Fresno business owner says no fire is stopping him succeed: 'Blessed to be here'

FRESNO, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - Bobby Griffin is simply a struggling concern proprietor successful Fresno, whose latest conflict is simply a occurrence that near his concern and 2 neighboring businesses without electricity.

Jazzy's Jean N Things and Herbal Products has been a portion of Van Ness Village adjacent Fresnos' Tower District since 2021 - but he's been a tiny concern proprietor since 1984.

"[When] I started my concern it was called Jazzy's Beauty Salon," said proprietor Bobby Griffin. "It was named aft my daughter."

Griffin says erstwhile his girl decided to commencement selling jeans astatine the salon, the sanction Jazzy's Jeans N Things stuck - and that sanction followed the concern crossed aggregate locations successful Fresno.

Griffin has remained persistent and ever enactment his champion ft guardant astatine work, adjacent aft helium was diagnosed with signifier 4 prostate crab successful 2016. Since dealing with the cancer, reopening Jazzy's, and "starting from scratch," he's had occupation getting radical into his store.

On Sept. 16, his concern was one of 3 impacted by a fire. Griffin says the occurrence that chopped Jazzy's energy is hardly an obstacle erstwhile compared to everything other - helium says the occurrence has really helped immoderate radical find his store.

One lawsuit who walked into the store during YourCentralValley.com's interrogation with Griffin said helium had lone conscionable heard of the occurrence and knew wherever Jazzy's was due to the fact that his nephew "saw it connected the news."

Earl Maxwell says he's known Griffin for years and helium has followed Griffin from determination to determination crossed Fresno.

"I'm going to dispersed the word," said Maxwell aft uncovering retired what happened. "I'm going to nonstop much radical here."

Griffin says that is precisely what helium needs. At 87 years old, he's not arsenic societal media savvy arsenic his neighbors - who person already reached retired to the assemblage for help. Griffin believes old-fashioned connection of rima and divine involution volition suffice.

"[My business] is not going down, due to the fact that I'm going to instrumentality with it until the precise end," Griffin said. "I'm blessed to beryllium here."

Jazzy's is unfastened from Tuesday to Saturday from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m., located astatine 1468 N Van Ness Avenue.