Please donate to help us recover from a fire.
Hey guys. I’m Case, I have gone by many names and worn many hats on here, caseJackal, hi im case, Jason Iscariot, AskKarkatVoice, briefly Broadway Karkat 2, and recently a fundraising coordinator for the Kenosha Theater Restoration Project.
My building caught fire earlier this week. This is the Kenosha Theatre, a 2000+ seat theater building that my apartment is situated above. On Thursday, a fire started in the kitchen of the apartment across from me. The hall and soon my apartment quickly filled with smoke. It was too thick to leave through, and I ended up being stuck in my apartment as I called 911. After waiting a few minutes, I had to punch out the screen screwed to the outside of my window in order to climb out.
Everyone in the building is fine. Everyone’s pets are fine. But we have fire damage, water damage, smoke damage, and some doors and windows and other things broken because of the fire rescue.
Personally, I’ve had a pretty bad traumatic history with house fires. It’s hard to go back into my apartment with the residual smoke and ash getting to me. My last experience was a massive perspective shift, and after 10 years, going through it again is a lot to process, especially with everything else I’ve been dealing with this past year.
Since this time last year, I’ve been sexually assaulted, I’ve been nearly stranded in a country on the other side of the planet, I’ve have had accounts w my bank info broken into, I’ve had all of my work computers and devices die at some point and had to pay to replace them, with some help. I’ve faced letters that I’m getting kicked off of my healthcare, and power disconnect notices. It’s been a lot to juggle, and I’m very grateful for all the help my friends have given me. But im incredibly exhausted still, and this is yet another setback.
The theater lobby, pictured above, was restored thanks to the fundraising efforts predominantly of my incredible friend spoony, who also lives here. Over the past few years, we’ve been able to restore the lobby’s plaster and original paint job, and redid the drainage above it, but we didn’t expect a firehose worth of water to come through and cause so much of our work to be undone.
We have fire insurance, but our deductible is very high and we don’t know how much they will be paying for.
I have a gofundme linked, that further explains the situation. If you can contribute anything, if you can spread the word, I would appreciate this immensely.
