Skip to main content
Global Edition
Thursday, May 2, 2024

On the eve of the 4-month anniversary construction crews are working to rebuild Phoenix

Credit: KDRV
Duration: 0 shares 3 views

On the eve of the 4-month anniversary construction crews are working to rebuild Phoenix
On the eve of the 4-month anniversary construction crews are working to rebuild Phoenix

On the eve of the 4-month anniversary construction crews are working to rebuild Phoenix

Rebuilding.

A number of construction companies are working hard to clear the debris newswatch 12s adam schumes spent the day with another construction company who has ties to phoenix and he joins us now with an update.

Cory lee henson has been working in construction for the last 20 years.

He tells me that he has never had to rebuild like this after the summers wildfires.

In a time when people need to come together "stay together, get along, get it cleaned up and get back to work" you are seeing it first hand in phoenix "for us we are a smaller company a smaller crew, it might take us a few days to come in and clean up a house or a lot" cody lee henson and his team are working to rebuild a community that they know first hand "my main foreman his mom lost her house.

Um, the younger gentleman that go to phoenix high school, they were all impacted.

Um, one of the, one of my guys, his family lost three or four homes and, uh, the other gentlemen, friends and family also lost, lost homes.

A community that has raised them "i went to phoenix high school and so did most of my crew" and that same community that they watched disappear in a blink on an eye "we live right here in phoenix.

Uh, we were fortunate enough not to lose our home, um, but it came very close.

Um, we stayed and fought" now without football on friday nights --- my home was actually on the firebreak, but my family, we lost five houses and two businesses in the family.

Huntyr croy and some of his classmates "it's been tough, we getting through it everybody is starting to rebuild now which is nice are putting their time in on a different terf "i making sure that this town will show their true colors once again "tell him just keep on keeping forward.

Try to get ahead of the game as quick as he can.

If you need help, shout out to somebody, your neighbor or something.

Get help.

Don't wait."

Now cody tells me that he has

You might like