People do care and here in my southwest Lansing neighborhood, they surrounded a family who lost their home during a early Friday morning fire. An overheated laptop left overnight on a living room couch is suspected to be the cause of the fire that destroyed all earthly possessions of the family of two adults and two children.
They were literally chased by the flames from their home on South Deerfield Avenue in the Averill Woods neighborhood here in Michigan’s State Capital City. It’s an area dotted with homes constructed during the late fifties and early sixties and called home by a diversity of people of varying cultures and ethnicities.
Two neighbor women–Tracy Valdez and Sue Galick–kicked into action before the flames were out helping Kristie Dunn and her family as they adjusted to the loss and readied to make the transitions to come.
To get the family through the weekend for all those daily life expenses that are so easily taken for granted, Tracy went door to door the next day. By going up and down the street of our middle-class neighborhood, she collected $500. Click on the picture to see the money being given to the family on Sunday.
Sue coordinated rides and visits to rummage sales and consignment shops to ensure that they had clothes to wear. There’s much more, I’m sure. Hey, these people care. I’m glad to call this neighborhood home and I’m glad to call these folks neighbors.
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