By Lisa Casinger
\n\u00c2\u00a0 When ABC\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s\u00c2\u00a0 Extreme Makeover: Home Edition was looking for vendors to help supply products\u00c2\u00a0 for the Arena family of Somers, N.Y. they called Levels of Discovery.
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\nOwner Jeff Hutsell not only donated product he also flew to New York to help rebuild the family\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s home and put the room together.<\/p>\n
\u00e2\u20ac\u0153The visit I made to upstate New York to help the Arenas family was one of the most unforgettable experiences of\u00c2\u00a0 my life,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Hutsell said. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153We were asked to donate some of our firefighter\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s\u00c2\u00a0 furniture for the two little girls\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 room (who said only boys like fire\u00c2\u00a0 engines!). I said I would be delighted but asked if I could work on the project\u00c2\u00a0 too.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n
Hutsell spent three days and nights working with more than 400 volunteers to remove one home and build, furnish and decorate a new one in 7-8 days.<\/p>\n
\u00e2\u20ac\u0153The entire process is real,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d he\u00c2\u00a0 said. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153They really do all of the work and I was happy to see that Ty and all of\u00c2\u00a0 the other on-air talent pitched in. It was truly a work from the heart for all\u00c2\u00a0 concerned. Nothing will ever compare to the look on the family\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s faces when\u00c2\u00a0 they saw their new home.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n
The Arena family has six daughters\u00c2\u00a0 and lost their only son to an inoperable brain tumor last year shortly after\u00c2\u00a0 his sixth birthday. Parents Jim and Gina had spent what little money they had saved over the years on their son Jimboy\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s treatments and their small, one-bathroom home needed lots of work so Extreme Makeover stepped in.<\/p>\n
Two of the younger daughters wanted\u00c2\u00a0 a firefighter\/Dalmatian bedroom theme, since their dad was a fireman and Levels of Discovery\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s firefighter collection was a perfect choice for the room.<\/p>\n
The Arena family\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s episode aired on ABC in May.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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