By FireRescue1 Staff
LAKEWOOD, Colo. — A group of firefighters helped a boy retrieve a balloon he sent up to heaven for his mom.
ABC News reported that 7-year-old Evan Harvat’s mom, Kellie, died February 2014. Evan and his father have since been writing notes to her and sending them via balloon.
This Mother’s Day, Evan’s note got tangled in a tree. His father wrote to West Metro Fire Rescue, asking them to save the balloon.
“We reached back out to [him] and said, ‘Absolutely, we’ll come and help you,’” Chief Steve Aseltine said. “We sent a tower ladder apparatus, which has four personnel. An opportunity to take their bad situation and make it better, we would jump on it. The firefighters, they were ecstatic to go and help.”
The firefighters surprised Evan after school.
“The firefighters went out of their way to make him feel very special,” Evan’s father said. “They let him in the truck and hung out with him afterward and that was great. They protect the community and go out of their way to help out, even when it’s not a big thing so we’re just deeply appreciative.”
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