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Fire destroys house
Home a ‘complete loss,’ cause not known
Published Thursday, May 28, 2009
Photo by Andrew Garner
This house in Gantt was completely destroyed by a fire Thursday afternoon. No one was in the house at the time.
A raging house fire destroyed a home in Gantt Thursday.
Firefighters and emergency personnel were dispatched shortly after 11:30 a.m. to a home on Weant Road and arrived to find it fully involved.
The cause of the fire is unknown, but officials deemed the home a complete loss.
Firefighters and emergency personnel were required to make a second trip to the residence shortly after 5 p.m. after reports the blaze had restarted.
Personnel from Gantt, Heath, Dozier and Brantley fire departments, as well as Advanced EMS responded to the blaze.
The names of the homeowners were unknown as of press time.
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Posted by Beanstalk (anonymous) on May 30, 2009 at 1:41 p.m. (Suggest removal)
I was passing through when the second fire was going. Prior to the fire departments arrival two men had stopped at the house as well, One yelled to the gathering crowd had anyone checked to make sure there was no one inside, and the answer was no. As he ran towards the house and was making his way in through the front door someone yelled that the man who lived there had left earlier, at this time his attention turned to a small puppy that was chained to a dog pen close to the side of the house, Him and the other man went to the puppy and moved the entire dog pen and puppy out of harms way. They were not done, From that point one man ran to help the ONLY Fireman there at the time with the hose and disappeared inside the burning home, The other man helped the driver of the fire truck and went around the other side with another hose. Mind you the spectators and myself saw this house was soon to be burnt to the ground as the fire was already through the roof in the back. Soon the fire was being put out and the smoke was becoming less. The house was not going to be a total burn, Thanks to these two (Unknown Men??) and the Gantt Heath Fire Depts. Sad this happened to this person’s house. But there was more to the story, A Good side to the story, TWO men that are known to me, but I will refrain from posting their names, as I know they did it not for the glory but from the heart! How do I know this? Well as soon as everything was safe and the fire departments were cleaning up they quickly and quietly left the property. If you guys read this I say THANK YOU for your honest hard willingness to put yourself into harms way for a stranger, and a cute puppy. God Bless you! Bean,
PS GREAT JOB GANTT/HEATH VFD! Proud to live here knowing we have heros such as you!
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