Georgia Home Fire Leaves Teacher Dead, Family Hospitalized
I still can’t shake the image of that quiet Sunday morning in Walker County turning into a nightmare. A fire tore through the home of John Millican III, a beloved teacher and coach at LaFayette High School, leaving him dead and seriously injuring his wife, Heather, and their two young children.
Reading about families facing such sudden loss always hits differently—you realize how fragile our sense of safety at home really is.
According to Walker County Fire Marshal Scott Forrest, crews were called around 7:38 a.m. to reports of smoke at 127 Ridgewood Circle near Chickamauga. Firefighters arrived nine minutes later to flames engulfing the front of the house…