CFBTS and MediaScene Team Up

The Calgary Firefighters Burn Treatment Society is very happy to announce that we are teaming up with MediaScene Inc in an effort to expand our fundraising needs.

MediaScene will be selling Community Values coupon books beginning October 23, 2011 and continuing on with the program well into 2012. The coupon books will feature over $1000.00 in gift certificates and are available for just $25.00 – includes shipping! A portion of the proceeds will go to the Calgary Firefighters Burn Treatment Society to help fund the Calgary Firefighters Burn Treatment Centre at the Foothills Hospital.

Highlights

• Over $1000.00 worth of fun, food and things to do from the very best Calgary businesses.
• Featuring Joey’s Seafood, Goodlife, the Laugh Shop, the National Academy Golf Dome and many more!
• $5.00 from every purchase goes to support Calgary Firefighters Burn Treatment Society.
• Makes a great gift!

MediaScene representatives will carry an ID badge with their name as well as the CFBTS logo at all times when selling the Community Values coupon books which also feature the CFBTS logo.

Once again, coupon books are just $25.00 and can be purchased in our donate or purchase section. If you have any questions on the program you can contact the Calgary Firefighters Burn Treatment Society at 403-701-2876.

The CFBTS is proud to present “Concierto for Care”

The Calgary Firefighters Burn Treatment Society & the Calgary YWCA present “Concierto for Care”, July 19, 2012!
We’re going high class with performances from the renowned Baritone Eduardo Muñoz-Zúñiga and Pianist Timothy G. Ruff Welch.

Tickets are only $50 (adult) or $40 (youth) for this high society event!
July 19, 2012
5:00pm to 7:00pm
Irene Besse Concert Hall – Bay 152, 6999 11 St. SE (Deerfoot Meadows)

Cocktails and hors d’oeuvres will be served, plus multiple live and silent auctions.
(No credit cards accepted. Cash and cheques only.)

All proceeds from this event will be divided equally between the YWCA of Calgary and the Calgary Firefighters Burn Treatment Society.

To purchase tickets, contact Tina Buckthorp at 403-473-3579 or email ac.wahsnull@erac4otreicnoc

Check out “Concierto for Care” on CTV Calgary!

2012 Canadian Burn Survivors Conference

Calgary is honoured to be hosting the 2012 Canadian Burn Survivors Conference from June 6 – 9, 2012, themed “Renewal of Spirit.”

We are very excited about the two keynote speakers: Spencer Beach who learned that “sometimes tragedy chooses you for no reason at all,” a negative experience can become something positive, perseverance can overcome adversity; and Curtis Weber who is committed to making a difference in the safety of people at work and at play by keeping a positive outlook on a tragic situation.

There will be a film presentation “Trials By Fire: Lives Re-Forged” featuring JR Martinez from Dancing with the Stars. In addition, the conference offers other speakers, complimentary healers, breakout sessions, panel discussions, and time to share stories and network with burn survivors and families.

Registration Information

Please download the CBSC Event Registration Brochure.

For more information and registration information visit canadianburnsurvivors.ca.

SOAR – Survivors Offering Assistance in Recovery

Calgary is one of only two hospitals in Canada that offers the Survivors Offering Assistance in Recovery “SOAR” program designed by the Phoenix Society.

The hospital based program is intended to make it easier for burn centers to work with volunteers in providing peer support to patients. Peer support assists individuals in adapting to a burn injury through sharing similar experiences.

The SOAR training program empowers volunteers with information and skills needed to provide appropriate forms of support. If you would like more information about the Calgary Firefighters Burn Treatment Centre SOAR Program please contact Tanya Miller at ac.secivreshtlaehatreblanull@rellim.aynatta. Also, visit the SOAR website.

It’s the 2nd Annual Tails to Tell Ladies Night!

Your ladies night awaits at the Woodside Golf Course in Airdrie, April 21 2012! Be waited on by the HOTTEST firefighters Alberta has to offer!

The Hotstuff guys will be joined by firefighters from across Alberta for one night only!

    and a long stem red rose!

Live auction, silent auction, or buy the shirt right off of the firefighters back!

Cocktails start at 5:00pm. The Firefighter Auction starts promptly at 6:00pm

This is a formal event! The ATM onsite has limited available funds, so please bring cash! Free parking is available.

Purchase your tickets ONLINE or by calling 403-946-0011. Hurry, as tickets will sell out!

BE SAFE! Plan a ride home, or stay over night nearby! We recommend the BEST WESTERN (403) 948-3838

Our Super Ladies Night was an incredible success, and we have one of our key sponsor to thank.

The Calgary Firefighters Burn Treatment Society would like to extend a heartfelt thank you to the Sheraton Cavalier Hotels & Resorts for their support of our Super Ladies Night event.

The event was a tremendous success and that can only happen with the support of key sponsors like the Sheraton Cavalier Hotels & Resorts of Calgary.

We’ve got the men of Cuffs and Collars together with the Calgary Hotsfuff Firefighter calendar guys!

Ladies, interested in the hottest show in town featuring hot guys, hot firefighters, a few more hot guys, a few more hot firefighters, and… okay, you get the point. Of course you are, so we’ve lined up just the show for you on Wednesday March 21 at The Back Alley Nightclub.

Ladies, please join us on Wednesday March 21 at The Back Alley Nightclub (show starts at 10:00pm) for a Super Ladies Night. On Super Ladies Night we’ll be having a one of a kind show. We’ve got the guys from Cuffs and Collars putting on their world famous Chippendales Show, plus the Calgary Hotstuff Firefighters in the crowd raising money for the Burn Treatment Society.

