A Boynton Beach couple, who spent five decades in the same home, say they are now facing homelessness after a fire tore through their house earlier this year.
James and Mammie Wright have lived in their Boynton Beach home since 1974. But on April 27, a fire swept through the property, leaving behind heavy smoke damage, a collapsed roof, and a lifetime of memories reduced to ashes.
“I was in the bathroom washing up and I smelled smoke,” said Mammie Wright. “I told my husband I smell something burning. I’m standing there and seeing the smoke go around my utility door.”
Within hours, the couple’s home was unlivable. The Boynton Beach Fire Department said the cause of the fire remains undetermined, but inspectors declared the structure uninhabitable…