Sometimes, luck is better than skill

Firemen check out the fire source. It was a hot, hot evening Monday, June 22, when two firemen, A. J. Rollins and Dustin Wilson, an EMT, Kristen Maddox and a nurse, Courtney Collins, from Juliette, near Forsyth, were traveling on SR 91, north of Colquitt. One of the firemen spotted a modular home on fire at 2300 Highway 91 N. They jumped out of their vehicle and started fighting the fire with a garden hose.

Just after these firemen were out fighting the fire, Chief Craig Tully and Assistant Chief Ken Roberts were returning from Savannah from a fire meeting.

Chief Tully said that Asst. Chief Roberts saw the firemen out in the yard of the home of Marjorie Brown, 73, fighting the fire. Tully and Roberts got out of their vehicle to assist the other firemen.

Mrs. Brown and her grandson, Kendall Brown, 7, were in the home at the time the blaze occurred.

Chief Tully stated that the other firemen almost had the fire out when they got there. The E911 dispatcher was called to come to the scene with an ambulance and fire truck since the owner, Mrs. Brown was in the home when the fire was blazing on the front porch.

The cause of the fire was undetermined at the time. A sofa on the front porch was completely burned, and there was smoke damage from the blaze.

Mrs. Brown was checked out by the EMTs, and the firemen removed the smoke and the burned sofa from the scene.

Chief Tully and Asst. Chief Roberts stated that the homeowner was fortunate that the Forsyth firemen saw the fire and did what they do best with what they had. They saved the home and possibly saved the occupants that were inside.