For more than 67 years, firefighters across Canada have dedicated their time and talents to raising much needed funds for Muscular Dystrophy Canada.

And for 48 of those years, Dauphin Fire Department has been front and centre in fund-raising efforts to fight MD.

“I’m not sure how the partnership was initially struck up, but they’ve had this agreement in place since 1954. Dauphin got involved in 1976 and since that time it’s over $100,000 that our department is raised for muscular dystrophy,” fire chief Cam Abrey said ,adding the department’s approach to fund-raising for the cause has taken on many different forms over the years.

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