“We are very fortunate we live in a community that works together and helps each other out,” Wood County Commissioner Jimmy Colombo said Monday morning, as firefighters continued to battle the blaze at the Peoples Cartage facility.

First responders from agencies across the Mid-Ohio Valley were on scene to support those trying to contain the fire — which, as of this writing, is contained, but will take days to extinguish.

Many questions remain unanswered, but those answers will come in time.

Meanwhile, we know for certain there is support coming from across the valley and across the state.

Donors brought in food and water for the firefighters. The Salvation Army set up its truck to provide water, snacks, lunch, masks and even spiritual support. One company quickly answered the call to provide long-reach excavators to the scene. Community leaders understood the need to provide direction to those all around them asking how they could help, and set up ways to get that help to the perimeter set up around the site of the fire.

State officials from the Department of Environmental Protection to the governor’s office wasted no time doing what they could.

“The community outreach has been phenomenal,” said Del. Scot Heckert, R-Wood. “Everyone is working together.”

Heckert is all too familiar with this scenario, though he stressed this one is very different from the last. And he was absolutely right to ask people to avoid spreading unproven, negative theories and rumors while so many are working so hard to handle the very real crisis at hand.

“We need to worry about the first responders who are there working and the people out there fighting this fire,” he said.

If the rest of us want to focus on something, we can focus on the good. Focus on those who are helping. There are so many.

Though they are exhausted, the fire departments will back up one another and work until the job is done. And we must do all we can to support them, and anyone else who faces challenges because of the fire.

“People brought in food,” Colombo said. “They didn’t have to be asked to do that. They knew what people needed.”

No, no one is asking. But Colombo is right. We know what to do.