ATCO Electric chooses Burn Treatment as the featured charity during their annual EPIC, Employees Participating in Communities, Campaign. The relationship between emergency responders and ATCO, combined with the fact that several of ATCO's employees are volunteer firefighters, makes The Firefighter's Burn Treatment Society a natural fit for the 2011 EPIC Campaign. The Recent wildfires in Slave Lake along with the 10th anniversary of 9/11 taking place last September were also contributing factors. This Campaign ran the last two week of September and featured some exciting and interesting events: a Chili cook off, an ATCO twist on The Firefighter Combat Challenge and even a "dunk your boss" dunk tank. With these events combined with employee driven donations, Burn Treatment received a donation in excess of $56000.
Burn Treatment was not the only organization to benefit from this campaign. Close to 500 other Alberta organizations share in this truly spectacular program that raised a total of $650000.
Burn Treatment is truly honoured, humbled and amazed by the sense of community and giving shown by ATCO's employees.