A kind-hearted firefighter has eased the worries of a four-year-old boy by writing a poem about coronavirus.
Little Connar Goldie has been waking up with nightmares and having reactions similar to panic attacks over fears of COVID-19, specifically the threat to those emergency services on the front line.
The schoolboy from Cumbernauld was so panicked that mum Collette decided to contact the local fire brigade for a message of support.
"This whole pandemic is affecting kids, specifically Connar, a lot more than we realise," Collette told The Herald.
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"He's constantly asking about emergency services and how they're doing, and is always in our room after having nightmares.
"I messaged our local fire department to ask them to send a wee message telling Connar that everything is alright, but I didn't expect them to do what they did."
The team wrote and recorded a touching poem for Connar, who wants to be a firefighter when he is older.
In the poem, they invite Connar to come visit the station when the coronavirus lockdown is over and say that they along with the other emergency services are working hard to keep people safe.
"It was absolutely amazing," said Colette. "They really didn't have to do that, but it has helped him so much."
But their generosity did not stop there - they swung by the top of Connar's street for a special message in person.
"They were driving by and put the lights on while Connar was on his dad's shoulders," Collete explained. "They told him again that he was welcome anytime and that everything was okay.
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"It was just phenomenal."
Firefighter Alan Wilkie from Cumbernauld Community Fire Station, who penned and recited the poem, said: “We were delighted to be able to do something for Connar, this is a difficult time for a lot of people and as firefighters we joined to help the communities in many ways, not just through responding to 999 calls.
“Seeing Connar’s reaction was brilliant, we know he had been struggling during this pandemic and worrying about us and other emergency workers - seeing it bring a bit of happiness to him and the positive reaction from the public as a whole is wonderful.
“I had written a few poems before for things within the service, so I took some information about what Connar liked such as dinosaurs and we worked to get the video message out to him.
“We also invited the young man and his family down to the station too for a visit - once we are all safely through this pandemic.”
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