A Ukrainian-Canadian fire dancer is helping Ukrainians fight fires by collecting gear to send overseas.
·The Steinbach Fire Department has donated this gear to send to firefighters in Ukraine desperately in need of equipment. They are one of eight southern Manitoba fire halls participating in a collection drive organized by Yevgeniya Tatarenko.Yevgeniya Tatarenko is a marketing instructor at Red River College by day, but performs as a fire dancer in her spare time.
"They lost a lot of lives of their firefighters and they are training the new volunteers and they just don't have the gear they can put those people in," she said. The logistics of getting all that gear is a bit tricky, but Tatarenko says it is being sent overseas along with people taking commercial flights to Europe, and then will get picked up Ukrainian officials.Steinbach fire chief Kelvin Toews, whose fire hall is one of the eight donating gear, says they typically donate their decommissioned gear to Firefighters Without Borders, which distributes it to fire departments in developing countries.
"It's very rewarding to be helping out our brothers and sisters out in the Ukraine, and it fills us — fills me — with pride that the rural fire departments all banded together and are able to get a shipment together."
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