A fire early Sunday morning destroyed the two story home of Greg and Kelley Overbey at 4477 Four Seasons Road.
County Fire Chief Donny Green says firefighters received the call at 2:36 a.m.
The Overbey family awoke to a house full of smoke and saw flames coming from the basement. Overbey’s wife and children escaped unharmed but Mr. Overbey suffered some minor abrasions as he jumped through a bedroom window to get out of the house.
The home apparently had no working smoke alarms.
Chief Green says a neighbor spotted the fire and reported it.
Members of the Midway, Keltonburg, and Cookeville Highway Stations responded along with the tanker truck, DeKalb EMS, and the Sheriff’s Department., but the house was too far gone and could not be saved. The family lost nearly all their belongings and a dog in the fire.
The cause is officially undetermined but it apparently started in the basement.
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