with the local fire service. Write to us and we match you with the nearest program.

Become a volunteer firefighter

07

Government agencies

Coordinate on infrastructure, emergency management, policy and access to the communities that carry the most risk.

Coordinate with us

For laboratories, companies and universities

What the research actually needs

The fire science behind this work is done at a Colombian public university on a budget that cannot buy the instruments. These are the specific gaps.

01

Instruments and bench testing

High temperature sensors, heat flux transducers, thin skin calorimeters, thermographic equipment and data acquisition systems. Access to cone calorimetry or a fire propagation apparatus for material pyrolysis characterization. Donated or loaned hardware moves this immediately.

02

Software and compute

Licensing for fire simulation tools such as PyroSim, and time on high performance or cloud computing to run multi mesh CFD simulations of dwelling fires. A company with spare compute can fund a year of modeling for very little.

03

Field validation and students

Funding for test specimens and field campaigns in vulnerable communities, open access publishing, and co advised thesis projects, research stays and virtual mentorship for undergraduate and graduate engineering students. Standardized post incident investigation protocols are the single most requested item, because 88.5 percent of these fires currently have no recorded cause.

Priorities identified in conversation with fire researchers at Universidad Tecnológica de Pereira, September 2026. Joint grant proposals with bodies such as NIST or NFPA, equipment donations and technical exchanges are the three routes that help most.

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Your support builds capability

Here is where the money goes and what it buys. Fire Shield Foundation, Inc. is a U.S. 501(c)(3) public charity and contributions are tax deductible to the extent permitted by law.

Fire prevention and educationPillar 01
Community preparednessPillar 01
Water and infrastructurePillar 03
GIS and mappingPillar 03
Firefighter trainingPillar 02
Tools and equipmentPillar 02
Research and evaluationAll three

Named campaigns

First campaign · ground zero

Comuna 3, Manrique

The first community Fire Shield works in end to end: assessment, prevention, mapping, brigade equipment and response. Comuna 3 sits on the northeastern slopes of Medellín, where dense self built housing, steep lanes and limited water access make it one of the city's highest fire risk areas. The campaign funds the community risk assessment, prevention sessions in Spanish, water point mapping, and the equipment and training for a community brigade.

Every gift to this campaign stays in Comuna 3

Equip a community brigade

Helmets, gloves, hose, nozzles, extinguishers and radios for a ten person volunteer brigade, plus the training to use them.

Fund a training program

Instructor time, materials and certification for one cohort of firefighters through the Fire Service Exchange.

Fund a risk assessment

A full field assessment of one community: hazards, access, water, structures and evacuation routes, mapped in GIS and shared with the local fire service.

Help equip a department

Tools, PPE and technology that a partner fire department can maintain locally, chosen with the crews who will use them.

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