COMING TOGETHER TO HELP. JUST ONE DAY AFTER THIS HOUSE FIRE PUT TWO TODDLERS IN SERIOUS CONDITION AT THE HOSPITAL. DONATIONS ARE NOW IN FULL SWING. A PRIME EXAMPLE OF NEIGHBORS HELPING NEIGHBORS. GREEKTOWN IS A VERY, YOU KNOW, CLOSE COMMUNITY. UM, THE NEIGHBORS KNOW EACH OTHER. THEY TAKE CARE OF EACH OTHER. AND YOU REALLY GOT TO SEE THAT IN ACTION ON YESTERDAY AND TODAY AS PRESIDENT OF THE GREEKTOWN NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION SAYS DONATIONS ARE BEING ACCEPTED RIGHT NOW TO HELP THE FAMILY WHO ONCE CALLED THIS HOUSE ON OLDHAM STREET HOME. SHE SAYS THEY’RE COLLABORATING WITH THE KUMITE LATINO SOUTHEAST CDC AND THE JOHN ROSS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL TO ACCEPT CLOTHING ITEMS AND MONETARY DONATIONS. AS SOON AS THE COMMUNITY REALLY FOUND OUT ABOUT THE FIRE. WITHIN MINUTES, I HAD PEOPLE REACHING OUT FROM ALL OVER GREEKTOWN TO FIND OUT WHAT THEY COULD DO TO HELP THE FAMILY. THE BALTIMORE CITY FIRE DEPARTMENT SAYS. THE FIRE HAPPENED AROUND 1030 WEDNESDAY MORNING, SENDING TWO TODDLERS AND A MAN WHO RAN INTO RESCUE ONE OF THEM TO THE HOSPITAL AND THIS IS THE SECOND TIME IN ROUGHLY TWO MONTHS A FIRE HAS HAPPENED IN SOUTHEAST BALTIMORE INVOLVING CHILDREN. WE HAD ANOTHER ONE HERE UP ON LOMBARD STREET IN HIGHLAND TOWN. AND SO THIS IS VERY PAINFUL FOR OUR COMMUNITY. AND OUR THOUGHTS AND PRAYERS ARE WITH THOSE TWO CHILDREN. WE KNOW RIGHT NOW THEY’RE IN THE BAYVIEW BURN CENTER RECOVERING. WE ARE OPTIMISTIC. I SPOKE TO THE FIRE CHIEF ABOUT IT TODAY ABOUT THEIR RECOVERY. CITY COUNCILMAN ZEKE COHEN SAYS HE’S PROUD OF THE RESILIENCY HE’S SEEING FROM HIS DISTRICT. WHAT WE SEE IS THAT WHEN WE GET KNOCKED DOWN, WE PULL EACH OTHER BACK UP. AND THAT’S EXACTLY WHAT’S HAPPENED HERE. MY HEART REALLY FELT FOR THEM. AND IT DEFINITELY MOTIVATED ME A LITTLE BIT MORE TO TO TRY TO GET THINGS TOGETHER TO HELP ANY WAY THAT I COULD. AND ANY WAY GREEKTOWN COULD. AND IF YOU’D LIKE TO DONATE TO THE FAMILY, WE HAVE THAT INFORMATION ON WBZ TV.COM FROM GREEKTOW
Neighbors serving to neighbors after house fire sends two youngsters, one man, to hospital in Greektown
Baltimore City Fire Department stated the 2 toddlers have been taken to the hospital in critical situation with burns.
The Southeast Baltimore group is coming collectively to help one household, following a house fire that despatched two toddlers and one man to the hospital Wednesday. “As quickly because the group actually came upon in regards to the fire, inside minutes, I had people reaching out from throughout Greektown to discover out what they may do to help the household, what they may present,” stated Tricia Kontoudis, president of the Greektown Neighborhood Association. “It was actually, actually heartwarming to see.”Kontoudis described Greektown as a group that is close-knit, the place “the neighbors know one another and handle one another.”She added that she’s seen the household impacted across the neighborhood and at group occasions prior to now.”I’ve seen the mother and her two units of dual boys. She looks as if a fantastic mother, they usually look like a very nice and glad household. My ideas and prayers exit to them,” Kontoudis stated. Efforts to acquire donations for the household are taking place by means of a collaboration involving Comité Latino, Southeast CDC, the Greektown Neighborhood Association and Breath of God Lutheran Church. They’re accepting non-perishable meals gadgets and grownup and youth clothes on the John Ruhrah Elementary college at 701 Rappolla Street. They’re additionally accepting financial donations by means of this hyperlink. “What we see is that once we get knocked down, we pull one another again up, and that is precisely what’s occurred right here,” stated City Councilman Zeke Cohen. “Unfortunately, that is our second fire involving younger youngsters within the final two months right here in southeast Baltimore. This may be very painful for our group, and our ideas and prayers are with these two youngsters. We know proper now they’re within the Bayview Burn Center recovering. We are optimistic, I spoke to the fire chief about it immediately, about their restoration.” The explanation for the fire stays below investigation.
The Southeast Baltimore group is coming collectively to help one household, following a house fire that despatched two toddlers and one man to the hospital Wednesday.
“As quickly because the group actually came upon in regards to the fire, inside minutes, I had people reaching out from throughout Greektown to discover out what they may do to help the household, what they may present,” stated Tricia Kontoudis, president of the Greektown Neighborhood Association. “It was actually, actually heartwarming to see.”
Kontoudis described Greektown as a group that is close-knit, the place “the neighbors know one another and handle one another.”
She added that she’s seen the household impacted across the neighborhood and at group occasions prior to now.
“I’ve seen the mother and her two units of dual boys. She looks as if a fantastic mother, they usually look like a very nice and glad household. My ideas and prayers exit to them,” Kontoudis stated.
Efforts to acquire donations for the household are taking place by means of a collaboration involving Comité Latino, Southeast CDC, the Greektown Neighborhood Association and Breath of God Lutheran Church.
They’re accepting non-perishable meals gadgets and grownup and youth clothes on the John Ruhrah Elementary college at 701 Rappolla Street. They’re additionally accepting financial donations by means of this hyperlink.
“What we see is that once we get knocked down, we pull one another again up, and that is precisely what’s occurred right here,” stated City Councilman Zeke Cohen. “Unfortunately, that is our second fire involving younger youngsters within the final two months right here in southeast Baltimore. This may be very painful for our group, and our ideas and prayers are with these two youngsters. We know proper now they’re within the Bayview Burn Center recovering. We are optimistic, I spoke to the fire chief about it immediately, about their restoration.”
The explanation for the fire stays below investigation.
