By FireRescue1 Staff
SNOHOMISH COUNTY, Wash. — Firefighters bought a new stroller for a mom after the stroller carrying her baby was destroyed when a car hit them both.
KING5 reported that Johanna Castillo was walking with her 5-week-old son, Cruz, on a sidewalk when a car pulling out of its driveway hit them.
Firefighters said Castillo suffered a few bumps and bruises, but baby Cruz was unharmed. The stroller, however, was destroyed.
“The stroller actually did not come off the front of the bumper. We had to break it to pull it off there,” Silver Firs firefighter David Sherman said. “Once I saw that and I knew the bars are bent and the wheels are done then I started to feel badly.”
Sherman, Captain Dan Olson and firefighter-paramedic Jeanette Anderson decided to help the mother of six by ordering her the same stroller they had to break in the incident.
“We wanted to finish it,” Sherman said. “If we leave and we know there’s a problem and we just simply drive off and say it’s not our problem, I don’t know that that’s the best customer care and that’s really what we are here for.”
The stroller was purchased through the Good Neighbor Program, which allows first responders to help those they find in need during a call through donations from staff.
“It always feels good. That’s why we’re in this job to help people on their worst day, but this is kind of the little extra we get to do above that, so it’s pretty neat,” Anderson said.
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