Chief of Fire Prevention, Ronald Spadafora, is currently a patient at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City. Chief Spadafora and his family would deeply appreciate your donation of blood and/or platelets and requests that you also ask others to donate. All donations that are not used by him will be released for use to other patients, many of whom are children. To benefit Chief Spadafora, all donations must be made in the Blood Donor Room of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Center. Please visit www.mskcc.org/blooddonations for complete information about donor eligibility and the donation process for blood or platelets. For answers to questions and to schedule an appointment that is convenient for you, please contact: Joe Licata – 212-639-8177 Manager, Blood Donor Program licataj@mskcc.org. Appointments are necessary – All blood types are acceptable. The Blood Donor Room – 212-639-7648, 1250 First Avenue (between 67th/68th Streets) NYC – Schwartz Building lobby. Open Every Day, Fri, Sat, Sun, Mon 8:30am – 3:00pm, Tues, Wed, Thurs 8:30am – 7:00pm. The process for donating whole blood takes approximately 1 hour. The process for donating platelets takes about 2 1/2 hours. FREE Donor Parking – Somerset Parking Garage, 1365 York Ave. – entrance on 72nd St, N.W. corner.

Note: If you have plans to go to Sloan for blood or platelet donations for Ron Spadafora, there is another Firefighter there that definitely needs his spirits raised. Firefighter Kyle Jameson, 34 years old, married with a son who is a year old, is at Sloan Kettering, Room 1232, 12th Floor. As per his wife, visitors (especially Firefighters) are encouraged due to his emotional state. FF Kyle Jameson, from Hampton FD, New Hampshire (IAFF L-2664), was flown from Boston to NY for emergent admission to Sloan. Below are some links about him:

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http://www.seacoastonline.com