A yellow smiley-face flag waves in the wind in the middle of Sal Rossi’s yard in Donelson — a symbol neighbors say captured the spirit of the man they lost last week in a deadly house fire.
Rossi, 74, died in the fire on Hunters Hill Road, which investigators are treating as accidental. His brother-in-law had been trying to start a fire on the screened-in porch to stay warm when the flames spread to the home. The brother-in-law was treated for minor injuries.
In the wake of the tragedy, neighbors made the decision to turn the flag upside down in honor of Rossi — just as he had done years earlier when his wife, Candy, died after a battle with breast cancer…