Victims of a home fire themselves, a Salem Lakes family wants to make sure others have what they would need when they need it the most.
Care bags for people who are displaced following a house fire were recently distributed to western Kenosha County fire departments by the Wagner Family Fire Fund, a new non-profit started by the family who lost their home to a fire in April 2020.
“Although we all had places to stay, we didn’t have any essentials like shoes, coats, toothbrushes, combs, etc.,” said Amy Wagner, whose family escaped the electrical fire that destroyed their home. “There is nothing more humbling than to have everything you need one moment and have it gone the next.”
The mission of the Wagner Family Fire Fund is “to offer relief the day of the disaster, assistance throughout the rebuilding process and support to families in western Kenosha County as they work to recover the loss of their home to a fire.”