VIDEOS: Captain Lawrence Van Hoof with the Hauser Volunteer Fire Department is asking the community to avoid any fake GoFundMe accounts set up by potential scammers following the destruction of the Hauser fire station by a fire on Tuesday. “We have not established a GoFundMe account. We never will establish a GoFundMe account,” Capt. Van Hoof says.
While there is no GoFundMe, there is still a way to donate if you’d like to help. A fundraiser has been started at the Columbia Bank branch, formerly known as Umpqua Bank. The fire department says donations can be made payable to “Hauser RFPD Fire Recovery Fund.” He says though it hasn’t been easy, the department is still running and responded to a call on the dunes the night after the station burned down.
“We staffed it, we ran it. Kind of a tough one because it’s like, what are we going to do? But we did have enough equipment here that our personal stuff and from another department โ Charleston – helped us out with a rig, so we did run a full staff to the sand dunes. That was an important thing and made us feel good that we’re still operational.”
