EMERGENCY SUPPORT FOR STUDENTS IN NEED
ANNE BURNETT MARION SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT TEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY
On June 23, 2025, a six-alarm fire at The Cooper — a large apartment complex located across Rosedale Avenue from the Burnett School of Medicine's Arnold Hall in Fort Worth’s Medical Innovation District — has impacted more than 40 medical students who call The Cooper home. The fire originated in the complex’s HVAC system, causing severe smoke damage and displacing more than 800 residents in total.
Our affected students need immediate support as they face the challenges of relocation, and replenishment of household items, clothing, and more. Your gift to the Student Emergency Fund will move through an established process of oversight and equitable distribution to those in need.
We expect the current balance of the fund to be quickly exhausted, and gifts of any size help meet the most critical needs of our students during this crisis. THANK YOU for your consideration of support.
Medical school is a journey marked by immense challenges and profound rewards. We often remind our students that the path they’ve chosen is not easy — but it is deeply meaningful. Unfortunately, sometimes significant adversity may crash into the students’ journey.
Such was the case on June 23, when a six-alarm fire at The Cooper — the large apartment complex across Rosedale Avenue from the Burnett School of Medicine at TCU’s Arnold Hall, directly affected more than 40 of our students who called it home. The emotional toll has been significant, not only for those who lived there, but also for their classmates. Most impressively, they all rallied to support and comfort one another.
Many of our students moved to Fort Worth from across the country and around the world. In the shadow of this crisis, they longed for a sense of family — a reassuring embrace to remind them they are not alone. You answered that call. And for that, I am profoundly grateful and feel so fortunate that this is our community.
This fire has underscored the extraordinary compassion and generosity of our Burnett School community. On the day of the fire, scores of individuals immediately began to address this emergency while offers for help rapidly started coming into our school from near and afar. This allowed us to quickly replenish essential needs for our students, such as household essentials, clothing, gift cards for food and monetary support.
You played an invaluable and profound role in offering our students a rapid sense of caring and love from our community. Your support also has enabled those with the greatest unmet needs to secure new housing, covering deposits and advance rent payments during a time of great vulnerability and uncertainty. I am very pleased to share that our students have shown grit in the throes of surviving a fire, remaining focused on the demands of their training while also showing empathy for their classmates and immense appreciation for all who have helped them.
Because of your kindness, we’ve been able to ease the burden of these difficult days and affirm a powerful truth: No Burnett School student will ever face a personal crisis alone.
On behalf of our students, faculty and staff, please accept my heartfelt gratitude. By opening your hearts, you’ve provided a lasting example of empathy and compassion — one our students will carry with them for decades to come, forever remembering the heart and love of TCU and Fort Worth.
Thank you!
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