Today our firefighter families gathered to shop for our "Beyond the Call” Program. This program within our Community Outreach provides all of the children's gifts (needs and wants) along with Christmas dinner and additional food for the week. Seven (7) less fortunate families with twenty-four (24) children will be given a Merry Christmas with a very special delivery from Santa in our fire trucks on Christmas Eve. Thank you Target Store Newport for your assistance and efforts in today’s shopping adventure! Afterwards our families enjoyed lunch at Dixie Chili in Newport.
A HUGE THANK YOU to our supporters, sponsors, donors, Newport Firefighter families, and everyone else that makes this all possible for us to give back to our community!
The Newport FD makes me proud to call them my friends. Thank you for all you do. Merry Christmas to you all!
Awesome
Great Job !!!! So wonderful and amazing
Once again great job folks! The coat drive, beyond the call, thanks #45 👍😉!
Thank you for supporting so many of our students for Christmas!!!!
Local 45 is thankful for our community, businesses, and citizens who made it possible for us to provide winter coats to the children in need! We had over 200 coats donated from our challenge! YOU ALL ARE INCREDIBLE! Thank you for your endless support and generosity! Stay safe and Happy Holidays!!
Wow congratulations
Great job!
Great job Local 45 NFD
Way to go gang
Strong work Newport Firefighters!
Great job.
Wonderful!!!!
Great job!
That’s awesome! Thanks for all that you do!
Great job!!
That’s great #45, proud of all of you.👍
Great Job!
We had the pleasure today to have Retired Member Bob Barnett (retired 1999) join us for "Chili Saturday". We truly enjoy having our retired members join us for chili. Bob stuck around for awhile afterwards and told us some funny and interesting stories about the old days.
Bob, Jim Bonar, Teddy Connelly and I spent many an afternoon playing baseball in the old school yard at 9th and Columbia. Then we all went to High School right next door together. I was older, but those guys are a major part of my roots in Newport. 💜
I’m sure Old Bobby had some whoppers to tell you. P.S. folks, ran into “Dutch” at he Bengals game last week. What a guy, still going strong.😉Stay safe!
BOB looks exactly the same as 20 years ago
The Kindergarten Class of Newport Primary School made beautiful ornaments for our city Christmas tree. With the assistance of the Newport Firefighters these children found the perfect branches to display their little works of art.
Please stop by tomorrow, December 1st, at 5:00 P.M. for the official tree lighting.
~Give The Gift Of Warmth, It's More Than Just A Coat~
There is still time to make a coat donation!
Friday, November 30th, is the last day we will be collecting coats for the children of Newport Primary and Newport Intermediate Schools. There are over 700 children between the 2 schools, and over 50% of them walk to school.
LOCAL 45 is absolutely blown away with all of the love and support the businesses, communities, and citizens give to our Community Outreach Program! We cannot THANK YOU all enough for endless support!
(Saturday, December 1st starting at 9A.M., Newport Friefighters will be helping the schools administration fit these children with the perfect coat!)
Help Newport Firefighters share the warmth!
Newport Firefighters is challenging YOU, our surrounding community members to help keep the children warm. We are looking for NEW coats for children ages 5 to 14. These coats will be distributed to the children in Newport Primary School and Newport Intermediate School on December 1st. Over 50% of the children attending these schools, walk to and from school each day. Local 45 will match the first 50 coats donated to our drop off locations. Please have all coat donations dropped off by November 30th to one of the below locations.
NO CHILD SHOULD BE COLD FOR THE WINTER
~GIVE THE GIFT OF WARMTH~
Drop off Locations
Newport Fire Department
998 Monmouth Street (10th Street side)
Newport, KY 41071
South Newport Fire Department
171 Main Street
Newport, KY 41071
WOODEN CASK BREWING COMPANY
629 York Street
Newport, Kentucky 41071
The IAFF Center of Excellence for Behavioral Health Treatment and Recovery is a one-of-a-kind addiction treatment facility specializing in PTSD for IAFF members – and IAFF members only – who are struggling with addiction, PTSD other related behavioral health challenges to receive the help they need in taking the first steps toward recovery. It is a safe haven for members to talk with other members who have faced or overcome similar challenges.
Newport Firefighters Local 45, affiliated with International Association of Firefighters (I.A.F.F.), is primarily a Labor Organization representing the members of the Newport Fire/EMS Department in Newport, Kentucky. Established in 1918, Local 45 was one of the first sixty-six locals of the now more than 3,100 I.A.F.F. affiliates across the U.S. and Canada. Today, in addition to business of being a labor organization, Local 45 continues to sponsor programs such as College Scholarship Awards, Youth Sporting Events, Holiday Family Assistance Program and Smoke Detector Installation/Maintenance Program. Many of these programs were developed and financed by Local 45 members who were inspired to give back to the community after interactions during emergency responses.
