Adults got to feel like a kid at Christmas on Saturday at a bicycle gifting party for 50 survivors of the Carr Fire.

The Giant Bicycle company, working with Angie James of the Chain Gang Bike Shop, donated the blue cruiser-style bikes to adults affected by the summer blaze.

Mike Stewart, an account executive with Giant, said the bikes retail for about $500. Volunteers assembled them the day before on Friday, complete with bell ringers and cup holders.

"We feel for the community," Stewart said.

The city of Redding had a hand in choosing the recipients and Redding Community Services Director Kim Niemer emceed the event.

One of those recipients was Linda Ross-Fraley whose home on Lake Redding Drive was destroyed in the Carr Fire. She used to ride her old bike on the Sacramento River Trail with her dog, Spike, an American Eskimo-Pomeranian mix, in a front basket.

"I so miss my bicycle," Ross-Fraley said while gripping the handle bars of her new two-wheeler. "It couldn't be a more perfect gift than a bicycle."

"Spike is going to get to ride again," she was happy to say.