{"id":212001,"date":"2012-09-11T04:38:06","date_gmt":"2012-09-11T09:38:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=212001"},"modified":"2012-09-12T04:18:59","modified_gmt":"2012-09-12T09:18:59","slug":"east-texas-home-completely-destroyed-by-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=212001","title":{"rendered":"East Texas Home Completely Destroyed by Fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?attachment_id=212002\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-212002\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2012\/09\/504ebc93af51b.preview-300-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"504ebc93af51b.preview-300\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-212002\" \/><\/a>UPSHUR COUNTY &#8212; A fire on Sunday destroyed an Upshur County home near Big Sandy. According to the Longview News-Journal, smoke filled the sky as local volunteer firefighters from Big Sandy, Gladewater, Pritchett and Hawkins fought the fire. Upshur County Fire Marshal Paul Steelman, the fire started about 3:54 p.m. at the home at 5984 White Oak Road, west of Cherry Road. The older single-story home owned by Carolyn Tucker was a complete loss, Steelman said. A family of three (including a small child) who were renting the home were not in the house at the time the fire broke out, he said.<\/p>\n<p>Gladewater Fire Chief Wayne Smith said the home was engulfed in flames when crews arrived on the scene. He said crews maintained the fire so it did not spread. The cause of the fire is still under investigation by Steelman. The name of the family renting the home has not been released.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UPSHUR COUNTY &#8212; A fire on Sunday destroyed an Upshur County home near Big Sandy. According to the Longview News-Journal, smoke filled the sky as local volunteer firefighters from Big Sandy, Gladewater, Pritchett and Hawkins fought the fire. Upshur County Fire Marshal Paul Steelman, the fire started about 3:54 p.m. at the home at 5984 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=212001\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">East Texas Home Completely Destroyed by Fire<\/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-212001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-03 17:53:16","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\/212001","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=212001"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212001\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":212155,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212001\/revisions\/212155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=212001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=212001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=212001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}