Charity Collection Display Stolen from Boston Firehouse
Source Firehouse.com News
A display used to collect money for charity outside a popular Boston fire station was stolen overnight.
Firefighters at Engine 33 and Ladder 15 said the boot and collection box weighed over 50 pounds. It was bolted to the ground between the apparatus bays.
"It's just pretty low what they did," Boston Firefighter Eric Evans told television station WCVB.
Money that was collected at the Boylston Street firehouse went to the Muscular Dystrophy Association and the Walsh-Kennedy Memorial Fund. The memorial fund is in honor of Lt. Ed Walsh and Firefighter Michael Kennedy, who died in a March 2014 blaze.
"They actually came by with a sledgehammer or something and they banged it right out," said Evans.
It is unknown how much money was in the boot and firefighters said that donations on a holiday weekend with high foot traffic tend to be high.
