Firefighters, friends and other volunteers on the South Side came out on a cold Saturday to make the holidays a little brighter for families affected by cancer.
Young helpers make sure all of Santa’s reindeer are properly inflated, as the Lights and Ladders Brigade decorates a home for Christmas.
The holidays after Finley was diagnosed in the fall of 2019 were particularly hectic as she was undergoing chemotherapy and the parents were spending many nights at Lurie’s Children’s Hospital.One day, her husband Dan’s father and brother showed up at their house in the Beverly neighborhood and started putting up their Christmas decorations without being asked.
Lacey and Dan Bracken met when both were working as firefighters for the Frankfort Fire Department. Dan is now a firefighter paramedic for the Flossmoor Fire Department, so the couple has a lot of firefighter friends. The Goins house was first on the schedule Saturday. Bob Goins’ wife, Maryellen. died of breast cancer in February, so this will be his and their three children’s first Christmas without her.
Kurt DeGroot, a member of the Oak Forest Fire Department, said firefighters from 34 different departments in Illinois and Indiana joined the effort. It’s organized chaos when the Lights and Ladders Brigade arrives to decorate the homes of families affected by cancer on the South Side.
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