OUR MILESTONES

  • Founded in 1977 by a small group of firefighters that saw a need for a burn unit in Edmonton. 
  • Magic Show 1977 through 1983 final total raised $2,975,000.00
  • 1982 - 11 Bed Unit Opens at the University of Alberta Hospital. Dedicated name "Firefighters Burn Treatment Unit"
  • 1987 Hosted First Alberta Burn Camp
  • 2008 Alberta Firefighters' Burn Camp found a new home at Easter Seal Camp Horizon.
  • 2009 Became a member of the International Association of Burn camps.
  • 2010 Recipients of the John A.Moncref Award, American Burn Foundation

A PERSONAL REFLECTION

"The Burn Treatment Unit is where you will find highly educated, strongly
motivated and extremely caring and dedicated individuals who give of
themselves to the burn survivors and their families when they need it. The
burn unit is a place where tears are shed and joyful laughs are heard. It is
a place of pain which then becoming a place of friends. It's a place where
lives are saved, rebuilt, rediscovered and hope for a future is never lost.
It is because of the Burn Treatment Unit that my children have a father, my
wife has a husband and I have found peace with my scars."  

Spencer Beach