Comfort Inn DFW Airport North Victims

Guangyu Zhang is organizing this fundraiser.

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Hi everyone, my name is Guangyu Zhang, a postdoctoral trainee who has recently completed my study about heart disease at City of Hope in Los Angeles. I flew from Los Angeles to Dallas on July 18 and planned to take the flight to Shanghai, China on July 21, 2022. On July 19th, 2022, a fire took away all my belongings such as my passport, driver’s license, and bank cards, leaving me with nothing but my phone (Local News Article on Fire https://www.wfaa.com/article/news/local/irving-comfort-inn-destroyed-in-fire-residents-lost-everything/287-1fe7dcbd-49bd-4d20-abd6-799d02317850). I would have landed at Shanghai on July 22 and finally reunited with my wife and parents in China if not for the fire. It remains uncertain how many days I will receive new documents including my passport, which prevents me from taking any flights internationally, working legally to support myself in the US, and even finding a place to sleep at night. To make matters worse, I haven’t received any compensation from the hotel for the loss of my personal belongings. As a trained scholar, my dream is to save people with heart disease whenever I can, which I will never let go. But now I need to survive. I have to find my way through this terrible situation, and every day I am trapped here in the US is financially challenging. I no longer have any income as a foreigner after completion of my training. I also must seek legal defense which implicates additional financial burden. In addition to me, Fanyi Kong, a former student of University of Pittsburg, is currently in the same situation as I. I ask for your contribution to help with the financial challenges that lay ahead of me and Fanyi Kong. EVERY PENNY of your donation will be greatly appreciated and used by us to cope with the terrible situation we are in now. Thank you!

Below is the incident report from Irving Fire Department.