| Today, we made the 817 mile round trip to the Jasper Fire Department in Lee County, Virginia, to donate those items to them.
Three years ago, we became friends with the Jasper FD when we took a truckload of surplus fire hose and other equipment to them. We found that they were still in need of equipment, so we gladly made the trip back down there.
Lee County is as far west as you can go in Virginia. It is closer to eight other state capitals than it is to Richmond: Raleigh, North Carolina; Columbia, South Carolina; Atlanta, Georgia; Nashville, Tennessee; Charleston, West Virginia; Frankfort, Kentucky; Columbus, Ohio; and Indianapolis, Indiana.
We are glad that we were able to help them out, and we saw items and equipment that we had taken them three years ago in use on their apparatus during the visit today.
In 1955, the Aldie VFD was established by local citizens who started from scratch and raised funds to buy apparatus and equipment. During Hurricane Agnes in 1972, we lost almost everything we had due to flash flooding that struck Aldie. It was because of the generosity of our community and other fire departments across the DC Metro area that we were able to get back on our feet again. We feel honored to pay it forward to assist Jasper FD to improve their service to their community. They are great folks down there! |
