UPDATED:
The daughter of the restaurant’s owner has started a fundraiser: “I would really like to surprise her and try to help her rebuild everything.”
ORIGINAL REPORT:
A fire has destroyed most of the standalone building that has been the home of the Chin Chin Chinese restaurant in East Cobb for nearly three decades.
The early Tuesday morning blaze consumed most the restaurant’s facility at 617 Johnson Ferry Road.
It’s located just south of Lower Roswell Road and across from the entrance to Parkaire Landing Shopping Center, in between a Waffle House and Dunkin Donuts.
Cobb District Fire Chief Justin Green told East Cobb News that a 911 call was received around 1 a.m. Tuesday, and firefighters arrived on the scene a few minutes later to find smoke and fire coming through the roof of the building.
Crews were inside when the roof collapsed, and the fire took five hours to contain, with more than 300,000 gallons of water needed to put it out.
Green said around 35 firefighters and other personnel were on the scene—five engines, three ladder trucks, a rescue vehicle and two battalion chiefs—and that no one was injured.
Two lanes of Johnson Ferry Road southbound were closed while fire crews were on the scene early Tuesday morning.
Green said the cause of the fire is still being investigated, and that it might take longer than is usual due to the roof collapse.
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I’d like to send her a check…might you be so kind as to provide contact info? I don’t like the gofundme route since they take a hefty percentage of the donation
Does anyone know how to contact Jasmine to offer wishes and possible other assistance?
Yes!