October 19, 2015 - The Shelbyville Volunteer Fire Department (SVFD) and Center Fire Department (CFD) responded to a house fire on Monday morning, October 19, 2015 in East Liberty Community.
SVFD had already been dispatched to a grass fire located in the Oakdale Community on CR 2625 at 7:30am just before they were dispatched to the house fire at 7:45am. This required CFD be dispatched to assist with both fires.
While en-route to the house fire, one VFD truck was sent to the grass fire and the other went to support the SVFD truck in East Liberty. When the departments arrived at the location of the house owned by Percy Ratcliff, 2.8 miles down CR 2569, the house was already burned to the ground and appeared to have been burning for a long time.
Deep East Texas Electric Co-op was dispatched to the scene and disconnected any power lines leading to the home. The cause of the fire not able to be determined at the time all parties were at the scene. The grass fire on CR 2625 was quickly extinguished.
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