December 2019: Breaths for Pets teamed up with the Kearny Rotary Club and donated three mask kits to the East Newark Fire Department! The Rotary Club and Breaths for Pets were featured in the Kearny Observer.
November 2019: After a brief hiatus we are back in action and have donated 5 mask kits to the North Arlington Fire Department. Here we are with Captain Mark Kobuszewski!
December 2018: We would like to note that the Passaic, NJ Fire Department is the tenth town that Breaths for Pets has provided reusable animal sized oxygen mask kits to. We are very proud of this milestone and grateful to all who helped us reach this goal!
November through December 2018
We provided 6 mask kits to the Passaic, NJ Fire Department. We will be providing another 4 kits to them soon. Below is a photo of the Passaic FD with the first two kits.
September 2018
We provided 3 mask kits to the Pompton Plains, NJ Fire Department
May 2018
We provided 4 mask kits to the Byram, NJ. Fire Department
December 2017
We provided the Nancy Run Fire Company of Bethlehem, PA with four mask kits!
February 2017
We provided the Missing Persons and Animal Search and Rescue of Glen Gardner, NJ, with two mask kits. Below is the Sponsor Certificate.
September 2016
We were able to Provide the Clifton, NJ Fire Department with 3 mask kits! Here’s a photo of some of the FD personnel with one of the kits donated.
March 2016
We were able to provide the Fairfield, NJ FD with all of the mask kits they needed! Here’s a photo of Elaina with Fire Official Smith, handing over the kits. Note that the kits now come in clear plastic bags so that all items are visible (the orange bags are also provided separately).
July 2015
The most recent community that we have helped was Little Falls, NJ. We were able to provide them with nine pet rescue kits! Below is a photo of Elaina with Fire Marshall Pomponio and one of LF’s fire inspectors.
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In August and September of 2014, we ran a successful campaign on gofundme in the hopes of providing pet sized oxygen masks and other related equipment to our hometown, Bloomfield, as well as our neighboring towns of Nutley.
The campaign took off, and within a few short weeks we raised enough money to not only supply Bloomfield and Nutley with all of the mask kits that they needed, but to also supply Clifton and Belleville as well.
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Clifton, NJ Fire Department
Below are certificates that we received after donating the masks to the Clifton FD.
Bloomfield, NJ Fire Department
Captain Donald M. Jervis of the Bloomfield Fire Department States:
“The Bloomfield Fire Department is very satisfied and grateful for the donation of the pet masks. The masks were used at a fire in 2014 at Brookdale Gardens. If we did not have the masks to administer the needed lifesaving supplemental oxygen to the dog, the outcome could have been tragic.
We encourage people who love animals to donate these masks to their local fire departments in hopes that they will never have to be used. But in the world we live in today we all know that fires happen and if there is a pet in need, there will be a mask there for them.”
Below is a photo of Captain Jervis, his crew, and his dog Shane that he sent to us.
