Fire Destroys Home In Tippecanoe
July 28, 2016 at 4:25 p.m.
TIPPECANOE - Seven fire departments were called to the scene of a fire that destroyed a home in rural Tippecanoe Sunday morning.
The fire broke out just after 7 a.m. at the James Dawson home, located on the 1700 block of Birch Road.
Tippecanoe Fire Chief Lenny Berkey said Dawson left a cigarette burning in an ashtray by a chair when he took the family's dog out Sunday morning. He returned to bed but went back downstairs when the smoke alarm went off.
When Dawson got downstairs he found the chair on fire and he could not put it out. He went back upstairs for his wife and two children; the family escaped from a second-story window and jumped to the ground from an attached garage.
Dawson's wife, Debra, suffered a fractured leg and was treated and released at St. Joseph's Hospital of Marshall County, Plymouth. No one else was injured.
Firemen were at the scene about four hours. The Dawsons' home was destroyed by the blaze. [[In-content Ad]]
TIPPECANOE - Seven fire departments were called to the scene of a fire that destroyed a home in rural Tippecanoe Sunday morning.
The fire broke out just after 7 a.m. at the James Dawson home, located on the 1700 block of Birch Road.
Tippecanoe Fire Chief Lenny Berkey said Dawson left a cigarette burning in an ashtray by a chair when he took the family's dog out Sunday morning. He returned to bed but went back downstairs when the smoke alarm went off.
When Dawson got downstairs he found the chair on fire and he could not put it out. He went back upstairs for his wife and two children; the family escaped from a second-story window and jumped to the ground from an attached garage.
Dawson's wife, Debra, suffered a fractured leg and was treated and released at St. Joseph's Hospital of Marshall County, Plymouth. No one else was injured.
Firemen were at the scene about four hours. The Dawsons' home was destroyed by the blaze. [[In-content Ad]]