Community comes to aid of family that helped Metrolink crash workers
October 24, 2008 by Webmaster · Comments Off
[reprinted from http://www.dailynews.com]
It’s a tragedy when any family loses its home to fire, but what happened to the Salay family during the Sesnon blaze last week just makes you shake your head and wonder about fairness in life.
The night of the Sept. 12 Metrolink crash, the Salays, like a lot of families, were home watching the tragic scene unfold on TV.
But Les and his wife, Melissa – both deeply involved with their kids in Cub Scouts and Boy Scouts – decided to do more than just watch. They put on their uniforms from Boy Scout Troop 921 in Northridge and spent more than 12 hours at the scene, handing out food and water to firefighters and police officers, then went to Chatsworth High School to help comfort anxious relatives of crash victims gathered at the evacuation center.
A month later, their house on Clymer Street in Northridge – almost seven miles from the Sesnon Fire – burned. It was the only house on the street to catch fire.
