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POLICE SUPPORT Vestavia Police Foundation Helps Officer’s Family After House Fire
By Ally Morrison
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n the late hours of Sunday, Jan. 23, a Vestavia Hills Police officer David Johnson and his family lost their home to a devastating house fire. Since hearing about the fire, Vestavia Hills Police Foundation President Tom Hale has been one phone call away, eager
to support the officer and his family by providing donations and immediate necessities for the family to begin the lengthy process of re-establishing their lives. Hale said he got a call the next morning from a Vestavia Hills Police lieutenant Joel Gaston notifying him about the fire in the home of the officer, who had been with the police department for about 20 years.
“His home had apparently burned to the ground and allegedly was started by a creosote fire in the chimney when neither he nor his wife were home. Together they have two children. Everything in the home was just gone.” Fortunately, no one was injured. Hale said that when the call came ask-
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