FIREFIGHTERS at Westbury have staged a charity car wash to raise £400 for the Fire Fighters Charity.
The event was held on Saturday March 30 at the town’s fire station in Meadow Lane with firefighters washing cars in return for donations.
Crew Manager Pete Eastland said: “We’d like to say a big thank you to the local community for their support, we raised over £400.
“A big well done to the firefighters as well for working so hard all day, especially as most of them had been at a thatch fire throughout the night.”
The Fire Fighters Charity provides help to serving and retired personnel, their widows/widowers and young dependants.
It provides sheltered accommodation, recuperative facilities, rehabilitation and therapy, as well as giving financial support to those who need it.
The charity works with some 11,000 beneficiaries every year at a cost of £9 million per annum, and these services are financed almost exclusively by fundraising.
Visitors to the fire station were also able to ask the crew about becoming an on-call firefighter in Westbury.
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