VIDEO: Charles “Chuck” Robinson served the Morton Fire Department for more than 40 years.
Robinson passed away from a heart attack at the end of 2021, and now his family and the entire Morton community honors his service with an annual April blood drive supporting the American Red Cross.
“We kind of picked April because that’s his birth date, he was born in April so we picked that date and it was kind of a reason to kind of get people’s attention for the fire department in support and stuff like that and to get blood for the Red Cross,” said Fire Chief Tony Mages.
Thursday will be the second year of the blood drive honoring Robinson, and the inaugural year maxed out their donation time slots.
Service for the fire department runs in the family, as Robinson’s brothers and nephews currently serve the department, and his great-great-grandfather was Morton’s first fire chief in the late 1800s.