'No Words': Family Thanks Ocean City Community After House Fire

OCEAN CITY, NJ — The Bogdan family escaped a house fire earlier this month with their dog. Though none of them were injured, the family lost everything.

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A GoFundMe was quickly established to get the family back on their feet, and it just as quickly exceeded its goal of $10,000. As of Monday morning, it's quintupled it, with more than $50,000 raised.

Megan Bogdan shared a letter with Patch to express her gratitude towards the community.

To our OC Community,

There are no words that will ever be able to convey the immense gratitude Dan and I have for all of your love and support after the fire that destroyed our home. It’s astonishing to me how quickly you all joined together to get us back on our feet.

I will never be able to thank each of you individually, (although you better believe I’m going to try!) but please know that with every call, text, email, clothes/toiletries/toys donations, offer for places to stay and financial help, you have taken away the burden and helped put the pieces back together.

The fire was a tragedy that I wish we never had to go through, but the love and support that we have received since then has been an amazing thing to experience.

A special thank you to the OCFD who worked tirelessly to extinguish the fire and also saved our dog, Max and to Linwood Veterinarian Hospital for taking wonderful care in nursing Max back to health.

With love and unending gratitude,
The Bogdan Family
Dan, Megan, Ava, Jack, Luke and Max