LEXINGTON, KY. (WKYT) – The owners of small businesses often give everything to their companies, and this is the case for Laura Mobley -Corn, owner of Express Employment Professionals in Lexington.
“We had just taken a new carpet, new floors, new offices. I was going to come yesterday and paint,” she said.
Now Mobley-Corn must rebuild the physical parts of his business from zero.
It was because she said that someone had kicked one of her windows early Saturday morning and set fire to the business.
“It was devastating. It’s not just that someone will do this and we all suffer and they get away,” she said.
What the fire has not damaged, the sprinklers have done.
She said she estimated that there were about $ 100,000 in damage.
“I am a small business, my savings of life are there. I cannot break down,” said Mobley-Corn.
She added that it is not only she who is impacted by this.
“This affects my internal employees. Moms single, mothers, young girls who have just left university. This is how they pay invoices, and this affects all our candidates who come for which we are looking for jobs. ”
Mobley-Corn said the police are still trying to determine exactly who did this.
She asks all business owners or people who live in the Patchen Drive region to come forward if they have a surveillance video from 1 a.m. to 5 a.m. on Saturday morning.
She also said that if someone had seen something suspicious or if he had information on this subject to contact her at (859) 971-1011.
People can also contact Lexington Police or Lexington Fire Service.
“The one who did that, you didn’t just hurt me. You have injured a lot of people,” she said.
Mobley-Corn said that the company will operate in space above their usual location.
She also wants to thank the Building Industry Association and Paul Davis Restoration for having helped her get back on his feet.
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