RICHMOND, Va. — A Hanover County man has donated furniture and household items to a newlywed couple who lost everything in a devastating fire that swept through Richmond’s Shockoe Bottom this week.
Kimberly and Clarissa Silcox narrowly escaped the fire that destroyed three restaurants and three apartment units, including their new home.
“My mom passed away in March of this year and my sister and I are the executors of this house,” Lyle Collins of Beaverdam said. “We were trying to sell the furniture. We weren’t having a lot of luck with that… but then when I saw Channel 6 reporting on the fire downtown in Shockoe Bottom, it just hit me and I said, ‘They lost everything and this would be a great start for them’.”…