Mother of Five Loses Lubbock Home to Fast-Spreading Garage Fire
I still keep replaying that moment in my head — the phone ringing, my daughter’s voice on the other end, and those three words you never want to hear: “Mom, the house is on fire.”
I ran. I grabbed whoever I could. I screamed until my voice broke. That panic — the pure, immediate “what do I do now?” — is what everyone who’s been through this knows. Camille Lofton says she was at her breaking point, and you can feel it in her words: “I made sure she was alright after that I screamed as loud as I possibly could.”
This wasn’t a small kitchen smoke or a late-night scare. The fire erupted in the garage near 82nd and Indiana at about 1:30 p.m., and it raced into the house. Camille’s daughter called first — the smoke detector, the only thing between them and something far worse. Camille’s voice fractures when she talks about what burned: decades of family photos, mementos from her late mother, the small, ordinary things that make a house a life…