Wednesday, July 19, 2006

Bearing Gifts

Station 5, 'B' shift, visited a house on 34th Avenue bearing gifts and good will to a family that was involved in a shooting incident one year ago where five people had been shot. The tragic incident, to which the crew had responded, took the life of a woman's nephew and left her to care for his four children in addition to two of her own. Recently, while the same crew responded to a medical incident at another house next door, they encountered this family sitting on their porch still grieving their loss a year later. The Firefighters returned to visit them today bringing toys and sporting equipment for the children and an Albertsons gift card and a cosmetics gift bag for the woman. Regardless of how long it is after an incident occurs, the healing process goes on indefinately.