The Arizona Attorney General’s Office is ‘looking into’ concerns from the state’s largest firefighter union about a Valley fire department’s online fundraising efforts and claims.
PEORIA, AZ — The Arizona Attorney General’s Office is ‘looking into’ concerns from the state’s largest firefighter union about a Valley fire department’s online fundraising efforts and claims about its capabilities.The agency, which claims to operate in nearly every Arizona county, gets its name from the 1970s show ‘Emergency!’
When ABC15 asked Don Jongewaard, president of the “Professional Firefighters of Arizona” union, about RCFD, he started doing research.Not long after those calls, Jongewaard sent a letter to the Arizona Attorney General’s Office requesting an “immediate investigation” into the department.”I'm just not seeing any evidence that they are doing what they say they're doing, and that they are what they say they are,” said Jongewaard.
The couple’s non-profit operation, which got IRS approval in 2020, is Rampart County Fire Department Disaster Response. In his letter to the attorney general, Jongewaard said “No such dispatch center appears to exist.” He went on to write, “Many people pass themselves off as first responders to bilk unaware and good-hearted citizens out of donations, the breadth of this apparent fraud is breathtaking.”
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