For some reason, I didn`t hear the initial page early in the morning on the 28th, was sleeping pretty good I guess, but then woke up on the second alarm page, for a house fire north of town at the intersection of Little Boone Creek Road and Hardecke Road, although it wasn`t paged like that…turned out to be the Tourville Residence and there were several fire trucks there when I arrived to photograph it for the local paper…..

…although you can`t see him, Jimmy Smythe was operating the pumper and drafting water from the drop tank….

…there was heavy damage to the front of the house, crews said later it was coming out like a blowtorch on arrival….