‘The house is gone’: Merkel family of 6 loses everything in house fire

‘The house is gone’: Merkel family of 6 loses everything in house fire

MERKEL, Texas (KTAB/KRBC) - A Merkel couple and their four children were left with just the clothes on their backs and a few personal items that were salvageable from a fire that completely devastated their home early Sunday morning. It took the Tye Volunteer Fire Department (VFD), and other responding fire crews, nearly three hours to extinguish the fire that started in the kitchen. House fire north of Tye prompts multiple agency response…