Kent firefighters help provide coats to Highline Public Schools students

For the second time this school year, local firefighters will be donating new, American made coats to children who attend Highline Public Schools.

  • BY Wire Service
  • Monday, February 3, 2014 3:46pm
  • News

For the second time this school year, local firefighters will be donating new, American made coats to children who attend Highline Public Schools.

About 240 preschool students from throughout Highline Public Schools will come Tuesday, Feb. 4, to Kent Fire Department RFA’s Station 46 (formerly the SeaTac Fire Department) to be fitted and receive their new coats.

Because Highline schools cover several cities, firefighters from Kent Fire Department RFA, South King Fire and Rescue, Burien Fire, The Port of Seattle and North Highline will assist with the distribution at the station, 3521 S. 170th St.

Operation Warm (www.operationwarm.org) provides coats to needy children – which keeps them warm, helps families with limited budgets, and promotes a higher sense of self-esteem in the kids. Many never owned a new coat before and have always had hand-me-downs. In SeaTac, 19 percent of children live in poverty.

The International Association of Firefighters (IAFF) began partnering with Operation Warm in 2012 and has provided coats to over 25,000 children since through the Firefighters Coats for Kids Foundation.

Although local firefighters are providing the coats, a generous donation from Seattle radio station KISW made the event possible.

This is the second donation of coats by local firefighters. In October, 300 coats were provided to kindergarten age children of Highline Public Schools by the firefighters of the (then) SeaTac Fire Department and Port of Seattle.


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