George Solis is a national correspondent with NBC News.
A 91-year-old’s $500,000 donation has saved a tiny Missouri volunteer fire company from certain doom. In April, Sam Sloan decided to make good on a promise he made to himself decades ago when he got out of the cattle and seed processing business: Donate to the Calhoun fire department. “They need the money, once I had the money; I’d been saving money for a long time,” Sloan said Thursday.
In April, Hardin says he received phone call out of the blue from Sloan, a man he’d never met or spoken to in his life. Sloan had a simple request of being treated to breakfast. “He had a lot of questions about the fire department,” Hardin said. But that was it. Then a week later, another call and another ask for breakfast. Week three came around, and the phone call came, but this time, Sloan invited Hardin to his home.
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