This is the first of many stories from the Bellevue Fire Department. Let’s start with a little information on the Department. The City of Bellevue has 4 fire stations located throughout the City of Bellevue that are staffed 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. We serve over 60,000 people in the City of Bellevue and areas around it. In 2021, Bellevue Fire had 6445 calls for service (4478 for EMS calls and 1967 for fire calls and other calls). Bellevue Fire also provides Mutual Aid support to Offutt Air Force Base and surrounding communities when requested.
Recently Bellevue Fire was able to provide sets of outdated surplus bunker gear to our brothers and sisters serving as firefighters in Ukraine. Battalion Chief Kurt Strachota read that a fire department in Clifton, NJ was donating gear to departments in Ukraine and reached out to see how we could support them as well. Chief Strachota was put in contact with an organization out of Lincoln, Nebraska and they came by Station 2 on March 30th to pick up our donation. The surplus bunker gear is being transported to Chicago, Illinois where it will be shipped to Poland and then distributed to our brothers and sisters in Ukraine. Some of the firefighters in Ukraine are having to fight fires wearing just shorts so this surplus gear will be a welcomed addition.
