BATON ROUGE — A Baton Rouge family of seven is picking up the pieces after a fire tore through their home Tuesday afternoon, though they are grateful the outcome wasn’t worse after firefighters rescued their two dogs from inside.
Lynwood Spell, a teacher at Liberty Magnet, said he had taken his children to school and was getting ready to head to work when he received an unexpected phone call from a neighbor saying his home on Bellfort Drive was burning.
“I came home immediately, and when I got here, just was devastated to see how bad our home and the fire and what had taken place,” Spell said…