New Hampshire boy donates $11 from piggy bank to fire department: ‘Thank you for protecting our town’

New Hampshire fifth grader Jackson Gilchrist felt the decision to provide again to his neighborhood by donating his complete piggy financial institution funds to his native hearth division.

Gilchrist rounded up a grand whole of $11 — all the pieces he had — and penned a handwritten be aware to the Salem Hearth Division, thanking the firefighters for his or her service.

Jackson Gilchrist defined that he felt compelled to donate his $11 in piggy financial institution funds to the fireplace division as a result of they “do lots for us.”

“Thanks for safeguarding our city and placing out all the fires and saving our lives,” he wrote.

Gilchrist and his mom, Dayna Gilchrist, joined “Fox & Associates” on Wednesday morning, alongside hearth chief Larry Finest, to replicate on a small gesture that had a really large impression.

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“He did it on his personal,” Dayna Gilchrist mentioned. 

“It was out of his personal little coronary heart … He [kept] saying to me, ‘Mother, I simply needed to put in writing a letter and thank them.’”

Younger Jackson Gilchrist defined that he felt compelled to donate his $11 in piggy financial institution funds to the fireplace division as a result of they “do lots for us.”

“I didn’t assume it might go on dwell TV,” he mentioned. 

Right here, a photograph of the letter that fifth grader Jackson Gilchrist wrote to the Salem Hearth Division in N.H., thanking firefighters for his or her service. 
(Larry Finest)

The Salem Hearth Division may obtain loads of different donations from the neighborhood already — however Finest mentioned that this one was a little bit totally different.

“It was a particular donation,” he mentioned. “Simply to know that it got here from Jackson, who’s a fifth grader — at the present time, that he needed to thank the firefighters for what we do.”

“We’re simply right here doing our jobs and offering service to the neighborhood, and it was particular to us,” Finest added.

The fifth grader famous that he discovered in regards to the risks concerned in firefighting in class and repeated the “cease, drop and roll” security protocol. 

Jackson Gilchrist (heart, in white T-shirt) and household pose with Salem Hearth Division members in Salem, N.H. 
(Larry Finest)

Finest joked that younger Gilchrist is “on their listing” for recruiting when he’s of age to affix the division himself.

The hearth division just lately shared a press launch praising Jackson Gilchrist for exemplifying the division’s mission assertion: “We’re right here to assist.”

“Jackson’s easy gesture is de facto not so easy,” the assertion reads. “It reminds every one among us what it means to be a member of the fireplace service: the smallest gesture can imply the world to a different.”