Blood Drive for Injured Fire Fighter

The Members of the Wiedman Family, The Members of Rescue 2 FDNY, and Members of the BFD

would like to thank all that turned out to donate their blood & time..

as of last count 474 pints of blood were donated and many more people were given paper work to fill out and donate at the NY Blood Center in FF Wiedman's name.

this last report comes from 1^ST VDG Sharon, who was there most of the day as a volunteer.

Anyone that may be O negative blood type, please consider donating blood  for Rob Wiedmann. 

He was one of the FDNY members burned on Monday in  Brooklyn. Rob is also the brother of Chief Doug Wiederman from Baldwin and an Islip volunteer firefighter.
Call NY Blood Center 1800-439-6876 for appt . and tell them it’s  for Rob Wiedmann patient #203859 file # 71614.

Firefighter Robert Wiedmann, burned Monday over half his body while battling a Brooklyn blaze, will undergo the first of many surgeries Friday during what's expected to be months in the hospital and a year of rehabilitation to recover, one of his doctors said Monday.

Wiedmann, 38, of Islip Terrace, will have the surgery at New York-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center in Manhattan, where he is recovering, said Dr. Roger W. Yurt, burn-center director.

The firefighter, who remains in critical condition, is expected to be there for six to eight weeks and have at least one surgery a week. Most of his injuries were third-degree burns.

"There's a long road to go," Yurt said of the operations, which will include skin grafts.