
December 19, 2018
Fire Commissioner Adam Thiel helps a first grader at the annual "Operation Warm: New Coats for Kids" event, Wednesday, Dec. 19, 2018.
Every child should have a warm winter coat during the cold winter months, but many kids from the city’s poorest neighborhoods go without. But thanks to a partnership established in 2012 between Operation Warm and members of the Philadelphia Firefighters & Paramedics Union Local 22, nearly 600 children at John Marshall Elementary School will be given a brand-new winter coat this holiday season.
To mark this special occasion, Philadelphia Firefighters & Paramedic Union Local 22 President Ed Marks and members, City Councilwoman Maria Quinones-Sanchez and the staff of Operation Warm presented dozens of first grade children with new winter coats this afternoon at the North Philadelphia elementary school. The remainder of the coats will be delivered to students after the holiday break.
First graders at John Marshall Elementary School look at a pile of new coats minutes before they were distributed to them.
Firefighter Lamont Gore hands out firefighter helmets to children to children at John Marshall Elementary School.
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Fire Commissioner Adam Thiel helps a first grader at the annual “Operation Warm: New Coats for Kids” event, Wednesday, Dec. 19, 2018.
Firefighter Edward Mulholland of Ladder 10 helps hand out new winter coats to kids at the John Marshall Elementary School in Philadelphia.
Liutenant George Cooper helps a student choose a new winter coat during the “Operation Warm: New Coats for Kids” event, Wednesday, Dec. 19, 2018.
Chuck McQuilkin, Vice President of the Local 22 firefighters union helps a first grader at the annual “Operation Warm: New Coats for Kids” event, Wednesday, Dec. 19, 2018.
City Councilwoman Maria Quinones-Sanchez stopped by the event at the John Marshall Elementary School in Philadelphia.
First graders John Marshall Elementary School pose for photo wearing their new winter jackets during the “Operation Warm: New Coats for Kids” event.