Hundreds donate blood following mass shooting at Orlando club
Source: jacksonville.com
By Dana Treen & Joe Daraskevich
When a mobile blood unit opened in downtown Jacksonville on Monday, Capt. Stephen Suarez of Tampa Fire Rescue was the first on board.
Suarez, the president of the Tampa firefighters union, is in Jacksonville for the annual union meeting and said he was responding to an urgent call for donations following Orlando’s nightclub shooting with dozens of casualties.
“They called for an urgent need,” he said after getting off the donation bus. “They need all the blood they can get.”
The donation bus is a part of OneBlood — the community blood bank in Northeast Florida as well as throughout most of the state.
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Capt. Stephen Suarez is the president of the Tampa firefighters union and was the first to give blood at the Hyatt in Jacksonville where there is a state meeting of fire unions.
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