The Grand Rapids Fire Department and surrounding volunteer departments exceeded expectations for their 2019 fundraising drive to raise critical funds for the Minnesota Muscular Dystrophy Association (MDA). All of the donations collected over three days during the first week in August are truly helping to transform the lives of kids and adults with muscular dystrophy, ALS and related muscle-debilitating diseases.
Grand Rapids volunteer firefighters were joined by Trout Lake firefighters to take donations in boots for over nine hours spanning three consecutive days. Together they raised $30,490 coming in #1 in the state. According to Anya Moran—development specialist for the Muscular Dystrophy Association in Minnesota, the Dakotas and Western Wisconsin—a total of $469,338 was raised across the state of Minn.