Fire Mental Health Resources and Medical Expenses
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Hello friends,
I am beside myself to report the most painful series of trauma and loss I’ve ever witnessed, and humbly ask for your help. The amount of suffering, grief, anxiety, depression and PTSD this family has endured is enormous. All the money from this fundraiser will be allocated to necessary grief and trauma counseling, on-going therapy and related medical expenses.
On January 16th, Holly and Tess Fisher held a Celebration of Life for their sweet son/brother, Jack Fisher, who was suddenly and tragically killed one month earlier. Jack was 22 years-old, at the prime of his young life, soon to graduate college cum laude, and starting a recording company. He spent his last day doing one of his favorite things, snowboarding at Big Bear, and was coming home to spend Christmas with his mom and sister.
The Celebration of Life for Jack was deeply emotional and filled with love. Overwhelmed and exhausted, people went to bed early, in a rental house offered on-line. At 3:30 am the house caught on fire. There were no smoke detector alarms, and the one fire extinguisher didn’t work. Everyone literally ran for their lives leaving everything behind, including Jack’s ashes, which were going to be released to the ocean the next morning.
Waking up to screams of “fire”, Holly and Tess stayed in the burning house to save Tess’s best friend, Grant. Trying frantically to get Grant out, Holly finally had to pull her daughter out because the flames were filling the room. Outside, when Tess turned around to find her mom nowhere in sight, she literally compelled someone to go in and get her. Holly was unconscious and unresponsive in the foyer of the burning house. Dragged out the front door, turning ash grey, Tess screamed for an ambulance and screamed for firefighters to go in and get Grant. They refused. Holly spent 3 days in the hospital intubated in the ICU Burn Unit. Worst of all, Grant, 22 years-old, died that night in the fire. Four of the people who escaped the fire were locked in a room at the fire station for 6 hours until they were released the next morning.
The next week another young friend died by an accident in a hospital. The following week another young friend died at the hands of a drunk driver. In between all of this, a man randomly punched his fist through Tess’s bedroom window one night and threatened to kill her. When she heard the news of Jack’s death, Holly fell down seven stairs and broke her shoulder, elbow, wrist and hand.
Not only are the people who survived the fire suffering terribly, but the ripple of despair also reaches out to the families and friends of each one of them. So many have been affected by this great series of tragedy and loss. The ones left behind are stuck suffering, searching for meaning, trying to find help, and when found, trying to figure out how to afford it.
There’s a long, long road back for all these people to feel safe again, but all these lives will never be the same again. If you are able, please donate so they can get the help they so desperately need. I was one of the people in the fire, and I am a close friend of the lovely Fisher family.
Anything you can donate will be so greatly appreciated. Thank you!
I am beside myself to report the most painful series of trauma and loss I’ve ever witnessed, and humbly ask for your help. The amount of suffering, grief, anxiety, depression and PTSD this family has endured is enormous. All the money from this fundraiser will be allocated to necessary grief and trauma counseling, on-going therapy and related medical expenses.
On January 16th, Holly and Tess Fisher held a Celebration of Life for their sweet son/brother, Jack Fisher, who was suddenly and tragically killed one month earlier. Jack was 22 years-old, at the prime of his young life, soon to graduate college cum laude, and starting a recording company. He spent his last day doing one of his favorite things, snowboarding at Big Bear, and was coming home to spend Christmas with his mom and sister.
The Celebration of Life for Jack was deeply emotional and filled with love. Overwhelmed and exhausted, people went to bed early, in a rental house offered on-line. At 3:30 am the house caught on fire. There were no smoke detector alarms, and the one fire extinguisher didn’t work. Everyone literally ran for their lives leaving everything behind, including Jack’s ashes, which were going to be released to the ocean the next morning.
Waking up to screams of “fire”, Holly and Tess stayed in the burning house to save Tess’s best friend, Grant. Trying frantically to get Grant out, Holly finally had to pull her daughter out because the flames were filling the room. Outside, when Tess turned around to find her mom nowhere in sight, she literally compelled someone to go in and get her. Holly was unconscious and unresponsive in the foyer of the burning house. Dragged out the front door, turning ash grey, Tess screamed for an ambulance and screamed for firefighters to go in and get Grant. They refused. Holly spent 3 days in the hospital intubated in the ICU Burn Unit. Worst of all, Grant, 22 years-old, died that night in the fire. Four of the people who escaped the fire were locked in a room at the fire station for 6 hours until they were released the next morning.
The next week another young friend died by an accident in a hospital. The following week another young friend died at the hands of a drunk driver. In between all of this, a man randomly punched his fist through Tess’s bedroom window one night and threatened to kill her. When she heard the news of Jack’s death, Holly fell down seven stairs and broke her shoulder, elbow, wrist and hand.
Not only are the people who survived the fire suffering terribly, but the ripple of despair also reaches out to the families and friends of each one of them. So many have been affected by this great series of tragedy and loss. The ones left behind are stuck suffering, searching for meaning, trying to find help, and when found, trying to figure out how to afford it.
There’s a long, long road back for all these people to feel safe again, but all these lives will never be the same again. If you are able, please donate so they can get the help they so desperately need. I was one of the people in the fire, and I am a close friend of the lovely Fisher family.
Anything you can donate will be so greatly appreciated. Thank you!
Organizer and beneficiary
Cali Hoy
Organizer
Los Angeles, CA
Holly Seeler
Beneficiary