Just thought I would throw this out there to you to pass around.

Every August I volunteer as a camp counselor at Oklahoma Firefighters Burn Camp for children who have been burned, as well as for kids who have some sort of disfiguring injury or condition. The scars are from various injuries such as cooking oils, fireworks, brush fires, gasoline explosions, there is even a young man who was attacked by a dog.

We have the camp at Dry Gulch USA, an amazing facility in Pryor, OK. Last year we had some major changes since Dry Gulch changed management.

Anyway, the camp is free for the kids, and the organization of Firefighters Educational Clowns (Huffy the CLown, Marshall Tom, (Tom Hufford) pays for counselors and volunteers to go. (The camp used to donate all of it for free, but, oh well.)

Some firefighter organizations (like Salina) donate a day of cooking on a grill, potato salad, etc. It helps cut the cost of food.

If there are any other firefighter groups that would like to do something like that, I can get you the contact info.

Also, and more importantly, really, is the need to find more young burn survivors out there who need this camp. From personal experience, I can say it is life changing. Some of our volunteers have recently been to OKC to talk to firefighters there, I just thought I would use this forum since everyone here is so great.

And since most of us met face to face, in case you are curious but are hesitant to ask, I was burned at age 2, I pulled a crockpot off the kitchen counter. It was next to chocolate donuts. So there's my other PSA, don't place anything tempting for kids next to something dangerous.

I will post a link to the camp website. They also take donations of any kind, really. I just learned today that Bio-oil has donated a make-up kit for every girl at camp, how fun is that? I have been there for 11 out of 13 years, and today, I did make-up and hair for a girl who is now 21, but I met her when she was 9 as a camper. She was burned on her face when her family was burning trash and a can exploded. Her whole face is skin grafts. Like I said, the camp is life changing. I can't brag about it enough!

Jammie

Here is a link that might be useful: OK Firefighters burn camp