Donation number keeps rising

Amber Willard

SOUTHWEST GLENDALE -- Glendale Fire officials were still working

Monday to count the donations they received Saturday at a benefit

breakfast and in the following days.

By Monday afternoon, they had reached $61,600. The donations were for

a fund to aid the families of New York firefighters killed Sept. 11 when

the World Trade Center towers collapsed.

Donations kept coming in Sunday and Monday, so the total kept rising,

officials said.

"It varies every day," Fire Marshal Steve Howard said.

The department is still collecting donations for the fund at Station

21, 421 Oak St.