By Feeding Those

in Need

We’re so thankful for the opportunity to join the effort already supported by the FDNY and the NYPD. We hope our support will help bring awareness to eliminating hunger on a day that we have so much to remember.

Eighteen years have passed since the 9/11 terrorist attacks. 2,977 people were killed during these vicious attacks. Most of those who perished were civilians except for 343 firefighters and 71 law enforcement officers who died in the World Trade Center and on the ground in New York City; another law enforcement officer died when United Airlines Flight 93 crashed into a field near Shanksville, Pennsylvania, as well as 55 military personnel who died at the Pentagon in Arlington County, Virginia. In honor of these lives, Key Fire Hose is donating $5,000 to the City Harvest of New York, which will provide 5,000 meals — the first 2,977 meals in remembrance of the 9/11 victims and their families. City Harvest exists to end hunger in communities throughout New York City. They take on this huge initiative through food rescue and distribution, education, and other practical, innovative solutions.

Key Hose is proud to partner with City Harvest, an organization that diligently works to help feed over one million New Yorkers each year. Burke Genthner, President, Key Fire Hose, expressed, “We’re so thankful for the opportunity to join the effort already supported by the FDNY and the NYPD. We hope our support will help bring awareness to eliminating hunger on a day that we have so much to remember.”

You can stand with Key Fire Hose and City Harvest to help feed even more families during the “Hunger Action Month” of September by donating today. One generous donor is matching all gifts, dollar-for-dollar, up to $100,000, until September 30. Every dollar donated will be doubled, meaning the donation by Key Fire Hose and the corresponding match will provide about 40,000 pounds of food to the hungry throughout the area. Beginning next month, the FDNY and the NYPD will aid in hosting the Daily News Food Drive, the largest food drive in New York City.

Click here to donate now or to learn more about City Harvest's initiaves.