RICHMOND — Officer Seara Burton’s fiancé and family are by her side as she is in hospice care in Richmond, Indiana.
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The entire Richmond community is also supporting Officer Burton from encouragement on social media to all the flowers and candles placed outside her cruiser.
They are also rallying behind her and Richmond Police.
News Center 7′s Brandon Lewis visited a candle business just outside Richmond on Sunday that is doing what it can to help.
Justin Burkhardt, the CEO of Warm Glow Candle Company, says he expects high demand for special Officer Burton candles to continue as the community comes together to back the Richmond Police Department.
“We knew that we needed to do something,” he told Lewis. “We wanted to do something. After several prototypes, this is what we came up with.”
“We feel like it captures the heroic thin blue line of Seara and all the men and women that wear the uniform.”
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Since Friday, Warm Glow Candle Company has been selling custom candles in honor of Officer Burton and the labels on the candles have a picture of Burton and her K-9 along with her badge number.
All the proceeds raised from these candles will go to the Richmond Police Department’s K-9 Unit.
“The demand for it has exceeded any expectation that we had when we went into this,” said Jackie Carberry, owner of Warm Glow Candle Company.
So much so, Lewis says Warm Glow has not been able to count just yet how many it’s sold.
It’s been focused on just getting them off production line.
“Some of them are still warm,” Carberry said. “I mean we’ve bagged them and we brought them out here them out that quickly.”
Warm Glow’s Management says the candles are flying off the shelves and have even shipped out of state.
“It shows the love and respect that we have for the heroes that put themselves on the lines to keep us safe everyday and I am not surprised,” Carberry told Lewis.
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Not only at the overwhelming response to the candles but to also see people come together.
“We all know somebody that knows Seara and she’s touched a lot of the lives so it’s the least we can do,” said Burkhardt.
Lewis says the store’s owner and CEO don’t know how long they plan to sell the candles but when they give the check to the Richmond Police Department, they play to do so in Officer Seara Burton’s name.