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Help purchase vital equipment while honoring or remembering a loved one, a special occasion, a first responder or yourself.
Help purchase vital equipment while honoring or remembering a loved one, a special occasion, a first responder or yourself.
Brush trucks are essential for fire departments serving rural communities like ours. They are small, agile vehicles designed to handle extreme off-road terrain and have unique design and configuration details to match the terrain they service. They are built on a heavy duty, 4x4 pickup chassis and have specialty tools and hoses most trucks don’t carry. The small size and four-wheel drive allow the vehicle to access fires that engines and tankers can’t get to. In a rural setting like Louisa County, and especially in the New Bridge, Lake Anna and Mineral areas, where there are thousands of homes spread throughout the forested area (known as a wildland-urban interface), being able to quickly find, access and extinguish brush fires is imperative to prevent brush fires from spreading to homes.
As a community we have already helped fund:
An Air Cascade System ($60,000)
Fire and Rescue Boat ($108,000)
Ambulance Physio Control LifePack and extrication equipment ($76,235)
Ambulance Lucas Compression Device ($17,642)
Ambulance Medical Supplies ($5,000)
New Ambulance ($150,000)
Construction ($100,000)
Why do we continue raising funds? New Bridge Station is the first fire and rescue station funded by county funds ($2.3M). The other 7 stations were constructed through the generosity of the local communities. We are working with the Lake Anna community to follow the example of our neighbors by contributing to the apparatus and equipment costs.
Or send checks to:
Foundation for Lake Anna Emergency Services
P.O. Box 1021
Louisa, VA 23093
Or go to PayPal.me/LKAEMS
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The Foundation is a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt organization ... Your donations are tax-deductible.
EIN 84-4326206
Our amazing team of volunteers worked with the Lake Anna community to raise the “seed money” to build the New Bridge Rescue Station. The Louisa County Board of Supervisors ultimately appropriated $2.3 million for a fire and rescue station that became operational June 1, 2023. We continue to raise funds for vital equipment. Please donate now or contact us for more information.
The Foundation for Lake Anna Emergency Services was established in January 2020 for fundraising and soliciting contributions from individuals and businesses in the Lake Anna community for the purpose of donating funds collected to construct a public emergency services facility to serve the more than 2,300 homes and businesses at Lake Anna currently outside the 5-mile radius of any rescue station in Louisa County, Virginia. In spite of the pandemic, the Foundation and the Lake Anna community raised $100,000 in 5 months. An additional $400,000 has been raised for an ambulance, ambulance equipment and a fire and rescue boat.
In rural areas, EMS is your health care provider for the first hour of life-threatening events. Our initial mission was to raise $100,000 to be donated to Louisa County for the construction of the New Bridge Rescue EMS Station. Once we met that goal, the Lake Anna Community continued to support the need for equipment and supplies for Station 8.
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