- Firefighters National Trust
- Gig Harbor, WA
- Web URL: firedonations.org
- Leadership: Mr. Stephen J. Careaga
- Secretary and Lawyer: David Martin Otto
- Filing Date: August 6th 2001
As chance would have it, Firefighters National Trust (FNT) was the only online site accepting donations for firefighters' families that was up and running at the time of the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
Through a quick partnership with Yahoo, firehouse.com, and other high traffic web sites that gave the site massive exposure, firedonations.org suddenly found itself getting as many as 1,000 hits per second from concerned people worldwide looking to help.
Firefighters National Trust was a non-profit charity that was set up by Stephen Careaga a volunteer firefighter. When the attacks on 9/11 hit, the online charity grossed over $11 million dollars. Careaga was using this new acquired money to support large salaries, extravagant perks, and fund other companies so that extra money could be tied to a legimitate expense. In doing this Careaga denied the vitctims in which the donations were inteded to be foretrying to make a living selling computer software to Firehouses, in which he used Firefighters National Trust to open doors for him.
Patrick Joseph Lochrie would later partner with Stephen Careaga in Reality Wireless. Otto would be enjoined by the SEC