SALT LAKE CITY — Actor and Salt Lake resident Ty Burrell is helping the effort to raise funds for restaurant workers affected by this week’s Main Street fire in what he calls a “sequel nobody wanted.”
Burrell, who also co-owns Bar X and Beer Bar downtown, joined Salt Lake City Mayor Erin Mendenhall and Salt Lake City Downtown Alliance executive director Dee Brewer in a video Thursday asking people to consider donating to the Main Street Fire Employee Assistance Fund. The Downtown Alliance launched the fund on Tuesday, seeking to collect at least $500,000 that will be distributed to employees who suddenly lost work after four Main Street businesses were destroyed Monday night.
“On Tuesday morning, 200 of our neighbors woke up unemployed. These are people who have taken care of us. Now, it’s our turn to take care of them,” Burrell said in the video, while sporting a Salt Lake City Fire Department cap…