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- On Monday morning Nov.24th The IFRM received a call on behalf of the U.S. Department of State asking if we could assist on an urgent Firefighter equipment donation to the Country of Armenia . That evening our Board approved a delivery. In future we will allocate in Inventory section for such requests..
- On Nov.6th the IFRM took delivery of a much needed support vehicle. Immediately a call of a donation was made and the vehicle was put to use. The donation came from Chaska Fire Department. Thanks to all the staff at Allina Medical Transportation for the vehicle donation.
- The IFRM has been invited to be speakers at the first World Conference being held in Manchester, UK the topic is: the challenges we face in the USA as a charity. held between Oct.28th and Nov.1st 2008. We are excited with this opportunity.
- Sept 11th 2008 We received a copy of an article printed in the International Fire Fighter magazine. We first met them at FDIC-Indy08. Thanks for the coverage. We are already getting foreign responses.
- Sept 4th 2008 After a news article with FireRescue 1we have had a high caller month. All the way from more donations to requests too be TEAM members on next mission. Everything has been shipped.. Our TEAM leaves Sept.25 first for the Ukraine then to Moldova and finally to London.
- July 24th 2008 Today, with again, the help of Mr.Tim Zehnder - Program Manager @ South Central College in Mankato, Mn. They gathered a much needed compressor and many sets of turnouts, SCBA's etc. from area departments.
- July 15th 2008 we are now ready for shipments to the Ukraine and Moldova. hellmann worldwide logistics is handling the Ukraine shipment and the US Department of State is shipping the Moldova equipment. Another Team of Six men are going. Again through the support of Fire Departments all over we have Great equipment to help our fellow firefighters.
- May 22nd 2008. We are excited about preliminary talks with the State of Minnesota Colleges and Universities Dean of Transportation. The IFRM is looking for local, regional and national relationships to help collect Fire Department donations.
- May 21st 2008 Jack McLOUGHLIN of Fire Research Corporation FRC notified us that they received #5 cartons of Fire Gear from the Alpine Fire Department,NJ FireFighter:John Halbreich and his Chief have offered to help spread the word in their region... Thanks Guys....
- May 16th 2008.. The IFRM is very thankful for the donations from a local carton or packaging company who wishes to remain annonymous.
- On April 30th 2008 we received word though Steve Schwartz of Lion Apparel one of our founding supporters that hellmann worldwide logistics is looking to help with global shipping needs.
- We are excited about the much needed office and storage support offered through Rosenbauer General Division 5181 260th St., Wyoming MN, 55092
- Our Visit to FDIC 2008 was incredible. We have had many contacts and our message is growing stronger. It will take us some time to get through all the contacts we need to follow up on.
- On Friday April 4th 2008 we received word from the state Department that we can ship two containers toMoldova this year. We welcome that opportunity.
- Our sites are now set for 2008 on the Ukraine.We have had a lot of interest coming from this region and we are now doing some fact finding.
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