The fire crew at Station 16 'B' shift had responded on a few occasions to the residence of Beverly Berry who lives with her brother who is blind. On one of those occasions they found out that Beverly's wheelchair had been stolen. Beverly, who lives in a second floor apartment, has to be carried down a flight of stairs and placed in her wheelchair that is kept at the bottom of the stairs outside. One day the wheelchair disappeared.
Random Acts received a phone call from Firefighter Sean Brown who asked if we could get Beverly a new wheelchair. Random Acts contacted the Wheelchair Foundation which is located in the Blackhawk Auto Museum in Danville, California and has distributed over half a million wheelchairs to disabled people worldwide. They had one to give us, and the crew assembled it at the fire station.
The day the fire crew went to deliver the wheelchair to Beverly, she was not in the best of health and was not able to get up from the couch to sit in it and try it out. But, she was very grateful and thanked the crew who visited. Beverly has family members who come by to assist her, and they will be able to carry the wheelchair and her downstairs to take her for a ride.
