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The community is stepping up to help a struggling West Babylon family who were displaced from their home when an alleged drunk driver slammed in their house two days before Thanksgiving.
Donations totaling just under $7,000 have poured into a fundraising campaign for Michael and Anna Ragno and their three young boys. The family is expected to be out of their home for 10 months, due to massive smoke, chemical and water damage that destroyed most of their belongings.
Police said that on Nov. 26 just before 9:30 p.m., 64-year-old Thomas Keane backed his GMC Yukon SUV out of his driveway on Justice Street into a parked car, and then into his neighbor’s house. Keane was charged with driving while intoxicated.
The Ragnos’ car was totaled, said Michael Ragno’s sister Nina, who established a GoFundMe page for her brother’s family. No one inside the home was injured.
“My brother, sister-in-law, and their 3 boys’ lives were flipped upside down,” Nina Ragno wrote on the GoFundMe page, which has received 68 donations since it was created on Sunday. “We feel so blessed that everyone is safe and no one is hurt. Please help my family to get back on their feet.
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