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Thankful for Furniture Donations

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New furniture for the Highland Park Volunteer Fire Department Station 37 Meeting Room was generously donated by two different people recently.

A full set of banquet chairs (seen above) was donated from a former Highland Park resident & Highland Park High School Alumnus. The wonderful Alum would like to remain anonymous and we are grateful for his support and kind assistance to making the meeting room a little nicer. The Alum recalls two house fires when he lived on Magnolia Street growing up and was appreciative of the assistance from Highland Park Volunteer Firefighters.

A large sectional, leather couch (shown below) with matching loveseat was donated from another Highland Park resident on behalf of Ekornes Furniture.

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We are grateful to the resident and to Ekornes, US as the couch helped replace some old, dilapidated recliners.

The meeting room in Station 37 is used for a host of HPVFD functions – general meetings, committee meetings, training and standby situations. It serves as an important social meeting space to bring our firefighters closer together. Just before & during Hurricane Sandy in 2012, the meeting room was the central place for HPVFD members to rest, recover, eat & discuss during the long standby (standby is a time when firefighters are called to the firehouse due to weather or special situations, it is an all-hands-on-duty situation to best respond to potential emergencies safely).

Thank you again for the two generous donations! Our members will put both to good use.

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