Off-Duty Firefighters Work To Help The Lockhart Children

  • Tuesday, December 16, 2014
Firefighters are volunteering their time to help improve the home of the Lockhart family.
Firefighters are volunteering their time to help improve the home of the Lockhart family.
photo by Bruce Garner

Off-duty Chattanooga firefighters are doing what they can to help the three children who lost their parents in a terrible fire last month. Rebecca, 10, Haley, 9, and Mark, 8, are now staying with their grandparents, Susan and Gary Patterson, who live just around the corner from where the fire took the lives of Randall and Candy Lockhart at 220 Houser St. on Nov. 26.

The Pattersons live in a relatively small house at 608 Van Dyke St. and it’s in need of repair.  The off-duty firefighters were there on Tuesday, with power tools in hand.  

“This tragic fire had a tremendous impact on all of us,” said Captain Ashley May, coordinator of the project. “We’re just trying to make a few improvements here that will help the kids, and the grandparents, who didn’t have a lot of resources to begin with.”  

The firefighters are repairing a bathroom and making it handicapped accessible for one of the kids, and they’re also repairing vinyl siding on the house. 

Anyone who would still like to help this family can still do so by making a cash donation to the “Lockhart Relief Fund” at any First Tennessee branch office.

Repairs were made in the bathroom.
Repairs were made in the bathroom.
photo by Bruce Garner
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