Fire Department Collecting Bottled Water for Flint, MI

UPPER MARLBORO, MD — Four Prince George’s County Fire/EMS Stations are serving as collection points in an effort to collect clean water for Flint, MI, a city whose water is unsafe to drink.

A volunteer group is collecting clean drinking water for the residents of Flint. They are proposing a “Clean Water Rescue Challenge” and asking Prince George’s County residents to participate and donate as many cases of clean water that you can.

Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder recently said that the public health catastrophe in Flint, where an unknown number of residents have been exposed to dangerously high levels of lead in their drinking water, is “the result of failures at all levels of government — city, state and federal.”

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• FBI Investigating Flint Lead Poisoning Scandal
• Lawsuit Asks Court to Force State to Fix Flint Water Lines

Clean water may be dropped off at the following Fire/EMS Stations where they will be stored until pick-up and delivery to Flint. Please note that some of these stations may be out on calls or other tasks and may not be there to accept you donation. You may leave your water near any door. Donations will be collected until March 20, 2016.

Donations can be left on any day of the week from 9 a.m. until 7 p.m.

• Branchville Volunteer Fire Company and Rescue Squad, 4905 Branchville Road, College Park
• Chillum-Adelphi Volunteer Fire Department, 7833 Riggs Road, Langley Park
• Kettering-Largo Fire/EMS Station, 10400 Campus Way South, Upper Marlboro
• Glenn Dale Volunteer Fire Association, 11900 Glenn Dale Boulevard, Glenn Dale

For large water donations, contact the event coordinator at 240-354-0285.