When a group of Port Washington volunteers learned of floods that damaged Kentucky communities and their fire departments, they sprang into action. The fire departments needed gear and new trucks. That's exactly what those volunteers got them.

"Not everything was lost, but a fair share of it, where every firefighter does not have the equipment that they need to do what they gotta do," JJ Winnemuller said.

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