Comments on: Controversy In Kentucky

By: ray

ray — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 18:18:10 +0000

i was there the whole time ,i also helped them gather what belognings they could i sat on the sidewalk and put what little bit of the whitsells life was left in boxes.i thought that the city manager was very rude and way to quick to order the house torn down ,what if this had been his home would he have so quick to tear it down then?and another thing while the f/d were eating thier dinner the house continued to burn. WHAT KIND OF CITY OFFICALS RUN THIS TOWN? my prayers are with the whitesells may GOD BLESS YOU!!!!!!!!

By: ray

ray — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 18:18:00 +0000

By: dee

dee — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 16:17:03 +0000

i was there from the beginning to the end,and the whitesells were treated horribly. the city manager over stepped his boundraies,the f\d should have stayed on the scene till the house was safe enough for someone to enter. my house burnt a few years a go the f/d stayed till it was safe it was also a 2 story home built in the late 1900,s but they did not tear it down several days later we were able to retrieve several items in which the whitesells will never be able to do .my heart goes out to the whitesell family may GOD be with you.

By: dee

dee — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 16:17:00 +0000

i was there from the beginning to the end,and the whitesells were treated horribly. the city manager over stepped his boundraies,the fd should have stayed on the scene till the house was safe enough for someone to enter. my house burnt a few years a go the f/d stayed till it was safe it was also a 2 story home built in the late 1900,s but they did not tear it down several days later we were able to retrieve several items in which the whitesells will never be able to do .my heart goes out to the whitesell family may GOD be with you.

By: Gail

Gail — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 06:30:21 +0000

Adam is correct. There are many in this town upset over what has happened but we would never want firefighters or anyone else to risk their lives retrieving items. There is no more altruistic couple in this humble little town ( and I am talking about the KY side, not TN) than the Whitesells and they didn’t deserve to be treated like criminals as they were watching a lifetime of love and memories go up in flames. A fire destroyed my home in the middle of the night when I was a little girl. I know what it is like. Fire totally immolates and destroys, including humans. No one in Fulton wanted anyone at risk. However, there have been several homes to burn in the many years I have lived in this town and the county. To my knowledge, none have ever been pulled down to burn before allowed to “cool” off. There were no other structures at risk; there was no wind. There was utter incompetency on someone’s part to make that call.

By: Gail

Gail — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 06:30:00 +0000

By: Adam

Adam — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 06:20:51 +0000

I believe a lot of citizens are miss understood about some of the anger coming from the citizens over this fire. While most of us are upset that the house was not left standing so eventually later down the road there would be a chance to retrieve possible remaining valuables, the majority of the anger on the situation is situated around the city’s lack of professionalism in this situation, the manor in which they treated the homeowners through out the night, as well as the questionable immediate demolition of the house. To anyone who believes I or the citizens in this city are upset in the firefighters not rescuing any material items in the home please during the fire, please understand that is not the case.

By: Adam

Adam — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 06:20:00 +0000

By: Karen

Karen — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 03:58:38 +0000

I know for a fact, that firefighters went into the residents to retrieve items for the family. After an upper floor roof had already fallen in, and interior walls started lighting back up, they got out of the house. My husband is a firefighter, not for this dept., and I wouldn’t want to take the chance of a roof falling in on him. Fire was trapped between layers of the home. The house was clearly a hazard to the area. The pictures do not show clearly how much of the interior was “involved”. You really had to be there to understand the situation going on and what all really happened. This was a very unfortunate event. Thank God no one was hurt or injured. Life is more precious than material things.
These firefighters do a great job and are extremely under paid.

By: Karen

Karen — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 03:58:00 +0000