On Saturday June the 9th the Firefighters Burn Institute will be hosting a party! "A Tropical Affair” will be held at the Shriners Hospital for Children on Stockton Blvd. Located behind Shriners is a large lawn area where the party will be held under the stars! We will have a lot of food and drink vendors that will be there and the band, Wonder Bread 5 will be helping everyone dance the night away! Hawaiian dancers will also be on hand! You can purchase tickets at www.ffburn.org Please support the Firefighters Burn Institute and help make this a night that everyone will remember! Proceeds will help benefit the burn units at Shriners and U.C. Davis Hospitals….

Firefighters from many of the fire departments serving Sacramento and surrounding communities will support the Firefighters Burn Institute at our annual “Fill the Boot for Burns Boot Drive”. This year’s Boot Drive will be held February the 17th through the 20th at Sunrise Mall in Citrus Heights. Our “kick off” will be held in conjunction with the “Media and Fire Chief’s Challenge” on Saturday the 18th at 10:00 A.M. Fire agencies in 18 Northern California counties are also hosting “Fill the Boot for Burns” events during the next 2 months. The entire weekend Firefighters Mike Feyh and Forrest Rowell will be high above the intersection of Greenback and Sunrise in their Fire Truck Aerial Ba

“Dance on Fire,” a pictorial 2012 calendar created as a joint effort by the Firefighters’ Burn Institute and the Sacramento Ballet, will have its sales debut on October 21. It features twelve beautifully rendered images by award-winning photographer Keith Sutter, each one featuring one of Sacramento areas dedicated firefighters paired with a dancer from the Sacramento Ballet. All proceeds from calendar sales benefit the Sacramento Ballet and the Firefighters Burn Institute equally. The idea for the calendar grew out of conversations between Nancy Garton, a ballet Board member, and Jim Doucette, Executive Director of the Firefighters Burn Institute. When the idea was shared with ballet Art

This Sunday over 50 young burn survivors will be rendezvousing at Shriners Hospital for Children, Sacramento, and heading off to Lake Tahoe for a fun filled week! They will be attending the 19th annual, “Firefighters Kids Camp.” There will be a lot of activities that they will participate in, but the most important thing about this camp, is that they get to be around other kids just like themselves! Burn injuries are very traumatic and can be disfiguring. Sometimes these kids face teasing and ridicule from other kids, but this camp not only gets them away from that for the week, it also teaches them how to handle this kind of behavior in their everyday life. They will also participate in

The Firefighters Burn Institute is recruiting young burn survivors for our upcoming Little Heroes Preschool Burn Camp. The camp is held September 30 through October 2, 2011 at Camp Arroyo in Livermore, CA. It is designed for young burn survivors and their families. There is no charge to attend this camp, including most transportation. For more information please contact Catharine Shaw at (916) 739-8525.