Fire Cadets for Freeport

10/10/2019

10/09/2019

To the cadets, family and friends of Estero, Orange City, Hillsboro and others we thank you. All your donations totaling 8 pallets (5267 pounds) were taken to Opa Locka Airport today to fly out tomorrow morning to our friends in the Bahamas. Y’all went above and beyond and we are so extremely grateful. You guys ROCK!! Here are some pics of the original drop off last week to the plane they are leaving on. A big shout out to Nick Mastroianni and the Mastroianni Foundation for getting our supplies over there. Could not have done it without you! Thank you!!

10/03/2019

Another video showing our supplies getting where they are needed most, including to the local fire fighters.

10/02/2019

From our connection Fritz Thompson on the ground in Freeport....Florida Fire Cadets to Freeport Fire Fighters. Glad we could help. Keeping all the Bahamian First Responders in our prayers.

09/21/2019

This makes us very happy! Those are our supplies that have just been delivered to Fritz (our contact) in Freeport via cargo plane. Twelve more will be there first thing in the morning. Dawson and Jennifer will be flying over early tomorrow morning to personally hand them out to the wonderful people of Sweetings Cay. Thanks Fritz for organizing all this on your end and working with us. We are lucky to have you! See ya tomorrow early.

09/15/2019

Made it to Freeport thanks to Mr. Rick Slidder. Currently handing out supplies with Fritz Thompson to the gracious residents of Sweetings Cay that are displaced here hopefully only temporarily. Keep the supplies coming plz.

09/13/2019

Quick update because we are spent! We had hoped for 10 pallets of donations....we ended up with 43....yes 43!!!! That’s over 20 thousand pounds of supplies for our friends in the Bahamas. Wow!
Dawson and Jennifer are heading over with the first 12 pallets via air on Saturday weather pending to personally hand deliver the items we collected. The rest is going over Tuesday on a barge directly to our contact Fritz Thomson of Sweetings Cay. We will share more photos and updates after our trip. Thanks to the Cunningham Family for the donation of not one but two storage units to house our donations. Thanks to Gray Ingram and Box Board Products for the donation of boxes for all extra supplies we hadn’t planned for. We could not have done this with out all of you and your love. And thanks to Cheney Brothers, Inc for picking up our “extra” 30 pallets we hadn’t planned for. You guys rock!! We love all our volunteer cadets and family. We could not have done it without all y’all!

09/09/2019

Thanks to these Cadets (and Todd and Alex 😊) for busting their butts today to get all this done. We need a lot more help tomorrow so please Cadets or anyone, reach out if you can and let us know you can help. We will start around 3 so come after school. Thank you so much!

09/09/2019

Wow!!! What a great day! We had 4 trailers from the nice people at Fin Ally Yacht Transport and Boats Gone Wild deliver us supplies all the way from the Tampa area and the patrons of Marker 1 Marina in Dunedin, FL. This put us WAY above our expectations! Thank you so much!!!!!! Also thanks to the Cadets that helped out and to our friends for being so amazing and working so hard to help us get this done.

09/08/2019

Calling all Cadets....or anyone who would be so kind as to help the cadets out (since most are in school Monday at 11:30am).

An extremely generous amount of donations will be arriving tomorrow, Monday, around 11:30am in the form of 3 - 14' box trucks. We are in desperate need of help to unload all of this into a storage unit off Blue Heron Blvd. Please DM or call us if you can help or for more info.

EDIT - Just got word that an additional 40' truck will be arriving Tuesday. Wow!!!! This is amazing!!!!