Fire destroys Skyline Drive home
The home at 38 Skyline Drive caught fire shortly after midnight Monday night.
The fire destroyed the home. One of the home’s residents, Chelsie Lopez, said she was awake when the fire started.
“As soon as I heard the pop and saw the electric go out,” she said, “I ran to the back.”
Lopez said she went to the sound’s source: the room where her two boys, Jessie Robertson, 6, and Slater Rice, 1, were sleeping. This room, she said, also contained the house’s breaker box, which was sparking.
Lopez said she told her boys
to stay under the carport and off the street while she
ran back into the house to get her trio of girls, Lillie Robertson, 4, Clover Robinson, 3 and 5-month-old Daisie Rice.
According to the dispatch report, Bella Vista received the call at 12:23
a.m., the first emergency vehicle left at 12:25 a.m. and it arrived at 12:32 a.m.
Bella Vista Fire Department Battalion Chief Jimmy Johnson said that, while an investigation has
not yet been performed, he saw no evidence to contradict Lopez’s narrative.
It’s important, he said, for residents to be aware of their surroundings. In this case, he said, Lopez was.