Woman Killed in Lee County Mobile Home Blaze, Investigation Underway
I still remember reading about the fire in Lee County and feeling a pit in my stomach. On a Tuesday afternoon, a 34-year-old woman, Kasey Nichole Hartley, lost her life when a fire broke out in her mobile home on Lee Road 252, in the Beulah community.
Deputies received the 911 call at 4:56 p.m.—the caller feared that Kasey and her small dog were trapped inside.
When the Beulah Fire Department and deputies arrived, thick black smoke was pouring from one end of the single-wide home. Firefighters did everything they could—they pulled Kasey from the house and performed life-saving measures—but tragically, she didn’t make it…