Steve and Courtney Wilbert work with a donated wheelchair ramp they received to replace one that was stolen Sunday from outside their Standard Avenue home. After residents learned of the theft, they started calling with offers to help. By Wednesday. Courtney had two new ramps.

The generosity of the community has replaced a wheelchair ramp that was stolen from outside a woman's home over the weekend.

Courtney Wilbert, 32, of Standard Avenue used the 8-foot aluminum ramp to get in and out of her car. While she and her husband, Steve, were working at their home on Sunday, the ramp was taken.

After residents learned about the theft, Wilbert said people started calling with offers of help. By Wednesday, Wilbert had two new ramps and was mobile again.

"I don't have enough words to say thank you," she said.

Wilbert, who suffers from multiple sclerosis, immediately ordered a new ramp after the theft and accepted offers from friends to take her to and from the doctor's office while waiting for it to arrive.

Then, attorneys from Schenck & Long offered her the money to pay for the ramp. That ramp arrived Wednesday.

At the same time, Blackburn's, a medical supply company, sent her a second new ramp. It was delivered to her home Wednesday.

"I now have all the ramps I need," she said.

But that wasn't the end of it. A Butler Township woman called Wilbert and offered her a ramp she no longer needed.

"We were kind of down in the dumps Sunday when it was taken," Wilbert said. "But, everyone has rallied around us."

City police said they believe the thief may have tried to sell the ramp as scrap metal. Nothing was new in the investigation, police said Wednesday.

Wilbert said she and her husband will be careful to never again leave the ramp unattended in their yard.

"It will either stay in the van or the house," she said.