{"id":522181,"date":"2026-03-25T15:29:12","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T15:29:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/522181\/"},"modified":"2026-03-25T15:29:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T15:29:12","slug":"more-than-200k-raised-for-jessi-pierces-family-after-fatal-minnesota-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/522181\/","title":{"rendered":"More than $200K raised for Jessi Pierce’s family after fatal Minnesota fire"},"content":{"rendered":"

A GoFundMe donation page<\/a> has nearly reached its goal of $250,000 for the family of NHL reporter Jessi Pierce and her three children, all of whom died in a fire at their Minnesota home<\/a> Saturday.<\/p>\n

As of late Wednesday morning, more than $206,000 has been raised to cover funeral expenses and provide financial support for Pierce\u2019s husband, Mike Hinrichs.<\/p>\n

Pierce, 37, her young children Hudson, Cayden, and Avery, and the family dog died in the fire.<\/p>\n

A GoFundMe donation page has nearly reached its goal of $250,000 for the family of NHL reporter, Jessi Pierce and her three children, who died in a fired at their Minnesota home on Saturday. Instagram\/Jessi Pierce<\/p>\n

The children reportedly were ages 4, 6, and 8.<\/p>\n

Her husband was out of town on a work trip at the time of the fire,\u00a0The Athletic reported<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The White Bear Lake Fire Department was called to the home on Richard Avenue just before 5:30 a.m. Saturday.<\/p>\n

\u201cNeighbors that made the 911 call reported seeing fire coming through the roof of the house and stated there were likely people inside of the house,\u201d\u00a0the fire department <\/a>said in a release Monday.<\/p>\n

Jessi Pierce was a contributor to NHL.com for the past 10 seasons, and worked for the Minnesota Wild. Instagram\/Jessi Pierce<\/p>\n

Peterson explained that the department has ruled out arson at this point.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are in the very early stages of the investigation, and our preliminary findings have not led to the any evidence that the fire was set intentionally,\u201d\u00a0Peterson said. \u201cOur priorities are, first and foremost, being present for those directly affected by this tragedy, conducting a thorough investigation, and ensuring our first responders involved in this incident heal alongside the community.\u201d<\/p>\n

Pierce was a contributor to NHL.com for the past 10 seasons and covered Minnesota Wild.<\/p>\n

She was also the co-host of the \u201cBardown Beauties\u201d podcast <\/a>with Wild in-game host Kirsten Krull.<\/p>\n

Jessi Pierce and her family. https:\/\/www.gofundme.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cThe entire National Hockey League family sends our prayers and deepest condolences to the Pierce family on the passing of Jessi Pierce and her three young children,\u201d the NHL said in a statement. <\/p>\n

\u201cJessi loved our game and was a valued member of the NHL.com team for a decade. We will miss her terribly.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A GoFundMe donation page has nearly reached its goal of $250,000 for the family of NHL reporter Jessi…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":522182,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5118],"tags":[5,161,38,5280,4,43,3612,162],"class_list":{"0":"post-522181","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-minnesota-wild","8":"tag-hockey","9":"tag-minnesota","10":"tag-minnesota-wild","11":"tag-minnesotawild","12":"tag-nhl","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-sports-media","15":"tag-wild"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116290530097257933","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=522181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522181\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/522182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=522181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=522181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=522181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}