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.
SMILING Lexi Taylor, who will be eight tomorrow, realised her dream when she celebrated recovery from a brain tumour and meningitis - by ringing a bell outside her York home. The Clifton Green Primary School pupil has undergone a torrid 10 months of cancer treatment for a rare brain tumour the size of a tangerine, which included a seven-and-a-half hour operation. The youngster also contracted meningitis - but has now been given the all-clear after treatment at Leeds General Infirmary. However, she wasn’t able to ring the bell on leaving hospital, a ritual at the end of chemotherapy or radiation treatments that has become common in hospitals and clinics nationwide in recent years, as the bell was in isolation due to current Covid-19 restrictions.