A woman who was down on her luck didn’t have a good start to 2021, but things are looking up now. Betty Campbell has been working two jobs and living in a shed in her sister’s yard in Raleigh, North Carolina, after losing her house last year. A fire on New Year’s Eve destroyed everything the 76-year-old owned and the firefighters who put out the blaze were moved to help her.
“When I got back to the station, I kind of just couldn’t get her off my mind,” says Captain Dena Ali. So she reached out on Facebook to try to raise some money for Campbell to buy some clothes. Soon donations were pouring in, firefighter friends from across the country gave big and within 24 hours, they’d raised $4-thousand for her.
But the kindness didn’t stop there. Victor Company, a nonprofit made up of minority firefighters worked with Ameriglide to install a lift in Campbell’s sister’s house because she had trouble getting up and down the stairs. And Hiester Chevrolet made her a new set of keys because she lost hers in the fire. “This little situation showed me that we’re not as divided as we think,” Ali says. “I really think we truly share this common humanity that makes people want to look out for each other.”
Source:WRAL