Firefighters Build Cart for Disabled Children
Firefighters from Station 37 in Westwood presented a handmade 10-seat cart shaped like a fire engine to children enrolled in the UCLA Children’s Hospital Intervention Program.
The program helps children from infancy up to age 6 with severe developmental disabilities such as Down’s syndrome, cerebral palsy, spina bifida and mental retardation.
The facility is next to the station and 10 to 20 children stop by twice a week to visit firefighters and play with the station’s Dalmatian, Bruin.
“The school already had two red wagon carts that are 30 years old and falling apart,” said engineer Alex Quintana, a welder and carpenter who designed the cart.
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