When A Massive Fire Hit, This Teacher Reached Out To Comfort Her Kids (by Richard Hunt) - a podcast by K-LOVE News

She smiles and calls what happened the morning after the disastrous fire: “Salon Gano.”

Teacher Michelle Gano welcomed her classroom of third graders with a very special Monday morning of fun and encouragement. That’s because many of the children were still stunned and sleep-deprived from what had just happened overnight. A raging inferno struck Bound Brook, New Jersey, in January.“I didn’t see it, but I can only imagine the site that these kids saw… right out their windows!” Michelle knows it was a “terrifying image.” After learning the full extent of the fire situation, Michelle says “all I wanted to do was be with my kids in my classroom and just know that everyone was safe.”

As she considered what to do as a teacher, she realized “academics were out the window” that day, so she gathered supplies in case any of her students needed to get cleaned-up, wash their hair, or brush their teeth. That was what became known as “Salon Gano” – complete with a shampoo station, a hair-drying station, and then some “fancy hairdos.” The result? “It really was a special way of being together and taking care of really their physical needs, but also their emotional needs, they were so shaken by the night before.”

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