A nonprofit that’s trained generations of young Fort Worth athletes is facing a major setback after a fire destroyed equipment worth thousands.<\/p>\n
As Hallmark Youth Association\u2019s football season gets underway, president Newtown Braziel says they\u2019re working to rebuild the property they\u2019ve called home since 1965. <\/p>\n
\u201cAll of our yard equipment, everything. Everything burned,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Braziel said he discovered the burned-out concession stand back in early July, just weeks before young football players were set to suit up.<\/p>\n
He said firefighters told him they believe the fire began in a trash can.<\/p>\n
It claimed field equipment and the $10,000 inflatable that welcomes players to the field.<\/p>\n
More crucially, the building stored the generator, pumps and hoses that maintained the field.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe kids, it discouraged them to see it and to hear about it and to know it, because it\u2019s a lot of tradition here,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Hallmark is a non-profit.<\/p>\n
Braziel says they work to make sure all kids who want to participate in track, cheer and football get a chance. <\/p>\n
While they play on other fields, losing this one means more fees, lost rental revenue and a missed opportunity to hold the fundraisers that could help them rebound. <\/p>\n
\u201cAs far as playing here this year, it would be really tough for us to get back this year. We\u2019d like to try to get back here for our homecoming game, but it would take a miracle probably,\u201d said Braziel. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A nonprofit that’s trained generations of young Fort Worth athletes is facing a major setback after a fire…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":438384,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[116,118,117],"class_list":["post-438383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth-headlines","tag-fort-worth-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=438383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438383\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/438384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=438383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=438383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=438383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}