SERVPRO® Team Harvey Creates First Responders Superbowl Squares Contest

3/1/2024 (Permalink)

SERVPRO® Team Harvey’s First Responders Superbowl Squares Contest was created to support and celebrate local responders.

On February 23, 2024 SERVPRO® of Aberdeen/Holmdel (aka, SERVPRO® Team Harvey) hosted a pizza dinner for over 50 firefighters during a training session at Keyport’s Ladder Number One. The Keyport Fire Department was the lucky winner of SERVPRO® Team Harvey’s First Responders Superbowl Squares Contest, which was created to support and celebrate local responders. 

“Often in our line of work we can’t do our job until first responders have done theirs. Many of the first responders in the communities we serve are volunteers, and we wanted to come up with an original way to thank these brave individuals for their selfless dedication to our safety,” said Lance Harvey, Owner/President of SERVPRO® Team Harvey. “We felt that running a contest and providing pizza during a training session for the winning firehouse was a fun way to show our appreciation.” 

This was the first year that SERVPRO® Team Harvey ran the contest, which followed the same rules as the squares betting game that is so popular during the football season. SERVPRO® Team Harvey used an online football squares site to automatically generate a game grid with the names of ten local, volunteer firefighter companies. The firehouse that coordinated with the last digits of the final score won the contest. This year, the lucky winner was Keyport. 

SERVPRO® Team Harvey’s commitment to first responders on the local level mirrors SERVPRO’s® commitment on the national level. For example, SERVPRO® hosts the First Responder Bowl every year, where a game is played in honor of first responders, and a peer-nominated first responder receives an Award of Excellence. Also, this year SERVPRO® will be the national title sponsor of 2024’s Firefighter Challenge League, which is a competition showcasing firefighters’ physical fitness and mental toughness. 

“SERVPRO® Team Harvey is proud to be a part of an organization dedicated to honoring these heroes, and looks forward to continued engagement with the first responders in the communities we serve,” said Harvey.