Firefighters Families Can't Get Aid Yet

December 7, 2006 California - More than $1 million donated after an arson blaze killed five firefighters can't be distributed to their families because the charity didn't follow IRS rules. Riverside County asked the Central County United Way in Hemet to handle the donations when offers started pouring in after the U.S. Forest Service firefighters died in October. However, tax-exempt charitable organizations cannot raise money for a group as small and specific as the families of five firefighters ...