Community rallies for Kalispell business destroyed by fire
Jana and Tanner Roach on Tuesday, Dec. 31, stand at the site of the building that housed their woodworking shop that was destroyed by fire on Dec. 17. (Casey Kreider/Daily Inter Lake)
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Cody Kearney, of Kearney Enterprises, uses an excavator to tear down the remains of a building housing the Roach's woodworking shop that was destroyed in a fire on Dec. 17. (Casey Kreider/Daily Inter Lake)
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Tanner Roach, left, and Cody Kearney, of Kearney Enterprises, who was on site to raze the structure, watch as Jana Roach sifts through some of the remnants of the building that housed their woodworking shop destroyed by fire on Dec. 17. (Casey Kreider/Daily Inter Lake)
Casey Kreider
A fire ripped through Tanner and Jana Roach’s Kalispell business, Beck and Cap, in the early morning hours of Dec. 17, destroying everything within its walls.
“You just don't know how to prepare for something like that. You think about it, but the reality of it is there is just so much that is destroyed that you don't think about,” said Jana Roach.
But friends and neighbors rallied behind the Roach family in the aftermath of the blaze that consumed the Quonset hut on Sixth Avenue West near the intersection with Center Street, supporting them through a GoFundMe fundraiser. With a goal of raising $60,000, the effort has collected over $15,500 since it was launched on Dec. 19.
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