'Rally behind them.' GoFundMe raises money for Fairfield family displaced by fire
Fire officials say they were called to a home on Dogwood Lane Saturday night.
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The community in Fairfield is once again rallying behind a family that lost everything to a devastating housefire.
Fire officials say no one was home when the fire broke out on Dogwood Lane Saturday night, but the home is now uninhabitable.
"Everything that they had inside the house from clothes to computers to anything they had is now a loss," Interim Deputy Chief of the Fairfield Fire Department Patrick Barry says. "They have to start from the beginning."
Derek Massey, a student at Fairfield Warde High School and friend of the family, started a GoFundMe to help.
“I never really thought this would happen to someone I know," Massey says.
As of Monday night, the GoFundMe had raised more than $30,000 in less than 48 hours.
"I set the first goal at $10,000 hoping maybe after a couple days we’d reach it," Massey says. "But then we just kept getting donations back-to-back-to-back coming in super-fast. It just really blew my mind."
Massey says the support from the community has been overwhelming.
“We’re a good community. This is just a great example of how when there’s someone who is really struggling, we step it up and we rally behind them."
While officials investigate how the fire started, Deputy Chief Barry is reminding the public to make sure they have working smoke detectors at home.
“We’ve had two families that have had fires in the past couple weeks that have lost everything," Deputy Chief Barry says. "The town of Fairfield community has been right behind them."
To donate, visit here: https://www.gofundme.com/f/support-the-dodder-familys-recovery
