Community Support Overwhelms Port Jervis Family After House Fire

Community Support Overwhelms Port Jervis Family After House Fire
The Austin family (left to right: Joseph, Chandler, Autumn, Briana, and Weston) and Vivian Van Orden (M) sit on a couch in the living room at Van Orden's house in Port Jervis on Aug. 22, 2022. Cara Ding/The Epoch Times
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Boxes of diapers, school supplies, and toys keep piling up at Briana Austin’s grandmother’s house in Port Jervis. People who know the Austin family and strangers from as far as Monroe stopped by to deliver words of comfort and money.

Austin’s two younger children, 4-year-old Weston and 2-year-old Autumn, are running around the house, toys in their hands and big smiles on their faces, apparently not thinking at all about the house fire they escaped days ago just a few blocks away.

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