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Tuesday, 16 March 2010 09:53 |
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Baja Mission 2010 Update
After Joel and Marcelo with Oscar from Bomberos De San Diego visited Tecate earlier this month, the board has decided to postpone our regular mission usually scheduled for March/April to Late May/June as a result of needing to coordinate with several agencies.
In the past few years we have been working with several groups and individuals around the southern California area in providing training that brought several departments throughout Baja together to train and work together.
Bomberos De San Diego (BSD)through Engineer Marcelo DeCasas has been invaluable in helping us continue our mission. Through Marcelo, Tijuana as well as other smaller departments have been participating in our annual training. Since our partnership, BSD, with recent addition of firefighters from the City of Chula Vista, has put on several training work shops, continuing to reinforce the message of safety and service. Equipment donated locally(SoCal) has been going through BSD and out to many departments in Mexico. It is easy to say that we would not be as successful in the region without them.
We are looking to regroup in May and continue to take the training to the next level. We are open to instructors and enterpreters who are interested in helping and any inquiries can come to us through the website. |
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Tuesday, 16 March 2010 09:24 |
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Since the initial quake in Haiti, FFCB has been working with local groups who are heading down to provide disaster assistance.
In the beginning, we worked with local firefighters and emergency workers who traveled to Haiti to help. We opened our equipment storage to provide what ever could be used. From medical supplies we have accumulated from various sources to Drink water paks and True North pak systems donated by True North Inc. ,they were able to go to Haiti and make a difference.
This local group has since formed it's own entity called Disaster Relief Northwest and has begun working in partnership with NOAH, a non profit based in Haiti. It's through NOAH that they are able to work in the country.
Firefighters Crossing Borders has agreed to provide fiscal responsibility as a IRS 501c3 non profit, which will allow donations to be tax deductible when given to Disaster Relief Northwest.
We can now take donations through the website and all donations to FFCB will continue to be used 100% toward mission operations. We do not compensate any director or instructor, and have no ongoing management expense other than maintaining our website. |
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Monday, 08 March 2010 10:44 |
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Joel recently visited the Bomberos in Tecate in preparation for our 2010 mission. We talked about the department assigning a liason who will be there no matter what and the chief assigned long time member and enterpreter Captain Martin Tovar aka "Tocho". With Captain Tovar in the lead we hope to streamline communications and quickly bring the departments in the Baja together for some great training. |
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Friday, 05 March 2010 15:54 |
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Our Mission slated for the first week in February 2010 for which we had coordinated 12 instructors and enterpreters from around the country was postponed. The first time we have ever had to make such a hard decision. But keeping the safety of all our instructors and listenning to their concerns we felt that this was the best course.
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