Former clerk spends retirement savings to help volunteer firefighters

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http://www.sun-sentinel.com/fl-lighthouse-point-dying-clerk-donates-20130710,0,2673302.story

Former Lighthouse Point City Clerk Carol Landau saved all her life so she could retire and travel the country, but now she's giving that money away.

Not to anybody she knows, but to volunteer fire departments in places she'd never been until she arrived in her motor home and knocked on their doors with a checkbook in hand.

She began donating this year after being diagnosed as terminally ill, giving some of the rural departments more money than they receive in their paltry annual budgets. She has paid for needed equipment and protective gear, well aware of the underfunded but life-saving work the volunteers do.

"We've been fighting for years to get anything we could," said Chief Kevin Altman of the Odum, Ga., volunteer department, who received an $11,200 check that exceeded his $9,800 annual budget. "Most of the stuff we get is hand-me-downs."

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