Fire leveled the Kevin Wease residence early Monday on Annamoriah Creek on the
Joker-Hur Road about two miles from State Route 5. Wease and his wife went
Christmas shopping in Parkersburg.
Wease's sons, Mike and Larry, escaped from the burning structure shoeless and
unharmed. Mike Wease said the fire started near a furnace.
Flames shot fifty feet into the air, fully engulfed before the Grantsville Volunteer Fire
Department arrived. Nothing was saved. The fire was reported at 1:28 a.m.
The Wease homestead was a well-known old family home on the creek, and had been
renovated several times over the years.
Two trucks and ten firemen doused water on the blaze, with none of the nearby
outbuildings catching on fire. Calhoun EMS also responded to the scene.
Another fire Sunday destroyed a cabin belonging to Buster Parsons at the head of
Clipstine near the Gilmer County line. Parsons lost his dog in the blaze.
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