Thanks to everyone for their patience. These decisions are never easy or taken lightly, however, we have made the decision to CANCEL tonight’s Santa Run. We will be checking the schedule to see if we can have a make up night for the neighborhood/streets missed tonight.
However, please come to our Meet and Greet from 6:00pm – 8:00pm tomorrow night to see Santa! Click here for our Facebook event.
The safety of Santa and his elves is our highest priority and as such, we are keeping an eye on the rain and will provide an update on tonight’s Santa run as it gets closer to 6:00pm.
We will also be hosting another Meet and Greet tomorrow night from 6:00pm – 8:00pm in the community hall at the fire station – regardless of the outcome of tonight’s Santa Run – so if we don’t make it out tonight, come see Santa up close and personal tomorrow night.
Santa is back at it again tonight. Click here to track where he is.
He will visit the neighborhoods of “Cardinal Estates” and “Heritage Sq.” Streets and neighborhoods directly off Burke Rd between Burke Lake Rd and the Rolling Road VRE, as well as Packard Way and Burke Manor. See the map for the exact streets.
Santa will visit the neighborhoods and streets on Lake Braddock Drive from Burke Lake Road to Rolling Road to include the streets off Signal Hill and Parliament Drive as well as Old Burke Lake Road. See the attached map for the exact streets.
Also… good news… our Santa tracker is back in service. Be sure to follow us on Twitter (or view the twitter feed on bottom left side of this page) for update to date information on Santa’s whereabouts!
Santa has headed out to visit the neighborhoods and streets off of Burke Road between Ashbourn Drive and Lake Braddock Drive (high school side) to include Wallingford Drive, Olley Lane and Winbourne Road. Please see map for the full list of streets.
Our tracker is still not working so please be sure to visit our Facebook page – or see the Facebook feed on this page – for details on where he is headed. Please keep in mind though that we cannot provide specific times on when we will be on your street but Santa’s big green sleigh will be lit up and making a lot of noise – so please keep an eye out for the big guy!
Santa is out and about but unfortunately our tracker is not working. Santa will start on Woodedge Drive, then will visit the highlighted roads off of Lee Chapel, then those off Old Keene Mill followed by the roads off Shiplett all the way to Burke Lake Road. We are not able to provide exact times so please be on the look out. If you miss Santa tonight, don’t forget about our next Meet and Greet on Tuesday, December 10 from 6pm – 8pm in the community hall at the fire station.
We hope that you and your family had a safe and relaxing Thanksgiving! It’s hard to believe that it is over already, but it’s now time to gear up for the rest of 2019 and the remaining holidays.
As usual, we will be escorting Santa around on his big green fire and rescue sleigh to visit our amazing friends in the Burke Community as well as hosting our annual Pancakes with Santa.
And new this year, have also scheduled several Meet and Greets with Santa, in our community hall at the fire station.
For more details, please click on the image below to take you directly to the Santa specific pages. Or by selecting the page above.
It is that time of the year again! Our annual Fire Prevention Open House will be held on Saturday, October 12, 2019 from 10:00 am – 4:00 pm.
Please join for a fun-filled day of fire prevention education, information, and demonstrations.
We will have a fire engine driving simulator where the kids, or those of us that are kids at heart, can sit in the driver’s seat of the engine and “drive” to a call.
We will have a kids firefighter obstacle course where they put on protective gear, climb through tunnels, up a ladder to save a kitten, and then put a “fire” out.
And of course, we’ll have the ever so popular Sparky the Fire Dog walking around, free popcorn, and many other fun activities!
Hope to see you there!
Stop by the fire station on Sunday, September 15 from 10 am – 2 pm to get your car washed by Burke VFRD members and the firetruck at our Community Car Wash.
Inova Blood Donor Services will also have their Bloodmobile onsite for a blood drive. To schedule a blood donation, visit http://bit.ly/BVFD0915.
It is also rumored that Sparky the Fire Dog will be making an appearance and washing cars too!
We are so excited to share that we have been selected to be a part of the Giant Food Community Bag Program, which is designed to make it easy for customers to contribute to their local community while supporting the environment.
For the month of July, each time a reusable $2.50 Community Bag is purchased at the Giant Food located at 6011 Burke Centre Parkway, $1 will be donated to us at Burke VFRD.
This is a great way to raise awareness, support the environment, and one of the many ways you can support us. We are a nonprofit organization and relies on community contributions. Thank you for your continued support!
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If you are doing any last minute Father’s Day shopping on Amazon, don’t forget to think of us at Burke! Shop through our Amazon Smile page http://smile.amazon.com/ch/23-7128915 and Amazon donates 0.5% of the price of eligible items back to us.
The Burke Volunteer Fire and Rescue Department is pleased to announce the winner of our Name the Ambulance Campaign— The Spirit of Burke — which was voted on by the BVFRD members at our general membership meeting in January. While our winner has elected to remain anonymous, the new ambulance, set to be purchased in 2020, will feature a plaque on the interior of the unit commemorating its new name. We are very proud of this name and all of the honor and responsibility that comes along with it. There is always meaning behind a name, and with a name like this we hope to represent all of the spirit, strength, and resilience that the Burke community carries within its core.
Although it was a difficult process narrowing down the submissions to the final vote, we were deeply inspired seeing all the creativity that we received with your suggestions. There was a lot of humor in names like Iva Gotyou or Wee-oo, and even some silly ones like Amby McAmbulance Face. There were epic names like Apollo, and even clever names like Edward the Medic Truck (EMT). There were dozens more that caught our eye and we truly appreciate all of the imaginative responses sent our way. This was such a fun process and it is entirely thanks to all of our friends and family in the Burke community.
This campaign also managed to highlight our first attempt at an online Facebook drive. With over $800 raised in the end, we were excited to see that this was a successful medium to reaching out to folks for help in keeping our station up and running. We want to thank you all for your donations and continued support, we sincerely appreciate it.
As the Spirit of Burke makes its way into our community in the upcoming year, we genuinely look forward to continuing to serve you all!
We hope that you have already received our fund drive letter in the mail.
Click here to read our fund drive letter to find out the various ways you can support us! We are raising funds to help pay for our new fire ambulance, which should arrive later this year. BVFRD is a nonprofit organization and relies on community contributions – please use the secure Paypal link to donate today. Thank you for your continued support!
First, we would like to thank you for your support and understanding while we worked out the issues with Santa’s Big Green Sleigh!
We are happy to announce that we have those issues worked out and we will be able to complete the Santa Runs originally posted for this week.
Click here to see the details on where we will be visiting this week. If your neighborhood had previously been cancelled, you can use the Santa tracker to see Santa along one of his routes.
