{"id":279815,"date":"2013-10-18T03:47:55","date_gmt":"2013-10-18T08:47:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=279815"},"modified":"2013-10-18T12:16:35","modified_gmt":"2013-10-18T17:16:35","slug":"one-person-killed-in-kilgore-house-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=279815","title":{"rendered":"Man Killed in Kilgore House Fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?attachment_id=279950\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-279950\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2013\/10\/DocumentFragment_2726231-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"DocumentFragment_2726231\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-279950\" \/><\/a>KILGORE \u2014 An early morning fire in Kilgore has left one man dead and eight others displaced. That\u2019s according to the Longview News-Journal. Of the nine people inside the home, including four children, Calvin Sickler (pictured), 31, was unable to escape the fire, according to his brother James Riggins. \u201cI tried to get him out, but I couldn\u2019t,\u201d Riggins said Thursday morning while standing outside the charred remains of the wood-frame home in the 700 block of Spell Street. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Fire officials said the fire started about 6:45am and the home was fully involved when they arrived on scene three minutes later. \u201cFire was coming from every window, every eave,\u201d said Michael Simmons, assistant fire chief with the Kilgore Fire Department. \u201cPrior to our arrival, two police officers were on scene trying to pull the victim from a window, but the fire was just too hot.\u201d People inside the home at the time of the fire told officials the entire home was on fire when they woke up, Simmons said. Fire officials have not determined the cause or where in the house the fire started. None of the other occupants were injured in the blaze. Simmons said Red Cross is assisting the family with shelter and basic needs. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KILGORE \u2014 An early morning fire in Kilgore has left one man dead and eight others displaced. That\u2019s according to the Longview News-Journal. Of the nine people inside the home, including four children, Calvin Sickler (pictured), 31, was unable to escape the fire, according to his brother James Riggins. \u201cI tried to get him out, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=279815\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Man Killed in Kilgore House 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-279815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-09 05:09:38","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\/279815","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=279815"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279815\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":279968,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279815\/revisions\/279968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=279815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=279815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=279815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}