After a quick response to some volunteer fire departments of the Dallas District Community at a fire at the BTWI Internet Service, the family -owned business is now calling for donations to receive the same departments that helped them. On Saturday, February 15, after 10am, a fire broke out at the BTWI headquarters in Rural Dallas. No one was injured, but a spill that kept inventory and the office was destroyed. “It was a great feeling to see the store in which you worked for two years burnt,” said Jared Durry, BTWI sales manager. Dory says he and others worked quickly that Saturday morning. “There was smoke rolling on the top of store doors,” Dury said. “We all just got into action. We moved the vans and closed the propane reservoir. By the time we had done it, here were firefighters.” The headquarters is in the rural perry. Volunteer Fire Department, Bagley Volunteer Department, Department of Volunteer Fire of Jamaica and Yale Volunteer Department all went out to ten from twenty miles away. “They’re all volunteers, so come out in their time – when they get on Saturday to help – it’s just amazing,” said Nathan Leerhoff, the owner of BTWI. “They were here in 20 minutes, and it’s a 15-minute car. They were here really quickly. It was really impressive to hear that.” Leerhoff was far away on a mission trip when the fire broke out into the shed. “They were entering the burnt building, drawing things up and trying to help us save as much as we could,” Leerhoff said. BTWI serves about 1,600 clients in Dallas district communities. Since the fire nearly two weeks ago, people have offered to help the family owned by the family, which is something that Leerhoff appreciates. However, he feels that any help should go to help voluntary fire departments get new equipment or whatever they may need. That is why the company launched a gofundme to support local volunteer fire departments that responded. “We are waiting for insurance and such things and trying to do things again, but we want to help those who helped us,” Leerhoff said. “As I said, they are all voluntary fire departments. They don’t have a big budget. They have a lot of equipment they use. We have wanted to go back and try and help them get new equipment or whatever they need.” Grason Hill is the Head of the Perry Volunteer Fire Department. He remembers the one -digit temperature and the winds of Perry, Bagley, Jamaica and Yale Firefighters worked for more than six hours. “We are just very grateful. They are an excellent group, boys and gals coming from those communities to help us that day,” Hill said. About 30 volunteer firefighters from the four communities responded that day, spending more than six hours there, especially after the fire began again. “We knew that there was the possibility of reconstruction because of all the foil that falls above everything,” Hill said. “Really really, really hard to remove things. So we knew it was an opportunity. It was extremely cold that day and the wind was caught as the day continued, but went through it.” Since the fire, Hill and other departments have spoken to the Leerhoff family. No matter how grateful the Leerhoff family is for them, firefighters feel the same for the family and communities that are now gathering to assist their departments. “I was completely shocked. We have never had anyone really doing it for us before. This simply shows that the community loves perry, Jamaica, Yale and Bagley. So we survive,” Hill said. “You are here to help the community and that is what we like to do.” According to the Gofundme site, the family learned that the departments need new radio, socks for trucks, boots and their masks. This and other equipment is what the hope is for the money to go straight. »Sign up on KCCI’s YouTube Page» Download FREE KCCI app to receive updates in Go: Apple | Google Play
After a quick response to some volunteer fire departments of the Dallas District Community at a fire at the BTWI Internet Service, the family -owned business is now calling for donations to receive the same departments that helped them.
On Saturday, February 15, after 10am, a fire broke out at the BTWI headquarters in Rural Dallas. No one was injured, but a spill that kept inventory and the office was destroyed.
“It was a great feeling to see the store in which you worked for two years burnt,” said Jared Durry, BTWI sales manager.
Dory says he and others worked quickly that Saturday morning.
“There was smoke rolling on the top of store doors,” Dury said. “We all just got into action. We moved the vans and closed the propane reservoir. By the time we had done it, here were firefighters.”
The headquarters is in the rural perry. Volunteer Fire Department, Bagley Volunteer Department, Department of Volunteer Fire of Jamaica and Yale Volunteer Department all went out to ten from twenty miles away.
“They’re all volunteers, so come out in their time – when they get on Saturday to help – it’s just amazing,” said Nathan Leerhoff, the owner of BTWI. “They were here in 20 minutes, and it’s a 15-minute car. They were here really quickly. It was really impressive to hear that.”
Leerhoff was far away on a mission trip when the fire broke out into the shed.
“They were entering the burnt building, drawing things up and trying to help us save as much as we could,” Leerhoff said.
BTWI serves about 1,600 clients in Dallas district communities.
Since the fire nearly two weeks ago, people have offered to help the family owned by the family, which is something that Leerhoff appreciates.
However, he feels that any help should go to help voluntary fire departments get new equipment or whatever they may need. That is why the company launched a gofundme to support local volunteer fire departments that responded.
“We are waiting for insurance and such things and trying to do things again, but we want to help those who helped us,” Leerhoff said. “As I said, they are all voluntary fire departments. They don’t have a big budget. They have a lot of equipment they use. We have wanted to go back and try and help them get new equipment or whatever they need.”
Grason Hill is the Head of the Perry Volunteer Fire Department. He remembers the one -digit temperature and the winds of Perry, Bagley, Jamaica and Yale Firefighters worked for more than six hours.
“We are just very grateful. They are an excellent, brilliant group of boys and gals coming from those communities to help us that day,” Hill said.
About 30 volunteer firefighters from the four communities responded that day, spending more than six hours there, especially after the fire began again.
“We knew that there was the possibility of reconstruction because of all the foil that falls above everything,” Hill said. “Really really, really hard to remove things. So we knew it was an opportunity. It was extremely cold that day and the wind was caught as the day continued, but went through it.”
Since the fire, Hill and other departments have spoken to the Leerhoff family. No matter how grateful the Leerhoff family is for them, firefighters feel the same for the family and communities that are now gathering to assist their departments.
“I was completely shocked. We have never had anyone really doing it for us before. This simply shows that the community loves perry, Jamaica, Yale and Bagley. So we survive,” Hill said. “You are here to help the community and that is what we like to do.”
According to the Gofundme site, the family learned that the departments need new radio, socks for trucks, boots and their masks. This and other equipment is what the hope is for the money to go straight.
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