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Amelia McGough sends thank you to AC Fire Dept., others

House fire occurred as family was returning to Columbia after several years away. A number of individuals, businesses, and groups have stepped in to help the McGough's get back on their feet.
Related: Comments re article 91530 AC Fire Department battles fire but house is total loss

By Amelia McGough

Just want to say "thank you" to the fire department; we were at the Best Western after a long drive from Texas, planning to move in the next day, which is why you couldn't find us.

We had just returned home after several years away, looking forward so much to moving into the house again. We drove up Saturday morning to find it still smouldering.



Red Cross will not help since we were not living in the house when the lightning hit, so we are making it one day at a time.

Jeffries, Betty's, and several others have been kind enough to work with us and help out.

Columbia is home for us and we are glad to be home, despite the circumstances.

We need help with plumbing and electric -- everything was on the house [that burned] and will have to be re-routed.

John is in end stage cardiomyopathy and can't do it anymore.

Also thanks so much to Sugarfoot Rescue for taking our dogs until we can get a pen or fence up, Best Western for the reduced rate, and 3-Trees Church for bringing us some emergency groceries and another night's stay. Your kindness overwhelms us and we are deeply grateful. - Amelia McGough


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Ashes still smouldering from Fri 7 Jul Fire at McGough Home



2017-07-10 - Gradyville, Adair County, KY - Photo by Ed Waggener, ColumbiaMagazine.com photo(c).
Pentecostal ministers John & Amy McGough are finding themselves in a pretty tight place after they came home from Texas to find, when they first returned to Gradyville, that their two-and-one-half story home, one of Gradyville's oldest, had burned to the ground. Ashes still smouldered Monday afternoon, July 10, 2017, as they sorted out what to do, using a van and a one room apartment they own over the old Janes warehouse adjacent to what had been their house. At present, they say, it doesn't look like their insurance was in force, funds from some agencies are cut off because, they said, at the time of the fire, they were not actually living in the house. But their faith remains firm.

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Ministers McGough having to make do with one room apartment



2017-07-10 - Gradyville, Adair County, KY - Photo by Ed Waggener, ColumbiaMagazine.com photo(c).
For tonight, John and Amy McGough were planning to stay in the upstairs apartment over the old Janes Feed Warehouse. It's one room - for five people -- has plumbing which is turned off, and power, also not turned on. That will all have to happen tomorrow, Tuesday, July 11, 2017 - or later if the paperwork and payments can't be done on time. Once, Mrs. McGough says, John could have done all the repairs needed, but says that his recent heart attacks have rendered him unable to do so now.

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