Burkeville Fire Chief Charles Duckworth says assistance has been requested from the Red Cross and Salvation Army for a couple who lost everything in an early Tuesday afternoon house fire.
Duckworth said it happened at the Laura Brittan & Henry Trammell residence, located at 677 Private Road 6039, about 5 miles southeast of Burkeville.
Both the Burkeville and Newton Fire Departments responded and the first firefighters on the scene reported that the singlewide mobile home was already fully engulfed upon their arrival.
Thereâs no word on a possible cause of the blaze, and fortunately there were no injuries.
Burkeville Fire Chief Charles Duckworth says two people were critically injured in a weekend accident involving multiple motorcycles.
According to Duckworth, firefighters were dispatched out shortly after 5:00 Saturday evening to a location on Highway 87 about 4 miles north of Burkeville. They arrived to find that the incident had occurred in a curve and involved a total of six motorcycles.
Sergeant Stephanie Davis of the Texas Department of Public Safety said the crash occurred near Farm to Market Road 1415. Davis said an investigation revealed that a 2005 BMW was traveling southbound on Highway 87 when the driver entered a curve at a high rate of speed and lost control of the bike causing it to leave the road and hit several trees.