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Fire destroys huge structure in the Haskinsville Community Firemen from three counties - five departments control fire, but only after it destroys the residence on a Shangri-La, the dream retirement home of Dr. Muthrine Walker-Anderson, who built the house after a successful career in marketing with AT&T. Firemen from Green County, Adair County, Summersville, Campbellsville/Taylor County, and Breeding on the scene for approximately 5 hours as fire runs it course Click on headline for complete story with photo(s) By Ed Waggener, with Larry Smith A ColumbiaMagazine.com/99.9 FM The Big Dawg story A huge structure fire destroyed a residence which the owner described as her dream house today, Friday, September 6, 2013, on Caldwell Road in the Haskinsville Community of southern Green County not far from the Adair and Taylor County borders. Firefighters from five departments responded. The first, the Green County Fire Department answered to a call at 12:21pmCT, according to Captain Nick Cheatham, who headed the effort. The fire was so big, he said, that it could be seen from the Nally & Gibson Rock quarry on KY 61 south of Greensburg, as they headed for the blaze. "We knew it was big," he said, "and called for the Adair Fire Department, because we knew they could get there quickest." Before the afternoon was over, units from Summersville, Campbellsville, and the Breeding Fire Department were also on the scene. But the blaze was overpowering, and the most they could do was contain it with the pumper and tanker trucks on the scene. The house belongs to Dr. Muthrine Walker-Anderson, who was helping a neighbor, who is blind after he had returned from a doctor visit when the fire started. Another member of the household she was visiting asked Dr. Walker if she were burning trash at home. She wasn't she said, and rushed over, found the house in flames, and made the call to 911. The house she said, was her dream retirement home. It's situated down picturesque Caldwell Road, off Haskinsville Road. Caldwell Road is narrow, 14 foot wide blacktopped lane, barely wide enough for two small cars to pass. It crosses a small creek to the a circular drive in front of the massive residence, and this afternoon is was queued almost its length with firefighting apparatuses waiting turns with tankers and pumpers to douse the flames. The house, Dr. Walker said, had 2,000 sq. ft. on each floor - two above ground and with a finished basement of the same size. She had built it on the 110 acre, mostly wooded tract, as her retirement home. She is a native of Louisiana, who had a career in marketing with AT&T, and came to the area with her then husband. It was perfect she said, as the fire finished its course, "It's secluded, it's quiet, there are deer and other wildlife, and often, on walks, all you can hear are the birds singing and see an occasional rabbit hopping across the lawn." Still it was a devastating loss. All here keepsakes, all her personal belongings went up in flames, she said. The loss was such that she clung to a single page from a school yearbook one of the firemen brought her. And occasionally, she hugged and talked with her children, Daymion and Diane Walker, and petted and held the three dogs - China, India, and Sam. She said she was still in a daze, but that things would be alright. Her church, Pleasant Hill Missionary Baptist on Haskinsville Road, Greensburg, is a refuge, and there was an outpouring of offers of help for the evening from her neighbors in the close knit community. There would be a place to spend the night, she said. All the neighbors had offered that, and she had taken one up to stay with the children and the dogs in his bed and breakfast. Of course she'll build back, she said. "This is home. How could I not?" Larry Smith will have an official fire report later. At this writing, the cause of the fire had not been determined. - Ed Waggener & Larry Smith This story was posted on 2013-09-06 19:40:07
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