Phony fundraising scam.   No authorization from, or connection to, local fire and police departments.

Phone fundraising scam.  I am in FL and why would I support firefighters in CA and not FL!!

They left us a message robocall this time.  It said "hi, this is John from the shipping department.........."
They want to verify your address and credit card number so they can ship your diabetic supplies.  This is a Medicare scam.

They keep calling and leave voice mails saying "Is Tonya there?". Tonya is my first name and the female voice initially sounded like my dentist's but the number did not match so I did not reply. The same voice called several times and then at least two other voices called several times with the same question. Today I had a nice deep male voice calling that said  "Is Tonya there? A-a-a..." and then he did not know how to continue.

I finally got curious to search for the number and see what other people are saying about it. So they are fighters of some sort :-)

This is a scam, calling on behalf of firefighters.  My wife answered, and the caller asked for her by name.  She asked him who he was and he said he was calling for a charity benefiting our local firefighters.  This is a scam that has been around for years, so they must be finding a lot of suckers.  It is impossible to get them to quit calling.