Firefighters and police battle as lumberjacks to help uninsured
By: Kyle Grainger - Email
Updated: Tue 9:21 AM, Feb 26, 2013
Firefighters teamed with lumberjacks to help raise money for the uninsured in Sevier County. (Source: Kyle Grainger, WVLT)
PIGEON FORGE, Tenn. (WVLT) -- Firefighters and police officers in Sevier County battled it out on Monday night to see who was the best lumberjack, in an effort to raise money for people who don't have medical insurance.
Right now the Mountain Shepherd Good Hope Clinic serves 17,000 people in Sevier County. Executive Director, Mary Vance, says the clinic is turning away 800 people a month because they don't have the funds necessary to support the needs of the community.
The Lumberjack Feud hosted the fundraiser that linked firefighters on one team and police officers on another, teamed with the shows professional lumberjacks.
Money raised in the event will help fund a full time dental hygienist at the clinic.
The firefighters won the competition.
Comments are posted from viewers like you and do not always reflect the views of this station.
powered by Disqus
Offbeat Headlines
Ferris wheel ride world record broken in Chicago Star chef killed over meal Texas senior, 18, bags 800-pound record alligator
Most Popular Stories
Ferris wheel ride world record broken in Chicago
Star chef killed over meal
Texas senior, 18, bags 800-pound record alligator
Fighting eagles crash land on Minn. airport runway
Wisconsin boy gets handwritten response from Biden
House passes 2-year moratorium on dam barriers
Obama pledges urgent aid to Oklahoma town
Former IRS commissioner heads to Hill amid scandal
Policy, discretion guide media sources probes
Senate to debate crop insurance in farm bill
WVLT VOLUNTEER TV
6450 Papermill Drive Knoxville, TN 37919 (865) 450-8888 - Phone (865) 450-8869 - Fax
Gray Television, Inc. - Copyright © 2002-2013 - Designed by Gray Digital Media - Powered by Clickability
User Agent: CCBot/2.0 - 193275741
