BALTIMORE — Blue Pit BBQ on Union Avenue was packed Sunday night as community members raised money for the families devastated by last week’s deadly fire on Keswick Road in Hampden.
Libby Francis and her colleagues with the Hampden Village Merchants Association. along with the Hampden Community Council. jumped into action to help.
“It’s devastating. I can’t even imagine how traumatic it must have been,” said Libby Francis, owner of The Modest Florist and Vice President of the Merchants Association.
Francis said several of her customers were among the victims and they were “shellshocked.”
“Through a series of emails on Tuesday night, we figured out a date and time and how we would go about doing it, and here we are,” Francis said.
There was more than $12,500 worth of goods and services at the silent auction upstairs. All of the money will help those who lost everything when flames ripped through 10 homes.
Blue Pit BBQ also donated its Sunday night proceeds.