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LOS SANTOS FIRE DEPARTMENT PRESS RELEASE - LSFD Runs The Marathon LSFD Runs The Marathon⠀Written by: Alice MacCarthyPublished: 01/12/2020 The Los Santos Fire Department had a busy weekend in terms of events and with Sunday bringing more charitable efforts from department employees. Despite a postponement earlier in the month due to weather complications and issues out of the organisers hands. Anna's charity run went ahead and onlookers watched as she ran the route in full duty SCBAs in the hot weather the city was treated to on Sunday.Earlier in the month we pushed a Press Release urging to donate to Anna's cause as she announced she was to run the second marathon in the year, hosted by the Nothern District Office in ex-Captain Laura Murphy's memory. Having raised $336,000 in July to support fire survival victims and their families as well as families of fallen firefighters. Anna Degtyarev at the LS Marathon in June alongside Brendan Vano As well as Anna, PR Director Alice MacCarthy and Fire Marshal Brendan Vano ran in ex-PR Director Freddy Mellet's memory after he died after a long battle with Lung cancer, an illness that more than two thirds of firefighters will develop in their lifetime compared to the twenty two percent of the general population.Spurred on by their choice to run in the marathon, they were joined by various other members of the State Fire Marshals including Chief Carlton Jones and Marshals Alejandro Delgado and Charles Zwiefelhofer. Cheered on by various Fire Department and Police Department employees present.While Alice and Brendan did not set out to raise any funds in Freddy's memory. Anna's charitable efforts raised $337,692 for the LSFD Foundation which will be split 50/50 between the foundation and the Hope Community Center in Little Seoul to go towards the amazing they work do every day to offer people a safe space to go to have a meal, a bed, free healthcare and emotional support. Which was the marathon's main charity. Alongside this, Alice celebrated coming second place in the marathon."The Los Santos Fire Department has always been a community focused department and agency, always wanting to give more and more back to the community they are employed and live in. Our firefighters, volunteers, civilian staff and interns pride themselves on serving their community with courage, integrity and pride. We take great pride in being a charitable department, taking part in events such as the marathon on Sunday, our community event fundraisers. In this day and age for Los Santos, this helps raise funds that provide vital aid to citizens and our department will continue to raise money for charity and never not put our community first. Me and Brendan have been friends since I first moved to Los Santos and joined the department and we were both close friends with Freddy so it felt only right to do this for Freddy. For both of us Freddy had major impacts in our lives and he will live on in everyones memories. Not just for myself and Brendan. But, the same goes for almost everyone in the Los Santos Fire Department and State Fire Marshal's, Freddy had a heart of gold and would give his all for everyone. He was an individual that kept on giving and he'll be sorely missed as a friend and family member by all of the Los Santos Fire Department." - Alice MacCarthy