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Fire guts family's new Crab Orchard home

December 02, 2010|By TODD KLEFFMAN

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CRAB ORCHARD — A family that had just settled in to their recently purchased home lost it and all they owned in a fire Thursday morning.

Freddie and Amanda Carman’s home at 1970 Ky. 39 about a mile south of Crab Orchard was gutted by flames.

Freddie Carman said his wife was home with son Alex, 3 — the youngest of the couple’s four children — when she noticed smoke in Alex’s room.

“She saw the smoke, grabbed him and ran out,” Freddie Carman said. “By the time she got outside, she couldn’t even see in the living room” that had filled with smoke.

A clothes dryer in Alex’s room was operating when Amanda Carman noticed the smoke, but Freddie Carman said it wasn’t known if the dryer sparked the fire, or even if the fire started in Alex’s room at the rear of the house.

Lincoln County Fire Chief Danny Glass said this morning the cause of the fire is undetermined but it appears to have started in the back room, possibly by the dryer.

“My report will say it’s undetermined, but in the comments section it will say it’s likely that it came from the dryer,” Glass said.

“There’s nothing suspicious about it at all. It appears to me to have started in that back room and then got into the second floor and spread,” Glass continued.

The fire was reported at 10:40 a.m. and the first engine arrived about 10 minutes later, Glass said. Firefighters had to be cautious in attacking the fire on the first floor because the upper story was also in flames and in danger of falling in.

“That’s why it took us a while” to get the fire under control,” the chief said.

Freddie Carman said his family had just bought the home four months ago and moved in from a rental property in Crab Orchard. They had just recently finished unpacking from the move and settle in to their new home.

“It looks like it’s gutted,” he said as he watched firefighters continue to attack hot spots inside the walls and in the attic of the home about noon.

The home was insured, Freddie Carman said.

The family will likely move in with family members in Garrard County until another home is found, he said. Glass said the Daniel Boone Chapter of the American Red Cross was notified and would help the family purchase essentials and get back on their feet.

Firefighters from all seven Lincoln County stations responded to the fire, along with crews from Brodhead and the Stanford Fire Department.

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