As most of us are busy with preparing for Christmas with shopping for gifts, preparing foods for family gatherings, cleaning and decorating our houses for family members coming back home from colleges and jobs; there is a nearby family who was forced to leave their warm home due to the fire on December 1, 2021 in a low-income mobile home park. The fire caused by old electrical system of the very old house. The family is struggling with anxiety of the loss and the future living space.

 

My name is Duc Luu. I have been on 24/7 calls for helping the ederly couple (75+ years old) for years as they are living alone in that old mobile home in Candlewood Manor mobile park, 4500 Martin Way East, Olympia, Washington.

 

The husband had four strokes since early 1990s, the latest one was in May 2021. He has been admitted to hospitals by ambulance at least 2 times a year since 2015 with complicated symptoms. As his wife is the main and only caregiver for the husband, her health condition has been deteriorated in recently month. The social security income is their only source and they spend for mobile home rent, electricity which is very high due to the low quality of mobile home insulation, and an old car and its related expenses, etc.

 

I am not their relative. I only met them at church decades ago and became a close friend and a checker who lend them a hand whenever they need: bringing them to doctor appointments, calling 911 when they need, interpreting calls from doctors and social workers, staying at ER rooms during emergency.

 

Not like many of our situation, their mobile home is too old to obtain a fire insurance policy from any insurer. This fire considered as a huge disaster exaxtly as our home got fired in our home country in Vietnam, where there is no home insurance. With the estimate from licensed inspector and Olympia Fire Department, the damage cost about 10K to 25K to repair so that the home can be restored to habituable condition. The cost includes expensive inspection fees, license fees, contractors and materials.

 

I ask you on behalf of the couple, first of all, please pray God for keeping them coping well with anxiety and their medical condition. Then would you please think about sharing with them the gift God has given to each of us. Such as:

 

 

Those small sharings will make a huge impact for the couple because we all do as a group of hundreds of warm-heated people.

 

I wish all repairs completed and the house restored as soon as possible so the couple can come back to the house. The husband has been on dialysis machine for 12 hours each day and it will be very difficult for him and his wife when living temporary in shelter or other people house.