Credit: Tom Sofield/LevittownNow.com
The local emergency responder community is pulling together to help a long-time Middletown medic who was injured when his family home caught fire over the Thanksgiving weekend.
Since the fire on November 30, Middletown police, the fire marshal’s office, and the Langhorne-Middletown, Parkland, Penndel, and William Penn fire companies have worked on ways to support Hugh Copperman and his family as they deal with the aftermath of the fire and his injuries, which included burns on his body.
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Cooperman is a member of the Penndel-Middletown Emergency Squad, a past chief of the organization, a Neshaminy School District employee, and he dressed up as Santa and rode for years on a fire engine on Christmas Eve.
A Meal Train page has been created to help provide dinners for the family, who is temporarily residing in Bristol Township.
In addition, the nonprofit Middletown Community Foundation is collecting funds to aid the family. Checks can be made out to the Middletown Community Foundation with “Hugh Cooperman Fund” in the memo line and mailed to P.O. Box 1128, Langhorne, 19047. Donations can also be made online, Penndel-Middletown Emergency Squad Chief Andy Foley said.
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A beef and beer event for the Cooperman family is being planned for spring, Foley said.
Fire officials have said Cooperman, his wife, and granddaughter were in their Upland Road home in Middletown’s Levittown section when the blaze started shortly after sunrise. A working fire alarm alerted the family and also contacted emergency services.
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Cooperman ended up suffering serious burns and was treated at the burn unit at Jefferson University Hospital in Philadelphia.
Cooperman’s young granddaughter was taken to the hospital but was not seriously injured in the blaze.
Last week, Cooperman was released for the hospital and appeared at Langhorne Borough’s Dickens Night. That event ended up with $1,000 being collected for the Cooperman family.
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The cause of the fire remained under investigation as of Wednesday, but it appeared accidental and started on the first floor, Fire Marshal Jim McGuire said.
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