It has been two weeks since dozens of people lost everything in a fire that tore through their Hamilton St. apartment building. Today they got the Thanksgiving dinner every family deserves, courtesy of the Hartford Fire Department.
“The last time they saw us we were running into their home that was on fire, so to see us outside of work meant a lot to them,” said Firefighter Louis Arroyo. “It also meant a lot to us.”
With the help of Shoprite the firefighters took to the kitchen cooking the all the turkey and trimmings themselves.
“We had four turkeys two were baked, two were fried. We had some stuffing, some gravy, some corn and some green beans,” said Arroyo.
That is the same kind of menu the department dropped off earlier in the week to others across the area. The lined up frozen turkeys on their trucks and then delivered them to 12 families hit a little harder over the holidays.
“It was just a lot of hugs, a lot of ‘thank yous.’ It is a good feeling all around,” said Arroyo.
Today the Hartford Fire Department wasn’t the only ones looking to help out Hamilton. At Suso Latino Basket in Manchester, dinner was on them.
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“I just wanted to give something back,” said owner, Suso Seoane.
The families affected say its simple acts of kindness like these that are keeping them thankful.
“This is amazing. For someone to just see our story and open their restaurant for us and cook us dinner when we don’t have a place to cook our dinner is just tremendous,” said Michelle Peterson.
