To the Editor:

Thank you, Pickens County Volunteer Firefighters.

On Jan. 2, our home in Rivermont burned. Volunteer firefighters from Pickensville, Carrollton, Aliceville and Gordo came to fight the fire. They were unable to save our home, but they controlled the fire and prevented neighboring homes from burning.

The volunteers that came worked tirelessly and put themselves in harm’s way to try to save our home. We are grateful and very much appreciate knowing that we have neighbors in our country that volunteer to provide this service to our community. We want to publicly thank all of them for their kindness, hard work and sacrifice that they make to serve our communities.

We pray that others will not have to experience first-hand the loss we did to learn of this service. We would like to encourage everyone to be more supportive of your local volunteer fire department by giving of your time to volunteer and/or giving financially to cover the costs of providing this service.

With best regards,

Ed and Amelia Nizynski

Pickensville, AL

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