{"id":422,"date":"2017-08-03T14:56:12","date_gmt":"2017-08-03T18:56:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.firstchoiceheat.com\/blog\/?p=422"},"modified":"2017-08-03T14:56:12","modified_gmt":"2017-08-03T18:56:12","slug":"disabled-hartland-couple-gets-new-furnace-when-they-call-channel-7-desperate-for-help","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.firstchoiceheat.com\/blog\/uncategorized\/disabled-hartland-couple-gets-new-furnace-when-they-call-channel-7-desperate-for-help\/","title":{"rendered":"Disabled Hartland couple gets new furnace when they call Channel 7 desperate for help"},"content":{"rendered":"
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HARTLAND, Mich. (WXYZ-TV) – A Hartland couple called 7 Action News when they couldn’t get help from anyone else. We answered their call, and got them a brand new furnace.<\/p>\n

Debby and Dan Taylor rely on their wheelchairs to get around. Both are diabetics and have each had a leg amputated. The cold weather has been hard on them, especially Dan, who recently suffered a stroke.<\/p>\n

One week into Dan’s recovery, they found their home particularly cold. Their furnace had stopped working.<\/p>\n

“We called all over,” Debby told Action News. “We called everybody, and nobody would help.”<\/p>\n

The couple used their gas stove and space heaters to heat their home temporarily. A new furnace would’ve cost the family thousands of dollars they didn’t have.<\/p>\n

Debby had her doubts, but she followed her husband’s advice and called 7 Action News. “I’ve seen many a times when the stations help people out,” said Dan. “I thought, ‘Well, why can’t they help us out?”<\/p>\n

We reached out to the Southeast Michigan chapter of the Air Conditioning Contractors of America. Before long, we found the Taylors a furnace.<\/p>\n

First Choice Heating & Cooling, a Fenton-based company, volunteered to install a furnace that was donated by a distributor to the Taylor family.<\/p>\n

“I felt helpless until Channel 7 stepped in and helped us,” Debby said as she watched the new furnace get installed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

HARTLAND, Mich. (WXYZ-TV) – A Hartland couple called 7 Action News when they couldn’t get help from anyone else. We answered their call, and got them a brand new furnace. Debby and Dan Taylor rely on their wheelchairs to get around. Both are diabetics and have each had a leg amputated. The cold weather has […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71,76,78,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community-involvement","category-heating-service","category-home-improvement","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.firstchoiceheat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.firstchoiceheat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.firstchoiceheat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.firstchoiceheat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.firstchoiceheat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=422"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.firstchoiceheat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":423,"href":"https:\/\/www.firstchoiceheat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422\/revisions\/423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.firstchoiceheat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.firstchoiceheat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.firstchoiceheat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}