At her daughter's soccer tournament on a September Saturday, Bridget Kent was talking with a friend when the topic turned to the high price of heating oil. In the past five years, the cost to fill the tank at Kent's Westford home has gone from $500 to $1,200. She reserves oil to heat her hot water and relies on a woodstove to heat her 900-square-foot home. Kent, a 43-year-old single mom, keeps her thermostat at 58 degrees. She typically burns six cords of wood each winter but last year could afford only four. Coincidentally, after the tournament ended, a soccer coach happened to mention that she was heading off to volunteer at Wood4Good. That's how Kent learned about the Jericho nonprofit that gives away firewood. "You should apply," Kent's friend told her. The next morning, Kent filled out Wood4Good's one-page online application, clicked "submit" and thought, Yeah, right. That evening, her phone rang. She didn't recognize the number, so she didn't answer. Then she got a text: "Hi, Bridget, it's Dave with Wood4Good here at your home to deliver your wood." "I went outside, and I looked, and I just started crying," Kent said. Wood4Good volunteer David Lawson was there with a white truck carrying more than a cord of firewood. Jericho resident Eric Axelrod started Wood4Good with his two sons in late 2019 — he had extra firewood in his backyard and decided to give it away. It's now a nonprofit, with a woodlot on donated land in Jericho and distribution sites in St. Albans, Middlesex and Jeffersonville. Supported by monetary donations and an army of boots-on-the-ground volunteers, Wood4Good has helped as many as 150 families a winter. "We could be statewide easily," Axelrod said, though that would require raising money to hire an executive director. Axelrod works full time at a recruiting firm he founded called Pinnacle Search Professionals. He was experiencing his own hard times when he started the wood bank. "I was recently divorced," he said. Cutting and splitting firewood became his hobby. "It requires your full concentration to do the work, so you can't be in your own head." His backyard became "a sea of firewood," so he offered to give it away on Front Porch Forum. His sons, Devin, then 13, and Logan, 10, helped deliver. One recipient offered them the downed trees in her yard, which were already dry and ready…