Tell City business fundraising for family displaced by fire

TELL CITY, Ind. (WEHT) – Days after a fire displaced a Tell City family from their home, a nearby business owner is stepping in to help one of his own. The home on Park Avenue was destroyed by an early morning fire on October 2nd, leaving a family of 10 without a place to stay.

A block away from the home is Tell City Tobacco and Vape. Co-owner Adam Albarmaki says one of the residents was none other than one of his own employees. He tells us the home was occupied by that employee and his wife, along with their eight children. After hearing from the family after the fire and seeing the affect on the children, Albarmaki decided to start a GoFundMe page with a goal to raise enough money to help the family start over.

“If we can do $15,000 they can buy clothes for the kids, furniture, you know, food on the table,” says Albarmaki. “As a community, we have to stand together for one another because today was nate, tomorrow could be anybody. And if we don’t stand for one another, we’re not good neighbors and we’re not good community.”

Albarmaki says he encourages the community to contribute whatever they can, great or small. That fundraising page can be found by clicking here .

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