Flames rip through North Jackson home
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NORTH JACKSON, Tenn. — A North Jackson family is now homeless after a massive and destructive fire guts their home. The plume of black smoke billowing from the home could be seen for miles around. It broke out at a home on Starlight Cove, and fire officials say a neighbor doing yard work saw the smoke around 1:45 p.m. Tuesday and called 911. “I looked, and I saw the smoke billowing out of the house,” said Stan Perkins who lives across the street. “By the time the fire trucks got here it was pretty much engulfed in flames.” Fire officials say the fire started on the second floor of the home and quickly spread to the rest of the house causing everything to collapse. “The roof was collapsing just very shortly after we got here,” said Battalion Chief Lindsay Roberts with the Jackson Fire Department. “It didn’t take long for the second story floors to collapse into the first.” Crews say no one was home when the fire broke out. Neighbors say it was hard to see their friends lose everything. “It’s a helpless thing to just sit there and watch,” Perkins said. “Your heart goes out to them. Today their world was devastated.” Perkins says the Jackson Fire Department did the best they could to save the home. “When they got here they were fighting, going straight to the hydrants,” Perkins said. “You could tell they knew exactly the steps to take.” Fire officials say they were lucky the fire did not spread through the neighborhood. “These houses were far enough apart that we didn’t have that problem,” Roberts said. Officials say it took more than an hour to get the fire under control. The cause of the fire is still under investigation.
