Newnan firefighter and family who lost brand new home to tornado thankful for community support

  • Source: WXIA-TV NBC 11 Atlanta
  • Published: 03/30/2021 09:58 PM

Rebecca Scott and her husband, Jason, moved into their brand new build home on Smokey Road just one month ago. On March 25, Jason was working his 24-hour shift as a Newnan firefighter. Rebecca went to bed on the second floor and was awakened a couple of hours later to lightning. "We live in a very wooded area, so its normally dark at night, and when I woke up I saw how bright it was," she recalled. "It was constant lightning. It was yellow and green outside. Not normally how it looks." She then grabbed their 1-year-old daughter and moved the a bedroom on the first floor for safety. Meanwhile, her husband is on hour 15 of his shift when radios in his fire station start to go off. "Our radio started going crazy ... tornado hit here, tornado hit here, people trapped," he recounted. "Just nonstop. Cars flipped. It just started going crazy." His mind immediately went to his family. Rebecca was not immediately able to get ahold of Jason after the tornado.



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