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<\/p>\nFORT WORTH, Texas – A Fort Worth nonprofit sports club is asking for donations and volunteers to help rebuild after a fire destroyed its field, equipment and more.<\/p>\n
Hallmark Eagles facilities burn down <\/p>\n
What we know:<\/p>\n
The Hallmark Eagles, a nonprofit sports organization in Fort Worth, saw a fire destroy its equipment and its concession stand.<\/p>\n
The organization’s mower, scoreboard, inflatable tunnel, field markers and more were destroyed in the blaze.<\/p>\n
Local perspective:<\/p>\n
The nonprofit has been around since the late 1960s, and is the longest-running youth sports club in Fort Worth. It offers football, cheerleading, and more to socioeconomically disadvantaged families.<\/p>\n
Several NFL players played youth football with Hallmark, including Arizona Cardinals linebacker Baron Browning and former Atlanta Falcons running back Jase McLellan.<\/p>\n
What they’re saying:<\/p>\n
“From what the fire department was saying they think, they weren\u2019t sure how it started, but he thought it might\u2019ve started in a trash can,” says Newton Braziel, who has coached the program for decades.<\/p>\n
Braziel suggested that a homeless person could have been staying in the concession stand and caused the fire. Clothes were found inside the burned-down building.<\/p>\n
He and his daughter Keisha are hoping to overcome the odds and rebuild.<\/p>\n
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What you can do:<\/p>\n
Hallmark is asking for volunteers to help cut down weeds, replace broken stands, paint, and remove unusable items in the concession stand.<\/p>\n
They’re hoping to have rebuilt enough by October 3 to host their homecoming game. A volunteer has already offered to mow the field.<\/p>\n
A GoFundMe has been set up for the nonprofit, which you can find here<\/a>.<\/p>\n The Source: Information in this story comes from the Hallmark Eagles.<\/p>\n Fort Worth<\/a>Crime and Public Safety<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FORT WORTH, Texas – A Fort Worth nonprofit sports club is asking for donations and volunteers to help…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":439275,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[1046,116,118,117,223,122,216,393],"class_list":["post-439274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-worth","tag-crime-publicsafety","tag-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth-headlines","tag-fort-worth-news","tag-news","tag-tarrant-county","tag-tx","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439274","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=439274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439274\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/439275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=439274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=439274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=439274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}