Oakland Firefighters Random Acts extends a heartfelt Thank You for your participation in our 2015 Holiday Toy Drive.  Thanks to your toy donations, Oakland Firefighters delivered over 1,000 gift wrapped presents to children in need in under-served neighborhoods in the Oakland community.  Firefighters played Santa Claus and delivered toys to 6 Head Start programs, the Brighter Beginnings teen parenting program, and the East Oakland Boxing Association after-school program.  Random Acts also responded to all the 'Letters to Santa' and 'Letters to Firefighters' that children dropped off at Oakland fire stations, and fulfilled all the requests from families that stopped by or contacted a fire station in need of toys for their children.  Random Acts volunteers gift wrapped the toys, and Oakland Firefighters personally delivered the bags of presents to the family's houses on their fire engines.  The kids were just as excited to see the fire engine and Firefighters as they were to receive the toys. 

To truly appreciate what your toy donations mean to Random Acts and the children who receive them is to see the smiles on the children's faces when they open their presents and express their excitement and joy unwrapping their toys.  Please click on the link below to view a YouTube video of children opening their presents delivered by Oakland Firefighters.