A late-night knock on the door is usually the kind of thing that makes your stomach drop, but for one Washington County couple it turned into the kind of moment that permanently divides life into a “before” and “after.”
In a FOX6 News Milwaukee report, Darronté Matthews tells the story of Chuck and Corinne Hiller of Trenton, Wisconsin, whose decades-long vintage car collection was gutted in a single fire that tore through a building on their property and destroyed 11 vehicles stored inside.
The fire didn’t just take sheet metal and engines; it erased a personal archive, because Matthews makes clear that these weren’t simply “old cars” lined up like inventory, they were the product of a lifetime of hunting, rescuing, restoring, and remembering – each one attached to a story that Chuck can still tell even now…