Saturday, August 08, 2020

Teenager surprises front-line nurses who lost home, pets in a fire with rent-free apartment



https://news.yahoo.com/teenager-surprises-front-line-nurses-215825026.html

 

 

Caroline Ghisolfi
,Miami Herald•August 7, 2020 

When 16-year-old Steven Ferreiro read about the fire that burned down a Southwest Miami-Dade family’s home, killing their pets and destroying the keepsakes that the couple and two children had collected over five years, he felt called into action.

“I had to do something,” Ferreiro, from Kendall, said. “The Apathys, they’re saving lives in the community, they’re doing so much for us.”

As Ryan and Ayleen Apathy — both COVID-19 front-line nurses at Mercy hospital in Coconut Grove — stayed at a family member’s home and tried to get lives back together, Ferreiro worked with a local real estate company to find them a new place to call home.

On Friday, Ferreiro and South Florida real estate developer AHS Residential surprised the family with a two-bedroom apartment in the 9700 block of Southwest 152nd Street in Coral Reef where the family will be staying free of charge for at least three months.



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