While Miami Dolphins wide receiver Tyreek Hill was putting in the work at the team’s Baptist Health Training Complex across the street from Hard Rock Stadium, his Southwest Ranches home caught on fire.
The fire, which, at one point, was upgraded to a two-alarm fire, according to WSVN, was eventually controlled by firefighters on the scene and no one was hurt.
Hill left practice to meet to deal with the matter, and he was later caught by the news helicopters at his house with his wife and mother.
The rest of his teammates finished out their practice session, but a few of them spoke about the situation afterward. Here’s what they had to say:
QB Tua Tagovailoa
“I think that would be difficult for not just my teammates, but anyone in general to be going through what Tyreek is going through right now. The main thing is his family is safe, his loved ones are good and he’s good as well. I know it’s a little cliché to say, but things like that, part of the house, some of those things can be replaceable. I’m just glad that a lot of his family members are safe… I wasn’t able to talk to him. I didn’t know that it happened until after practice. So we’re thinking of them, hoping that everyone is good.”
FB Alec Ingold
“Just seeing him bolt and go take care of what he’s got to take care of right now, obviously he’s a prioritized guy and he’s going to take care of it. So you hope everyone’s safe, happy and healthy, can get out of there and just allow for family to be safe so that your home is good. That’s the priority in all of this. This is a workplace, this what we do for a job, but that’s obviously wellbeing. You definitely have prayers for their family that they can get out and Tyreek can go back and take care of business there… Man, it’s a shock, right? It catches you off guard a little bit. You don’t think that it’s ever going to happen to you until it does. It’s something as a team, we’ve got to be able to come together and make sure that we can reach out to Tyreek and be human beings with him and make sure everything is squared away and we can do everything we possibly can to help our teammate. That’s the human element of this locker room. I think that’s what special about this locker room is we actually do care about each other outside of the building. We’ve been there, we’ve taken care of one another, so it’s just another step in being good teammates and human beings to one another in this organization.”
CB Kader Kohou
On what he’d say to Hill: “I don’t really know. Just that we’re here for him. I’m glad that all his family members were safe. That’s crazy. My agent texted me and said his house was on fire, but I didn’t know it was that bad. That is bad… Family comes first. Family comes first, for sure. I would’ve done the same thing (left practice).”
