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Although the decommissioned gear is in good condition and suitable for service, it is timed-out for use in Canada after 10 years. Without organizations like Firefighters Without Borders Canada, the gear – with a replacement value in the hundreds of thousands of dollars – would likely end up in a landfill.
FWB Canada President Bob Dubbert said the Vancouver-based charity has carried out 19 firefighting training missions overseas. Over the years, the organization has sent over 100 fire trucks and ambulances overseas. Four thousand tons of gear has been shipped. FWB Canada has also donated gear to several Canadian First Nations due to more relaxed regulations in those jurisdictions. Dubbert said most of the gear is in pristine condition, adding some of it has seen hard use with good maintenance.
kept it in storage. the family is trying to give back all his war stuff but he has a bill of $500 to pay. right. because sadly, this 69-year-old veteran, vietnam vet had built up some medical bills apparently during the course of his life, as you can imagine, so he this bill for storage went unpaid and he actually had two purple hearts in there from his service so his family would like him to have those at his funeral, to be buried with him and the storage company that ironically is named two men with big hearts moving and storage, says, you know, a bill is a bill. where s our $500? they need their money before they re going to allow these purple hearts out. right. now, here s where our viewers have gotten involved. and that is we told folks about this story just in the last hour and since then, the e-mail machine has lit up, a whole bunch of people out there want
there s a vietnam vet that was decorated. he s 69 years old. he died. he had two purple hearts for his service. well, over the course of his life, he had moved hired a moving company called two men with big hearts moving and storage. but he fell behind in his bills to this company. this storage company because of medical bills that had piled up for him. so he just passed away and the family is trying to figure out what they re going to do at the funeral and what they would like to do is get a hold of some of his military stuff, including his two purple hearts but the problem is that particular company is owed by the family $600. the family went over and talked to them and they knocked it down to $500. but nonetheless, they would like to have the stuff for the funeral next tuesday but they got to come up with $500. here s the son of the veteran. he was a very patriotic person. dad wanted to go out in a blaze of glory. that was on the back of the fire
up some medical bills apparently during the course of his life, as you can imagine, so he this bill for storage went unpaid and he actually had two purple hearts in there from his service so his family would like him to have those at his funeral, to be buried with him and the storage company that ironically is named two men with big hearts moving and storage, says, you know, a bill is a bill. where s our $500? they need their money before they re going to allow these purple hearts out. right. now, here s where our viewers have gotten involved. and that is we told folks about this story just in the last hour and since then, the e-mail machine has lit up, a whole bunch of people out there want to help the family get enough money to make sure that they can get those purple hearts and the fella s other military memorabilia out of storage. if you d like to help them, give us an e-mail. we ve been in contact with the family. they d be happy to talk to you.
it s not about allen west so once again, it s very interesting to me that we continually allow liberals to do whatever they want and attacking conservatives but all of a sudden, when a conservative stands up and says enough, then people want to sit back especially liberals want to play victim. she s not a victim. she s been attacking allen west for quite sometime. it will be interesting to see how she responds understandably later today. yeah. to that. also went on to say you haven t seen me mad yet. if everyone thinks i m mad, you have not seen me mad. that sounded pretty angry in that e-mail. meanwhile, need to tell you about this story out of arvada, colorado. it s such a sad story. there s a vietnam vet that was decorated. he s 69 years old. he died. he had two purple hearts for his service. well, over the course of his life, he had moved hired a moving company called two men with big hearts moving and