16 Jan 2025
Where Your Coffee Keeps These 5 Firefighters Fighting
While one day the fires will hopefully die down, fire fighters active and retired continue to serve every day. 

Here’s 5 giving it up and giving it back.

1. Fire Dept. Coffee • Rockford, IL

Luke Schneider is a retired firefighter/paramedic and U.S. Navy veteran, whose nonprofit Fire Dept. Coffee Foundation helps “firefighters and first responders who are injured on the job, mentally or physically, or who are facing other serious health challenges".

Luke Schneider, Fire Dept. Coffee

Luke Schneider, Fire Dept. Coffee

2. Muertos Coffee Co. • Sacramento, CA

Brothers Eli Held, an active firefighter and Max Held, a police officer created their Duty to Act Foundation, which donates 10% of profits to support first responders in need and those affected by line of duty deaths.

Max & Eli Held, Muertos Coffee Co.

Max & Eli Held, Muertos Coffee Co.

3. Tradition Coffee Roasters • Kailua, HI

Brian Burik, a retired FDNY Lieutenant and his wife Lindsey Burik’s coffee is made in Hawai’i with aloha, showing love and respect to the land. They work with small family farms, use recyclable coffee bags, and donate their byproduct coffee grounds and chaff to the Mauka Mushrooms organic farm to help build healthy soil!

Brian & Lindsey Burik, Tradition Coffee Roasters

Brian & Lindsey Burik, Tradition Coffee Roasters

4. Los Bomberos Café • Birmingham, AL

Danny Sanchez and Kurt Scheufens, coffee roasters and fire fighters, continue to serve every day with the Birmingham Fire Department.

Danny Sanchez & Kurt Scheufens, Los Bomberos Café

Danny Sanchez & Kurt Scheufens, Los Bomberos Café

5. Fire Grounds Coffee Company • Canton, TX

Paul Clarke is a Dallas Firefighter and Paramedic, a former Officer in the Marine Corps Reserves, and an Iraq Veteran. Kyle Lund is a Lieutenant for Dallas Fire and Rescue stationed at the swift water station, an Army Veteran, and served two tours in Iraq as an Infantry Squad leader in 2007-2008 and again in 2009-2010. Together their Caffeinate -A- Station program has donated over 1000 lbs of coffee to first responders throughout North Texas!

Paul Clarke & Kyle Lund, Fire Grounds Coffee Co

Paul Clarke & Kyle Lund, Fire Grounds Coffee Co

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