MORGANTOWN, W.Va. – The Morgantown Fire Department hoisted a ladder extracurricular of WVU Medicine Children’s Hospital astatine 2 p.m. connected Dec. 16, with a peculiar quality from Santa Claus.
Santa Claus was raised connected a ladder to the windows of children staying astatine the hospital. He was waving and spreading his Christmas cheer for the children who are spending their vacation play a small otherwise this year. After Santa was done waving connected the ladder, helium brought acquisition bags to beryllium passed retired to the children, which contained immoderate amusive items for them to bask portion they enactment successful the hospital.
While Santa visits children’s hospitals each astir the state each year, this is the archetypal twelvemonth that WVU Medicine Children’s Hospital has been up and running.
Santa’s reindeer were resting, truthful the Morgantown Fire Department helped him alert successful the entity connected Friday. Executive manager of the children’s hospital, Marisa Sayre, mentioned to a 12 News newsman that they would similar to marque this lawsuit an yearly happening for the children of the hospital.
Lieutenant Douglas Sharpe of the Morgantown Fire Department explained wherefore they decided to assistance Santa sojourn the children’s hospital. He said, “to effort to interruption up the monotony of having to beryllium distant from location successful unfavorable circumstances implicit the vacation season. I’ve been a firefighter for 27 years. I became a firefighter to service the community, this is conscionable different mode we tin service the community.”
WVU Medicine Children’s Hospital has been doing Christmas themed activities each December agelong for the children who volition beryllium staying implicit the holidays. Sayre said that they volition proceed to bash much activities and clasp peculiar events for the sick children for the remainder of December. While determination are besides children who person to beryllium isolated owed to their illness, nurses and doctors are making definite that these circumstantial kids inactive get to enactment successful the amusive activities.
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