{"id":292902,"date":"2014-02-27T14:00:26","date_gmt":"2014-02-27T20:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=292902"},"modified":"2014-02-28T14:32:33","modified_gmt":"2014-02-28T20:32:33","slug":"six-hurt-in-longview-house-fire-cause-sought","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=292902","title":{"rendered":"More Information Released on Major Longview House Fire"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"lv_house_fire_55\"<\/a>LONGVIEW — Brittany Ashby\u2019s maternal instincts took over Tuesday night when a house fire forced her to escape through a second-story window with two small children in tow. According to KETK and the Longview News-Journal, Ashby was about to tuck her 2-month-old son Gunner and his 1-year-old sister Sophie in bed when she smelled smoke. She tried to find out where it was coming from but only made it to a smaller room beside hers. \u201cThe smoke was already so strong. I couldn\u2019t go any further. I panicked and grabbed my kids, and I went to the window and the smoke was filling up the house,\u201d she said Thursday afternoon speaking from her hospital bed at Good Shepherd Medical Center, where she was hospitalized for smoke inhalation. \u201cI put my daughter out the window first, then I got my son out,\u201d she said, adding the flames started pouring out of the window after them. \u201cI had to act fast because I felt like I was about to pass out.\u201d <\/p>\n

The three were on the landing underneath the window, still about 12 feet from the ground. \u201cI had to let my baby girl fall first,\u201d Ashby continued as she choked back tears. \u201cWhen I saw that she was OK, I grabbed my son. I rolled off the roof the best I could without hurting him. I had to fall without landing on my daughter.\u201d Ashby was recovering from severe smoke inhalation by Wednesday evening. \u201c(Doctors said) I breathed in a lot of smoke. I still have a bunch of soot coming out of me,\u201d she said. \u201c(Sophie) is fine. A little bruised but she\u2019s smiling and talking.\u201d<\/p>\n

Gunner was flown to Children\u2019s Hospital in Dallas, where he was initially listed in critical condition. By Wednesday afternoon he had been upgraded to stable condition, said Jean Dula. Dula spoke for the family from Parkland Memorial Hospital, where 41-year-old Rene Christie was listed in critical condition. \u201cRene is not breathing on her own. She\u2019s on a (ventilator). She\u2019s not taking any breaths on her own,\u201d Dula said. Two other people \u2014 Shawn Garrison and Rene Christie\u2019s husband, Jonny \u2014 were at the home in the 2800 block of Tryon Road when the fire started. They were treated and released.<\/p>\n

The Red Cross is helping assist the victims and their families. Two dogs died in the fire, with a third being treated for injuries. Fire Marshal Johnny Zackary said the home did not have working smoke alarms. Zackary said the fire started in the living room but a cause has not been determined, though he believes it began with a space heater placed too close to a couch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

LONGVIEW — Brittany Ashby\u2019s maternal instincts took over Tuesday night when a house fire forced her to escape through a second-story window with two small children in tow. According to KETK and the Longview News-Journal, Ashby was about to tuck her 2-month-old son Gunner and his 1-year-old sister Sophie in bed when she smelled smoke. … Continue reading More Information Released on Major Longview 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-292902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-10 10:12:57","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\/292902","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=292902"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292902\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":293069,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292902\/revisions\/293069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=292902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=292902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=292902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}