Just before midday today, fire teams rushed towards the Antelope Street area, unto Laura Dunn Street. That's where a small wooden home situated in a family lot along with three other homes, went up in smoke.
The fire spread rapidly throughout the structure, and firemen arrived just in time before the blaze could jump to the other houses. Though no one was at home inside the house during the fire, one of the residents told us how he got the fright of his life this morning.
Michael Flowers, Relative of Fire Victim
"I left My yard about 10:30 and they left a little earlier because they go to work. so they went to work and drop their kids at school now I'm at home and I went out to buy my stuff. When I went to pick up my stuff and I was walking back down the road, I saw some big flames."
"When I'm coming down the road now when I looked, I saw a big flame but I didn't really know what was happening. I got a little closer. I saw the house under flames. So I ran into the yard. I thought I tried to throw some water I was bawling out calling for people. But I think it was because of the breeze because the rest of the houses could've caught on fire but we noticed it's only that one because of the breeze the way it is blowing. My stepdaughter lives in the house."
"I broke the pipe trying to out the fire. I was trying to wet the other house because the gas tank is there and I didn't want it to blow up and I didn't want the other houses to catch fire."
Reporter
"How fast was the house destroyed?"
Michael Flowers, Relative of Fire Victim
"I don't really know how much time but it probably took about 45 minutes because the breeze was blowing too right."
