{"id":6232,"date":"2018-08-24T15:36:31","date_gmt":"2018-08-24T19:36:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thegeorgiasun.com\/?p=6232"},"modified":"2023-09-24T15:36:15","modified_gmt":"2023-09-24T19:36:15","slug":"walton-county-man-dies-trying-to-rescue-pets-from-house-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/?p=6232","title":{"rendered":"Walton County man dies trying to rescue pets from house fire"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A 58-year-old who escaped a mobile home fire in Social Circle succumbed to the same fire after he re-entered the home to retrieve several pet dogs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The blaze killed Adam Rogers, who was awakened by the smell of smoke at about 2:30 a.m. Friday. According to insurance dept. officials, Rogers alerted the other occupants of the house. All three men exited the home, but Rogers went back for their pets. When Rogers didn&#8217;t come back out, the other two occupants went in after him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rogers was air lifted to the Grady Burn Center in <a class=\"wpil_keyword_link\" href=\"\/city\/Atlanta\"   title=\"Atlanta\" data-wpil-keyword-link=\"linked\">Atlanta<\/a> where he later died. His two roommates survived the blaze, but sustained minor burns to their hands and feet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;My investigator determined that the cause of the fire was the result of unattended stovetop cooking,&#8221; Insurance and Safety Fire Commissioner Ralph Hudgens said. &#8220;The blaze destroyed the late model mobile home, and several dogs perished in the fire.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to Hudgens&#8217; office, fire has claimed the lives of 63 Georgians so far in 2018.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 58-year-old who escaped a mobile home fire in Social Circle succumbed to the same fire after he re-entered the home to retrieve several pet dogs. The blaze killed Adam Rogers, who was awakened by the smell of smoke at about 2:30 a.m. Friday. According to insurance dept. officials, Rogers alerted the other occupants of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_show_updated_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6232"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6232\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}