Support for the American Lung Association

Sergeant First Class Adam C. Law, an Instructor at the Department of Defense Fire Academy, has organized a team of Joint Service Firefighters who will be participating in the Dallas Texas Fight For Air Climb Firefighter Challenge on February 18 2012.

The Fight for Air Climb is a vertical race up 53 flights of Stairs (1040 steps). This task will be completed in Full Personal Protective Equipment to include Self Contained Breathing Apparatus (SCBA).

As the team captain for this event for the Joint Service Firefighters, if you would be willing to support our efforts we would like to support you all by wearing or displaying your company logo on either our custom helmets we are having airbrushed or on our turn out gear.

To see more information pertaining to this event or even make a donation please go to:

http://action.lungusa.org/goto/joint_service_firefighters

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