Officials say a Wilkes County firefighter shot his girlfriend before turning the gun on himself. The couple worked at two different stations who are in mourning.
A home at the end of Brookwood Drive in the Ken Acres subdivision in Wilkesboro was heavily damaged but not destroyed by fire late on the afternoon of Dec. 30.
âHeavy flames were rolling from the side (of the house) when we arrived, but we were able to get a fast knockdownâ and prevent it from being a complete loss, Wilkesboro Fire Chief Jason Smithey.
Smithey said the fire started in the garage at the base of the right side of the split-level, brick and wood frame home, went up a wall to the next floor, spread into three bedrooms there and continued upward until flames were coming from the roof on the right side of the house.