New Mural Helps Heal Young Burn Survivors

October 27, 2009 – The DC Firefighters Burn Foundation (DCFBF) – administered by active and retired Washington, DC Local 36 fire fighters – is hoping the new mural in the Children’s National Medical Center’s Emergency Trauma and Burn Services unit will help ease the discomfort of medical treatment for some young burn victims.

The Foundation commissioned artist Gayle Mangan Kassal to create a 234-square-foot coral reef mural. “A lot of the treatment in that room uses water,” says DCFBF President Jason Woods. “The artist suggested the underwater scene to create a calming effect.”

The DC Firefighters Burn Foundation has a long-standing relationship with Children’s National Medical Center, which treats more than 800 children with burn injuries each year. The Foundation is able to make these generous donations by conducting fundraisers and with generous sponsors such as Macys and George Washington University’s Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity.

For more information about the Foundation, click here.

Kassal is an artist from Annapolis, Maryland. She also created a similar mural for the Hasbro Children’s Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts.