Jan. 31, 2023 The grandfather learned he lost his family from a Facebook post from his daughter.
Source Firehouse.com News
Four children and an adult were killed in a mobile home fire rural Tennessee Sunday afternoon.
Dennis Longhurst told reporters he learned on Facebook that his daughter lost her two children, two stepchildren and her husband.
“We were at home last night. About four in the afternoon fixing to go to church and I saw something on Facebook. My daughter put on Facebook that my whole family is killed,” he said.
When he didn’t get much from her on the phone, he tossed things in his vehicle in South Carolina and hit the road for Luttrell. He still can’t understand how they didn’t escape the Sunday afternoon fire.
The children were identified as Briseis Aljumaily, 15, Audrie Cooper-Fortner, 9, Gabriella Aljumaily, 5, and Evie Cooper-Fortner, 5.
He said his daughter was out shopping when the fire occurred.
The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation is investigating.