Win a Dinner Date

Win a dinner date with your favourite Hotstuff Firefighter. Simply buy a raffle ticket for your chance to win (1 for $2.00, or 3 for $5.00).

A limo will take you and the firefighter of your choice out on date at a secret location all courtesy of The Back Alley.

Buy as many raffle tickets as you want. All proceeds go to support the Calgary Firefighters Burn Treatment Society.

Get Complimentary Admission

We would like to give you and a guest complimentary admission to this event. To get yours, just print off an event ticket and show it at the door before 10:00pm, and you’re in! See you there.

Investigators: Jeff Biernaskie (project leader), University of Calgary; Vincent Gabriel, University of Calgary

Description: The surgical standard of care for deep burns and wounds is autologous split thickness skin grafting (STSG). It can be done quickly and may be lifesaving. Unfortunately, because only the superficial layers of skin can usually be harvested, STSGs do not contain the normal complement of dermal cells within them and thus are incapable of generating normal skin appendages (hair follicles, sweat and oil glands).

Consequently, STSGs are dry, hard, itchy, relatively insensate and aesthetically displeasing skin. We previously isolated and characterized a dermal stem cell that resides in mammalian hair follicles. These dermal stem cells function to induce hair follicle formation/regeneration and are important for maintenance and repair of the dermis. They can also generate multiple dermal cell types. More recently we have also isolated a similar precursor from the adult human skin. Based on these findings, we will ask whether human dermal stem cells are capable of replenishing dermal tissue within STSGs, and whether they improve the overall function of grafted skin. We are transplanting these adult human dermal precursor cells into a model of human STSG we developed. We are also evaluating non-invasive imaging techniques to measure outcomes in wound healing. Furthermore, we are conducting patient interviews with people whom have had STSG to collect information on their experiences living with skin grafts. With funding support from the Calgary Firefighters Burn Treatment Society, this will project will provide preliminary data and a patient centered guide for our future human clinical trials using a patient’s own stem cell transplants to improve outcomes in split thickness skin grafting, the most commonly performed surgery for deep burns and other wounds.

Benefits: The outcomes from this project will allow us to design and carry out patient-centered and clinically-relevant translational research into applying autologous skin precursors to modify outcomes in wound healing and split thickness skin grafting, the most common and gold standard of clinical surgical care in deep burns and wounds.

Term: 2011-12

Come on out to the Southport – Link to Atrium on December 14 from 11:00am to 2:00pm for a Hotstuff Calendar signing. We need your support so we hope to see you there.

We have all heard of the Hotstuff calendar. Twelve pages of chiseled abs and provocative poses that feature our city’s firefighters. Women and even some men wait patiently for each year’s issue to come out so they can plaster their walls with the men who keep our city safe.

On Oct.5, The Calgary Firefighters Burn Treatment Society threw its second annual fundraiser event the, “Win a date with a Hotstuff Firefighter” at the Back Alley nightclub. The event featured 14 of the featured Hotstuff Calendar Firefighters as they were raffled off to four lucky ladies who get to go on a date with their choice of firefighter. One Hundred per cent of the proceeds go to the Foothills Hospital Burn Unit.

“We could not do what we do without the help and time that these guys spend.” The Hotstuff Calendar is just one of several events the Burn Treatment Society puts on to raise money for the Burn Unit at the Foothills hospital. With the money raised, Foothills Medical Center decides what the unit needs most and purchases these items to improve the unit’s service.

The Hotstuff Firefighters donate their time for one full year to help the charity.

“We could not do what we do without the help and time that these guys spend.” said society director Thomas Kerr.

Although the fundraiser had to compete for the ladies attention with “Body Heat” a group of male strippers who perform at the Back Alley for ladies night, each firefighter walked around and were able to sell a substantial amount of tickets for an event that they feel has a great cause.

“As a firefighter you get to see people in the initial stage of their burns and you know how long and hard the road to recovery is, so anything we can do to make it easier for burn victims is totally worth coming out and canvassing the community.” said Casey Haddock, a Calgary firefighter.

“It’s going to a great cause and to some deserving people.” Looking around the Back Alley with Katy Perry’s “I Kissed a Girl” glaring in the background the volunteer firefighters worked hard talking to guests trying to sell the red raffle tickets that symbolize the money that will go to the Foothills Medical Center, Burn Unit. With red tickets in almost every woman’s hands, the ladies waited for their chance to win a date with one of the featured firefighters.

“I haven’t been out in 20 years,” exclaims Linda Hagman a 50-year-old grandma. “ My daughter dragged me out here. Its all in the name of charity that’s why I’m here, to support the firefighters.” Hagman said while folding her red tickets into her palm.

As the night continued the city’s firefighters gathered on stage and waited to be chosen to go on a date. Each firefighter standing on stage was slightly red from blushing in the bright lights but they were all grinning cheek-to-cheek, happy to be there.

When the winning ticket numbers were called you could hear screams of joy and excitement. The lucky winners were: Melissa Volk with Devin Uhrynchuk, Shaunna Brimacombe with Brad Lawrence, Stephanie Wamsteeker with Ryan Poirrer and Karen Queiroga with Neil Brown.

“I kept saying please, please, please, please call my number” exclaims Queirago, who won the date for her daughter’s upcoming 18th birthday.

When asked how it felt being up on stage during the selection process firefighter Brown said, “ Oh man, this is why I’m not a stripper.”

Kerr who was featured in the 2008 Hotstuff Calendar and also conducts annual tours of the burn unit to the calendars firefighters was more than happy with the outcome of the night.

“After that you can’t stop. Its amazing to see where it all goes,” says Kerr. “It’s going to a great cause and to some deserving people.”

The event raised $500, which all the proceeds will go to Foothills Burn Unit.