SANTA MARIA, Calif- Santa Maria were filling their boots today, and you were the biggest distributors! Off duty fire fighters volunteered their time to raise money for local families that suffer from muscular diseases. Fire fighters took over the intersection at Broadway and McCoy to raise money for the Muscular Dystrophy Association.
Over the last fifty eight years the International Association of Fire Fighters have raised over 400-million dollars for children and adults living with neuro-muscular diseases. The Santa Maria Fire Department has personally been touched by this disease and have been faithfully filling the boot year after year. Battalion Chief, Alan Widling says, "my grandson Anthony Diaz has duchenne muscular dystrophy which is causing his muscles to be week and possibly he'll be in a wheel chair shortly so we're very concerned and that connection has caused the fire fighters to take it to heart, so we are doing everything we can to support MDA"
Last year the fire department was able to raise 12-thousand dollars. They are hoping to reach that goal this year.
