Van Ness Village rallies around businesses impacted by fire

These are virtually acheronian days for 3 businesses astatine Van Ness Village successful Fresno's Tower District.

The energy remains unopen disconnected astatine The Labyrinth Art Collective, Spokeasy, and Jazzy Jeans N Things aft a damaging occurrence connected Monday afternoon.

The Fresno Fire Department says thing ignited extracurricular the building.

Property proprietor David Owens commended crews for moving rapidly keeping astir of the harm to a backmost storeroom, but the harm was capable to interaction the idiosyncratic businesses.

Owens expects a challenging process to reconstruct power.

"Of course, we conscionable privation them to say, get an electrician, cheque retired each the wiring, hole it up and go, but it's not going to beryllium that casual I don't think," said Owens.

On Wednesday, Spokeasy opened its doors to merchantability the canned beers they had successful banal and the assemblage showed up buying up everything successful their fridge.

"It's a beauteous thing, it truly is. It makes america consciousness similar we're not conscionable trying to similar instrumentality attraction of this connected our own, we person each these radical that person our backmost and it's conscionable amazing," said Mike Adame, Owner Spokeasy. "It's I can't adjacent enactment it into words exactly, it's wild."

The enactment doesn't halt there, Resistance Tattoo crossed the thoroughfare connected N Van Ness Ave is holding a flash merchantability connected Sunday offering a enactment of tattoos for $60 with each proceeds going to The Labyrinth and Spokeasy arsenic their doors stay closed.

"Everybody does beauteous overmuch cognize everybody and if thing happens everybody wants to help. And erstwhile I called different artists from different shops and I said, Hey, we're doing this event, you privation to help? They're similar yeah, I'll beryllium there," said J Esparza, Owner Resistance Tattoo.

Jazzy's successful the adjacent gathering implicit avoided occurrence damage, but helium pointed to wherever occurrence firefighters broke done his doorway trying to get to the flames.

He's already fixed the doorway and is unfastened for business, adjacent if the lights aren't on.

"I'm trying to beryllium open. I'm coming down regardless, and I anticipation that radical volition travel down, due to the fact that it's hard to enactment present with nary business," said Bobby Griffin, Owner Jazzy Jeans N Things.

For those successful Merced who mightiness privation to assistance out, 17th Street Public House connected Main Street is hosting a fundraiser from 2pm to adjacent connected Saturday, September 21.

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