The victims of Tuesday’s fires in Bristol are getting community support and perhaps just a little hope.
A series of Go Fund Me pages were launched hours after the flames were doused with their homes and worldly possessions in smoldering ash.
As of Thursday morning Borough fire and emergency management officials have said little about the fire, and plan to release information publicly perhaps later today, one official said Wednesday.
According to documents Lower Bucks Source obtained late Wednesday, 19 fire companies from across the area were put into service to fight the blaze that badly damaged the six row homes on the 600 block of Spruce Street.
The Croydon Fire Company posted a helmet cam and drone video of the firefighters battling the raging blaze. A first responder source said Wednesday to expect additional video to be released from the Third District Fire Company in the coming days also.
From the drone view you can see the roof of one of the homes spit flames upward and outward as firefighters hose the blaze from front to back, attempting to reduce the spread.
Meanwhile fire victims were staged at a local church with the American Red Cross providing support with Bristol Emergency Management officials. Soon thereafter Bristol residents and beyond started to take up clothing and need collections for fire victims.
One area resident, who saw a mother and her five children “running for their lives” out of one of the burning homes and offered to help in any way she could.
“I want so badly to help them” she said.
The Bucks County Bulldogs are hosting a donation drop off and sort event at the Calvary Baptist Church, 250 Green Lane from 6:30-8:30 pm for the families of the Spruce Street fires. We will then be back with open doors from 9-10:30am on Sunday and inviting the families to come and take what they need, said Venessa Lee.
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Not long after as is customary in small tight communities neighbors began to offer spare bedrooms, couches, to victims to rest on a gather themselves and to escape, just for a moment, the trauma inflicted by the fires.
The Bucks County Fire Marshal’s office is investigating the fires.
Below are the fundraisers created on Go Fund Me for the fire victims that have been shared with Lower Bucks Source. If we missed any please email a link to Jeff.Bohen17@Gmai.com
Give if you can.
https://www.gofundme.com/f/laura-merritt
https://www.gofundme.com/f/anf8yy-family-of-7-house-fire
https://www.gofundme.com/f/f8x4f-helping-my-mom
https://www.gofundme.com/f/f8x4f-helping-my-mom
https://www.gofundme.com/f/house-fires-in-bristol
https://www.gofundme.com/f/j7k9q2-burned-down-house
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