Operation Fire Cuffs brings Vermont law enforcement, first responders to UVM Children’s Hospital [Video]

STEADY MIX OF IN PERSON AND ONLINE SALES THIS HOLIDAY SEASON. DOZENS OF POLICE OFFICERS… FIRST RESPONDERS… AND VERMONT STATE TROOPERS STOOD IN TODAY FOR SANTA AND HIS ELVES. AT THE U-V-M CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL. THIS AFTERNOON, AGENCIES FROM ALL ACROSS THE STATE HELPED TO DELIVER TOYS TO CHILDREN WHO WILL LIKELY SPEND THEIR HOLIDAY IN THE HOSPITAL THIS YEAR. THE INITIATIVE, WHICH IS KNOWN AS OPERATION FIRE CUFFS, STARTED MORE THAN TEN YEARS AGO. IT GROWS MORE AND MORE EACH YEAR. THIS YEAR, POLICE, FIREFIGHTERS, TEACHERS, AND EVEN U.S. áMARSHALS COLLECTED áTHOUSANDS OF DOLLARS WORTH OF NEW TOYS AND GIFT CARDS, FILLED UP THEIR TRUCKS, AND BROUGHT SOME JOY TO THE CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL. <DR. LEWIS FIRST: “When a child “When a child needs to be in the hospital for the holidays that can be so difficult but when the community comes together and puts their arms around the patients we …