
Rebuild Hope for Michelle and Domenick's Family
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My name is Rob and I'm starting this to help my cousin Michelle and Domenick Digiovannangelo and family after a devastating fire destroyed their home at 3am. Everyone was able to get out safely, their 2 dogs survived, but sadly they lost their sweet, beautiful cats. Everything was lost, as they needed to go buy clothes this morning.
Domenick is in bad health, currently on the waiting list for a heart transplant. The device he has is called an L-Vad; it pumps his blood as he is in late-stage heart failure. Stress from last night into today and moving forward from the loss isn't what he nor Michelle need right now.
Domenick is a retired Hammonton Vol Fire Dept #2 member and gained the job as Chief due to his years of service and knowledge gained by being a firefighter for 30+ years. Two of his sons are active duty and had to watch as their childhood home was lost to a fire.
They're the people that give you a place to stay; over the years, they have opened their doors to friends. If you talked about being hungry, they started to tell you where the food was at. They'd give you the shirt off their back and food off their plate so you didn't go hungry and stayed warm. Domenick is the type of man that will get out of his bed at 1am, leave a family gathering when a call comes over the scanner, no matter the weather, only thinking of saving a home or someone trapped in a car. Now he needs the community's help.
Organizer
Robert Mazzeo
Organizer
Hammonton, NJ