TWIN LAKES — Several area fire departments received help from downstate fire departments as part of the Our Firehouse to Yours nonprofit organization. More than $1 million worth of used firefighting equipment and supplies were made available at the Twin Lakes Fire Hall Friday and Saturday for local departments to come by and select what their departments needed.

Our Firehouse to Yours cofounder Denny Hughes, director of emergency services for Belfor Property Restoration, said the nonprofit was founded around 10 years ago and collects used fire equipment from areas such as Detroit, Lansing and Grand Rapids and, instead of letting it become discarded donates the equipment to smaller, rural depaertments. The group is made up of active and retired firefighters, and such, Hughes said they unde

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