Firefighters with Cherokee County Fire & Emergency Services collected $5,336.68 during this year's annual boot drive for "Give Burns The Boot," a fundraising effort for the Georgia Firefighters Burn Foundation, the fire department announced.
In a statement from Cherokee County Fire & Emergency Services, Fire Educator Beth Elder said that among the activities made possible by Boot Drive proceeds is Camp Oo-U-La®, Georgia's only camp held exclusively for burn-injured children.
"The camp, paid for entirely by the Georgia Burn Foundation, allows the campers one week a year in which they can live without society's cruel comments and stares and just be kids," Elder said.