(Salem OR) - For over 26 years, Marion County Fire District #1 Professional Firefighters IAFF Local 2557 has been raising money for the Muscular Dystrophy Association (MDA) to fight neuromuscular disease with 'Fill the Boot' fundraisers.  

2024 Fill the Boot event raised $17,010. This year's fundraiser was held in front of Roth's IGA in northeast Salem, Oregon.  These positive impacts increase our community's health and well-being; it allows Marion County Firefighters to connect with the communities we proudly serve. Fill the Boot' also involves our family members and close friends all coming together with the community for a great cause.

MDA is the world's leading nonprofit health organization sponsoring research seeking the causes of and effective treatments for neuromuscular diseases.  The International Association of Firefighters (IAFF) is the largest national sponsor of the Muscular Dystrophy Association (MDA). Since 1954, firefighters across the country have collected critical funds in the community – one dollar at a time.  More than 355,000 members of the IAFF in the United States and Canada are pledged to saving lives, both as firefighters and paramedics and as the strongest campaigners for the worldwide research efforts of MDA to eradicate 40 neuromuscular diseases.  The contributions of the firefighters also go towards MDA's summer camps for children, professional and public health education, and other programs.

-Special thank you to Roth's Grocery, and Chemeketa Community College Fire Program.