{"id":122530,"date":"2011-09-05T19:12:57","date_gmt":"2011-09-06T00:12:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=122530"},"modified":"2011-09-07T02:17:19","modified_gmt":"2011-09-07T07:17:19","slug":"gregg-county-wildfire-kills-two","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=122530","title":{"rendered":"Two Killed in Gregg County Fire Identified"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?attachment_id=122801\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-122801\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2011\/09\/valerie-mcbride-kloe-cheek.1315321453-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"valerie mcbride, kloe cheek.1315321453\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-122801\" \/><\/a>GREGG COUNTY \u2013 Fires in Gregg County have burned thousands of acres and are responsible for a couple of deaths. Community members are reacting after two bodies were found in a burned out mobile home on Gladewater\u2019s Lincoln Springs Road. Killed was Valerie McBride, 20 and her 18-month old daughter K\u2019loe Cheek. An autopsy has been ordered. Neighbor Debbie Johnston told KETK, \u201cMy heart does go out to them, because it\u2019s one thing to lose stuff, but when you lose people, that\u2019s terrible \u2014 that\u2019s absolutely terrible. But this community is so strong. They\u2019re tough\u2026you can tell they\u2019re all pulled together.\u201d Gladewater Police also confirm evacuations in the following areas: Rosy Wady Road, Lincoln Springs Road, Old Hwy (Old Gladewater Road), Tennerville Road. The fire that has destroyed at least 7 homes, at last report, was 60% contained.<\/p>\n<p>The Gregg County Sheriff\u2019s Department has reported evacuations for the Liberty City area. A wildfire was affecting an area just south of Interstate-20, near the intersection of Goforth Road and Mt. Pisgah Road. According to KETK, officials were calling the blaze a \u201cmajor fire,\u201d and several homes were being threatened. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GREGG COUNTY \u2013 Fires in Gregg County have burned thousands of acres and are responsible for a couple of deaths. Community members are reacting after two bodies were found in a burned out mobile home on Gladewater\u2019s Lincoln Springs Road. Killed was Valerie McBride, 20 and her 18-month old daughter K\u2019loe Cheek. An autopsy has &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=122530\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Two Killed in Gregg County Fire Identified<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-122530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-28 08:06:51","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=122530"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122530\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":123043,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122530\/revisions\/123043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=122530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=122530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=122530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}