Fire heavily damages family’s lifetime home

Published 12:00 am Thursday, August 28, 2003

[8/28/03]Smoke and heat damaged a home Wednesday in which a Vicksburg woman and her family had lived all their lives.

Relatives of Stephanie Scott, 39, said she grew up in the home at Mississippi 27 and Gertrude Lane.

After returning home to find Culkin, Northeast and Fisher Ferry volunteer firefighters working in and around her home, Scott became ill and was taken to River Region Medical Center. A hospital spokesman said Scott was treated and released.

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Kelly Worthy, Warren County Volunteer Fire Coordinator, said the fire, reported at 12:21 p.m., appeared to have started in the living room but, because doors and windows were closed, the fire “smoldered itself out.”

“It’s a good tight house,” Worthy said.

Smoke and fire damage was throughout the house but the most severe damage was in the living room.

Scott’s son, Matthew Scott, 16, a junior at Warren Central High School, said he’d lived in the house since he was born.

Stephanie Scott works at Wal-Mart SuperCenter and Unique Impressions, a Washington Street restaurant. She picked Matthew Scott up from school to help him find a job, her husband, James Scott, said.

At the time of the fire, Jimmy Scott, 18, the Scott’s other son, was at Warren Central, where he is a senior.

No one was injured in the fire.