Chris Florea, Jim Burge, and Jennifer Ameerally were all at the Deerfield Beach, Fla., firehouse the day in 2003 when newborn Gloria Hope’s birthmother entered and handed her baby off to Burge saying, “Please take care of my baby.”
News stories about A Safe Haven for Newborns featuring Gloria Hope and other safely surrendered infants as well as fire station training manuals covering safe haven surrender would continue to cross the fire rescue professionals’ path, reminding them of Father’s Day, 2003; the day Gloria Hope was brought to the fire station.
The fire rescue team received her at two days old as her birth mother safely surrendered her and they would wait 21 years to see how life was going for the young woman.
All three were present on October 19, 2024, to reunite with “Baby Hope” and meet her family at the annual gala for A Safe Haven for Newborns.
The Deerfield Beach Firefighters (which later merged into Broward Sherriff’s Office, BSO Fire Rescue), had called her “Baby Hope” because she was brought to the station on Father’s Day, according to a report from the local CBS affiliate. The firefighter team said whoever gets to adopt this child would be filled with hope, so, they were blessed to learn that her adopted parents named her Gloria Hope. […]
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