Strangers help fire victims have ‘Merry Christmas’
A Fayetteville family was bracing for a very dim Christmas. On Dec. 13, fire heavily damaged the apartment they had just moved into and burned their presents.
Posted — UpdatedThe Christmas gifts bought for Amanda Deese's children were destroyed.
Porter's leg burned. The Christmas tree burned. Much of the apartment on Homeplace Court burned. The Christmas presents – bought for children Christopher and Halie the day before – burned.
The family didn't have renters insurance or money to buy new gifts, but then people came forth offering help.
First, their landlord gave them another home. Then the American Red Cross got their story out to the public, and people began bearing gifts.
Even a single mom, struggling herself this year, came to help.
Christopher and Halie now have more gifts than before the fire.
"It makes me believe there are still some good-hearted people out there. There is a Christmas spirit still living,” Deese said
Porter spent a few hours in the hospital for burns to his leg, but he has since returned to work and is OK.
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