Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: THURSDAY, May 3, 1990 TAG: 9005030487
SECTION: VIRGINIA PAGE: B-5 EDITION: METRO
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DATELINE: LENGTH: Medium
A fire at 4447 Indian Hills Road near Glenvar destroyed the two-story brick home of Jack Wynn and his family.
The fire was reported at 12:42 p.m. by cable TV servicemen who were in the area.
Wynn, a salesman for a Greensboro company, said he had left the house for about one hour to search for a missing cocker spaniel and returned to find his home on fire.
Wynn was the only member of the family in the area at the time of the fire. No one was injured but the house was "pretty near" a total loss, said Lt. Tom Bier of the Fort Lewis Fire Department.
Coy Daugherty, a neighbor who was working outside about 200 yards away, said he never saw the fire until he heard the Fire Department's sirens.
Flames were coming through the roof of the house when the Fire Department arrived, Bier said. The cause of the fire was still under investigation, he said.
Wynn said he had lived in the house, which was roughly 10 years old, for about a year.
An earlier fire Wednesday destroyed a vacant house at the Virginia Tech research farm at Catawba.
Most of the house was already ablaze when firefighters arrived and a decision was made to let it burn rather than risk injury to anyone, said Henry Dickerson, a captain with the Catawba Fire Department.
The cause of the fire, which was reported at 10:15 a.m., had not been determined nor had the value of the house, which had been vacant for roughly 10 years, Dickerson said.
by CNB