Neighbors started a fundraiser to help him rebuild after the loss of his historic home.
Firefighters at the scene of 94-year-old Paul Roberts' home, shortly after putting out the flames. Roberts lost everything in the blaze and neighbors are currently raising funds to help him rebuild.It’s easy to grow weary and lose some faith in the world but in the midst of chaos, there’s a story out of a small Jersey Shore town that offers a glimmer of hope.
Todd MacLennan, chief of the Ship Bottom Volunteer Fire Co., arrived on scene just minutes after receiving a call about the blaze. “The guy’s 94-years-old and he pretty much lost everything. Even if you were 25 and you lost everything, that’s a huge loss. You don’t have a single thing, you know, except the clothes on your back. And that’s where he’s at,” MacLennan said.of his life, written by neighbor Erin Obermayer, states Roberts enlisted in the Marine Corps at age 17 and was stationed in Nagasaki, Japan, in the aftermath of the atomic bomb that destroyed the city in 1945.
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