St. Florian Fire and Burn Foundation

Our Mission
St. Florian is a non-profit organization whose purpose is to reduce burn injuries and mortality through education and research, and to assist burn survivors and their families in maintaining a high quality of life.

Our History
St. Florian was founded in 1993 through the efforts and partnership of dedicated Nurses at the St. Luke's Burn Center and the Sioux City Professional Firefighters with IAFF Local #7. It was founded with the express purpose of reducing the number of injuries and deaths associated with burn trauma in Sioux City and the surrounding communities. St. Florian has helped purchase the Children’s Fire Safety House used by the SCFD and visited by thousands of school children annually.

The nurses and firefighters also felt a need to start a local burn camp that children with burns from the Siouxland area could attend annually. St. Florian partnered up with the YMCA camp at Camp Foster on East Lake Okoboji in 1995 and Miracle Burn Camp was born.

In 2004 St. Florian began sponsoring a local SOAR (Survivors Offering Assistance in Recovery) program to provide peer support for local burn survivors. See Support Groups. SOAR is a program developed by The Phoenix Society for Burn Survivors, Inc.

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