GRIMES CO. HOME DEEMED A TOTAL LOSS AFTER SATURDAY NIGHT FIRE

  

Update: A late Saturday night house fire destroyed a Grimes County home.

The fire was reported around 6:50 p.m. at a home on Bob Mathews Street in Bedias.  The house was fully engulfed, at the time of the emergency call.

The Bedias, Shiro, and Iola Volunteer Fire Departments were called out to assist.  A Bedias VFD truck got stuck in mud on its way to the fire.

No one was in the home, at the time of the fire.  Bedias Fire Chief Kenny Tamplin said the residents, a single mother and her three daughters, were roughly an hour away from the home when they were notified.

The house was said to be a total loss.  Tamplin said the cause of fire is still under investigation.

Original Story: A late Saturday night house fire destroyed a Grimes County home.

The fire was reported around 7 p.m. at a home on Bob Mathews Street in Bedias.  Multiple agencies were called out to assist, but a Bedias Volunteer Fire Department truck got stuck in mud on its way to the fire.

No one was in the home, at the time of the fire.  A neighbor said a single mother and her three children lived there.

Crews have extinguished the fire, and are no longer at the scene.  The cause of the fire is unknown, at this time.