CLEVELAND, July 28, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- The Ohio Fire
Chiefs' Association has presented its 2017 Distinguished Service
Award to the Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation, recognizing the
organization's longstanding support of training programs for the
state's fire officers.
The Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation, charitable arm of
Dominion Energy Ohio's parent company, Dominion Energy, Inc., has
contributed $550,000 in grants to the
Ohio Fire and Emergency Services
Foundation (OFESF) since 2006, including $50,000 for 2017, noted Paul Wright, OFESF Chair. Dominion Energy
Charitable Foundation support has enabled OFESF to provide training
to more than 1,000 Ohio fire
officers over the past 11 years, Wright said.
The annual award honors an individual or group that has
performed outstanding services to the Ohio fire Chiefs Association, OFESF and the
Ohio fire service in general,
Wright said.
Along with grants from the Dominion Energy Charitable
Foundation, Dominion Energy Ohio also provides additional
real-world training by opening its employee Fire School training to
help firefighters learn to extinguish a variety of natural gas
fires under controlled conditions.
Dominion Energy Ohio trainers also travel to an average of two
area departments monthly to provide general natural gas safety and
carbon monoxide awareness information to firefighters.
"The people of the Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation and
Dominion Energy Ohio truly believe that a strong relationship is
beneficial to the fire departments and the communities that we all
serve," said Ben Kroeck, senior
philanthropy coordinator.
Dominion Energy and the Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation
support nonprofit causes that meet basic human needs, protect the
environment, promote education and encourage community vitality.
Dominion Energy Ohio is a unit of Dominion Energy (NYSE: D), one of
the nation's largest producers and transporters of energy. Dominion
Energy has a portfolio of approximately 26,200 megawatts of
generation, 15,000 miles of natural gas transmission, gathering and
storage pipeline, and 6,600 miles of electric transmission lines.
Dominion Energy operates one of the nation's largest natural gas
storage systems with 1 trillion cubic feet of storage capacity and
serves more than 6 million utility and retail energy customers. For
more information, visit
www.DominionEnergy.com.
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