DENVER — Staff at a Denver school are coming together to help a cafeteria employee after her home caught fire twice in one week.
Rose Gianni, who was impacted, said both of the fires were electrical in nature and took place within two days of each other at her mobile home located north of Denver.
Gianni said the first fire broke out Tuesday while she was at work at Denver Green School (DGS). She said it destroyed a wall. The second fire broke out on Thursday while she was at her damaged home.
“This is where I live, I’m in shock,” Gianni said. “It’s just so hard, but I’m just hanging in there.”
Gianni lives at the home with her two cats, who thankfully were not injured.
When staff at DGS found out what had happened, they immediately stepped in to help.
Denver7 spoke with Jessica Krichbaum, one of the school principals, and Aleaha Harkins, a music teacher at the school.
“I came directly to her kitchen the very next morning, not expecting to see her there — and there she was sitting, crying at school, and I said, ‘How can you be here with a giant travesty at your house?’ And she said, ‘Well, these kids need me. I need to make food and feed these children,'” said Harkins. “I think that’s why it really inspired me to do something for her because even experiencing something like a loss in her home, she was willing to put that aside and show up for our kids.”