The city of Nebraska adorns the home with Christmas lights in memory of our beloved firefighter
The city of Nebraska adorns the home with Christmas lights in memory of our beloved firefighter
The McCook Fire Department met to help the Raleigh Haas family put the Christmas lights on Raleigh.
(McCook Fire Department / Facebook)A Nebraska city is remembering a beloved volunteer firefighter as he continues his long tradition of decorating his home with Christmas lights.
When Raleigh Haas, 62, died of a heart attack in August, most residents of the small town of McCook thought their light show would go down the road. But last weekend, his brothers in the McCook Fire Department, along with the Haas family, decorated the two-story home and six rooms of his former colleague with lights, the Kansas City Star reported.
"Firefighters are a unique profession because we're all family," McCook fire chief Marc Harpham told the newspaper. "When we lose someone it's difficult, but when you lose a member who has been with us for so long and has done a lot for the community, it's really difficult."
"Firefighters are a unique profession because we are all family, when we lose someone it is difficult, but when you lose a member who has been with us so long and has done a lot for the community, it is really difficult."
Each holiday season, the house was outlined with white lights, and dozens of filaments comprising thousands of lights were placed in the trees and shrubs in front. Minda Haas Kuhlmann, Raleigh's daughter, said the exhibition was not made in the form of "Christmas Holidays" by Clark Griswold, in reference to the National Lampoon holiday movie series.
"Without his help, we could have had to spend our first Christmas without him in a dark house," Kuhlmann wrote on Facebook. "I have the feeling that not having them would not have made my family sad, but it would also have been a bit annoying for the people in our church."
Haas started his lighting tradition 30 years ago, when his mother gave him extra boxes of Christmas lights, said Raleigh's wife, Kathy Haas. The screen has grown in size to the point where the house is covered from top to bottom in the Christmas lights.
"So he put the Christmas light around the door and the windows in front, and they were white lights," said Kathy Haas. "And every year it expanded and expanded and expanded."
Finally, a nativity scene was added. The screen became so big, the family left the lights on the highest ceilings of the roof throughout the year and their electric bill increased to double their usual amount.
"Years ago, when my brothers and I were younger, we kept encouraging Dad to add lights to more and more parts of the house," said Ryan Haas.
When Raleigh Haas died, the local McCook Daily Gazette greeted him as the "embodiment of service". Known as a man of the church, he trained innumerable EMTs and paramedics in the area.
"He did his job and kept people safe," fellow firefighter Jay Alberts told the Daily Gazette in August.
During the holiday season, Haas's house was one that McCook residents visited frequently, Harpham said.
He said the department is ready to install lights "year after year" now, as far as he is concerned.
The family lights the lights the day after Thanksgiving, but this year has a deeper meaning.
"The whole idea, the whole subject is waiting for the light of the world," said Kathy Haas.
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