Ride for Boo

Take a few minutes to visit our photo page (click PHOTOS in menu) to see our 2011 Beer for Boo event.  Images provided courtesy of Thomas Photographic Services. 

Martin O’Malley, received the first Brian Carey Scholarship recipient to Brother Rice High School. The scholarship awarded was a four-year scholarship of $1500.00 per year. Congratulations Martin!

76 motorcycles, 6 automobiles, and the city of Chicago’s Fire Academy Ladder Truck participated in the ‘Fallen Axes Run’. Escorted out-of-town by the Homewood Fire Department’s Ambulance, a Homewood Police motorcycle and two Illinois State Police motorcycles. The ride started at approximately 11:40 am, as participants pulled through the Homewood Fire Station’s bay out onto [...]

Fallen Homewood firefighter Carey to be honored in Springfield – The SouthtownStar. BY VICTORIA JOHNSON Correspondent May 12, 2011 7:58AM Bikers pull out of the Homewood Fire Department for the Fallen Axes Run to Springfield, part of a fundraiser for fallen firefighters including one of their own, Brian Carey, in Homewood, Ill., on Wednesday, May, [...]

Ride for Boo/The Brian Carey Memorial Fund, Inc. was established to facilitate donations to charities and organizations, to aid firefighters and their families in times of great tragedy, and to fund a scholarship in Brian’s memory. On Tuesday, March 30, 2010, shortly before 9:00 PM, the Homewood Fire Department was dispatched to a report of [...]