My Sisters School Caught on FIRE! - Emergency GoFundME Fundraiser!
Channel: Dayna Creates
Date: 2019-11-07

Hello Friends and Family!

My sister Eryn, who is a Middle School Math teacher (spot in Heaven saved for her my friends!), recently had a fire break out at her school, and it destroyed her classroom. It's a total loss, valued at over $500,000 in damage. While Insurance will cover a majority of the supplies that she lost, it won't completely cover all of the actual costs. I am creating this GoFundMe for her as she is not allowed to for herself, per school district policy. Read her story below, and see if there is any way you can help her out. Every $1 will go towards getting her students back in the classroom learning like before.

-- Dayna Brown (the older and wiser twin! :)

https://www.gofundme.com/f/school-fire-fundraiser?utm_source=customer&utm_medium=copy_link&utm_campaign=p_cp+share-sheet

Per Eryn:

Hello all! I just wanted to drop very rare (and long, sorry) post today and update you on what has been happing in my life this past week or so. As some of you know, on Thursday, October 24 at 4 AM, my school, Union Middle School, suffered an electrical fire. The fire occurred in the classroom immediately next to mine. In fact, the wall where it started was the shared wall between our two classrooms.

I was informed this past Wednesday, that upon further inspection of my classroom, it along with three others, has been deemed a “total loss.” This means that everything in it is gone and the room itself will be stripped down to its studs and rebuilt.

As you can imagine, I have been struggling a bit this week, coming to terms with all that has been lost in my classroom. My 10 years at Union have been the best years of my career. I love Union Middle School. I truly love teaching math. There is no place I’d rather be. 

Room 501 has given me a mountain of wonderful memories; memories of past students, class experiences, and memories of all the fun and learning that have occurred there over the years. It’s hard to imagine that the classroom environment that I have worked so hard to create can be destroyed in a matter of minutes.

While I am sad at this loss, I am overwhelmed by the outpouring of love and support that I have received from family, friends, and from the Union Community. Thank you all for your well-wishes, your prayers, and your offers of help. We will rebuild. We will replace the things lost, and as one parent recently reminded me, this too will make “a stepping stone for the future.”

Logistically, school goes on… sort of. The main floor of the school, where the fire occurred, will remain closed most-likely until after Thanksgiving. All classes have been moved to the lower level and we are teaching only the four core classes in two shifts (half the school in the morning, the other half in the afternoon). This makes for a very long, very exhausting day. But the kids make it all worth it with their hard work, smiles, laughter, and their “this is such a great adventure” attitude. As I said, there’s no place I’d rather be.

Thank you all again for your love and support. Keep it coming. The whole Union family will need it. -- Eryn Hatch

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