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Miami Lakes committee agrees to sponsor First Alarm foundation at fall festival after proposal for first-responder walk
Summary
Members of the Miami Lakes Mental Health Task Force voted to sponsor First Alarm, a nonprofit founded by a local first-responder spouse, to be the festival’s highlighted nonprofit and to explore a walk/run or walkathon connected to the town’s October fall festival.
A representative of First Alarm, identifying herself as the foundation’s founder, asked the Miami Lakes Mental Health Task Force to let the organization lead a pre-festival walk to raise awareness about first-responders’ mental health. The task force voted to sponsor First Alarm as the nonprofit partner for the October fall festival.
The request came during the committee’s discussion of new business when the founder said, “I'm from First Alarm. I'm the founder,” and described recent local first-responder suicides she wants the event to honor. She told the committee, “I would love to dedicate that 5 k to them,” and proposed holding a walk or 5K before the festival so participants…
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