Bayfield’s community is coming together to help eight residents who lost everything in a tragic fire.
22-year-old Tyler High woke up from his Saturday afternoon nap to someone banging loudly on his door.
It wasn’t until he saw smoke billowing up the stairs that he realized what was going on.
“I immediately jumped out of my bed,” High said. “Threw all my stuff in my basket. Tried to throw as much stuff out of my window as I could.” Unfortunately, he wasn’t able to save much. He lost all of his furniture and many other personal belongings.
“It may not have been much but it was what I could afford,” High said. “I lost a lot of my clothes, some memorabilia.”
He and seven other people are now without a home after Saturday’s fire.
Just down the road, employees at local thrift store Encore saw the blaze and jumped in to do what they could.