San Diego Fire-Rescue Foundation
Community Projects
On June 3, 2018 Del Cerro suffered a 39 acre fire in the Adobe Falls Canyon area, during which the San Diego Fire-Rescue Department firefighters saved our homes and prevented injury.
In gratitude we met with SDFRF and discovered the firefighters were in need of brush fire fighting equipment. SDFRF and FODC created a partnership and raised funds to outfit all 75 brush firefighting rigs in San Diego with the needed equipment.
The fund raised over $20,000.00. Thank you to everyone who contributed to this effort including SDSU, Padres, SDFRA. DCAC, FODC and many more of the local neighborhood contributors.
The need for specialized hand tools is more important than ever as the region continues to see an increase in the size and frequency of brush and wildland fires.
When it comes to fires, SDFD is in a city with hundreds of miles of canyons and open space, and urban wildland interface, where the city is encroaching upon natural habitat. The Department must be prepared to answer the call for wildfires as well as fires in high rises, homes, vehicles and more. Specialized hand tools are used by firefighters to create a line around the perimeter of the fire to stop its advance.
Friends of Del Cerro is now partnering with San Diego Fire Rescue Foundation (Foundation) to raise the necessary funds to fully equip all SDFD rigs with these vital tools. Del Cerro business owner and Foundation board member Don Teemsma and the Foundation board have already secured a $10,000 donation from the San Diego Padres organization toward the purchase of these tools. Friends of Del Cerro has set up a fundraising page and is asking the community to help raise the additional funds needed.
Together, FODC and the Foundation have pledged to ensure that the firefighters who risk their lives to protect the citizens and property of San Diego have what they need to battle these fires that have the potential to quickly devastate our local communities.