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Kindness of strangers leads to medical help amid Hall power outages

Generator keeps child's feeding device working

Kate Lovell's foster child, nicknamed Piglet to protect his identity in the state's foster program, looks at the gas generator being set up by Ciji Tlapa. Piglet was born premature and needs a battery-powered feeding tube. - photo by Nick Bowman

09132017IRMApower 2.jpg — Kate Lovell's foster child, nicknamed Piglet to protect his identity in the state's foster program, looks at the gas generator being set up by Ciji Tlapa. Piglet was born premature and needs a battery-powered feeding tube. - photo by Nick Bowman

Outside of the occasional taste of bacon, 1-year-old Piglet’s diet is a continuous feed from a machine fitting inside a backpack. His foster mom, Kate Lovell, put out a call on social media for a generator to charge the machine after the power went out Monday afternoon.