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Restaurants, volunteers and GoFundMe raise tens of thousands for fire relief
Summary
Village officials thanked local restaurants and volunteers for providing thousands of hot meals on the fire lines and noted a GoFundMe that raised about $43,000 in days to support relief work.
The village credited an outpouring of community help during the fire: volunteer restaurateurs coordinated hot meals for crews, local volunteers worked long shifts supporting logistics, and two residents launched a rapid crowdfunding effort.
"They were putting out somewhere close to 2,500 meals a day or more for 10, 12, 13 days," the mayor said, praising restaurant owners and other volunteers who set aside differences to run field kitchens. The mayor also named Erin Brennan and Colleen Dwyer for setting up a GoFundMe; "in 3 days, 4 days... it was like $43,000," he said.
Officials thanked local groups and mutual-aid crews for immediate volunteer support and said donations and donated equipment (including UTVs and a golf-cart donation) were critical to getting food and supplies to crews on the lines. The board said it will publicly acknowledge volunteers and donors at a future meeting when it compiles a full list of contributors.
