Redding Youth Donates Teddy Bears to BFD to Help Reassure Sick Children
#Bridgeport, CT – Dec. 24, 2013 – Ten-year-old Vladimir Romano has a simple explanation for why he sells lemonade and buys teddy bears to give to fire departments for children. “I don’t want people to be more scared than I was,” he said in a visit to Bridgeport Fire Headquarters this morning. Vladimir was 3-years-old when he spiked a 105 degree temperature and was taken to the hospital by ambulance. He was scared. He remembers a firefighter putting a stuffed bear on his chest and it made him feel better. A couple years later, he opened his first lemonade stand and his mother, Merian Schwindeman, asked what he wanted to do with the money. “He said, ‘I’m going to give it…
