‘We’re going to get out of this house’
Photo courtesy of Kelly Tysinger
“We’re ready to get back,” said Shane Tysinger, sitting with his wife, Kelly, their children Carter and Addison, and the family’s new dog, Rosie, on the deck of their rebuilt home on Strawberry Road in Summerfield.
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Fall 2020
After escaping from their burning house, a Summerfield family grappled with losses, nightmares and insurance claims by CHRIS BURRITT SUMMERFIELD – Shane and Kelly Tysinger are preparing to return to their rebuilt home on Strawberry Road, almost 10 months after a fire and smoke destroyed their original home and most of their belongings. Shortly after midnight last Dec. 12, the couple awoke to the loud beeping of a smoke detector. They quickly roused their children, Addison and Carter, and exited the smoke-filled house into the freezing darkness. The family shivered as sirens and flashing lights of fire trucks approached. It was the start of an ordeal that, like the scent of smoke lingering in Shane’s guitar case, isn’t over, even though the restoration of
the Tysingers’ brick house is nearly complete.
“I’m anticipating, but I just don’t want to get too excited,” Kelly said one Saturday morning in September while sitting with Shane in the backyard of their home overlooking Lake Brandt. They hope to move back in within the next few weeks. Summerfield Fire Chief Chris Johnson, whose team was the first to arrive on the scene of the fire, said the smoke detector in the Tysingers’ house may have saved the family’s lives. Kelly said they also had discussed a fire escape plan, another critical precaution recommended by Johnson and his northwest Guilford
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