Fundraising for Fire Victims
Donation protected
December 8th 2012 was a very bad day for us, I woke up to things falling on the floor in the store, and when I went outside to see what was going on I saw flames in 2 of the back sections of our grocery store. I then grabbed my hose and started spraying into the window where I saw flames, and told my wife to get the key to the store, once she opened the door, I went inside to hold the fire down until the fire
department could get there in hopes to salvage all our personal stuff
downstairs, just as I was making progress, the fire burned the circuit
that our water pump was connected to and I lost all water pressure, I
then went downstairs where my wife had already gotten our 4 year old daughter out and
began getting things as fast as I could. I wanted to salvage what i could, But before I could make it to the
bedroom for my daughters stuff or any of our clothes, the fire was to hot
and began falling thru the ceiling. EVERYTHING was lost, All 3 of our businesses, and our home and all the contents in the whole building. We spent 8 years working very hard to build what we had, days nights sometimes even 32 hours straight, and in less than 30 minutes it was all gone. We were planning
on having our 4 year old daughters birthday party the next day however everything we had
for her was lost in the fire. Even the revolving money for ll 3 businesses was lost in the fire. My wife is now 8 months pregnant, and what we had prepared for our newborn child and our daughter for Christmas and the delivery has all been taken away in a quick flash. We now have absolutely nothing, no home, no way to get the money
back, no income, we had to watch as our whole life savings went up in
flames. We both
are so sad, on our daughters birthday there was a typhoon, now the day
before her party we loose everything. We are having a hard time
explaining this to her when she starts asking for her green pillow or her
laptop cootter, or her dora movies, It truly has been the worst
experience of my life. I tried everything I could even have a few burns
on my arms and legs trying my best to hold the fire down until the
department got there. It took them 30 minutes to respond and by then all
was in flames the roof had blown off and the floor dropped thru. We have posted more pictures here on our facebook site if you want to see all of the building. http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.530510200306423.123006.100000423434974&type=3 If
you can think of any way to help us out we sure would appreciate it. 1 dollar 5 dollars anything at all would be greatly appreciated. Thank you so much.
Organizer
Leroy Fodor
Organizer
St. Clairsville, OH
