Hall County Fire Marshal Scott Cagle says the dog began barking about 2:30 as smoke filled the home of Harold Morris and his family at 3411 Cook Road. Cagle says there were apparently no working smoke alarms in the 3,000 square foot house.
He says the fire started outside the house apparently from discarded charcoal embers. Cagle said Mr. Morris had been grilling on the deck about 8:00 Sunday night and said some hot charcoal had dropped through some cracks in the deck onto the ground below but that he put some water on them and thought he had "put it all the way out but apparently he did not" because that's where the fire started.
Cagle says the flames climbed the outside wall of the house and got into the attic and quickly became a roaring fire.
Damage to the $275,000 house was placed at $115,000.
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