COWETA COUNTY, Ga. — Neighbors and businesses are banding together to make sure the survivors of a deadly house fire in Coweta County have a home. They’re renovating an old, abandoned house about a mile from the fire scene on Macedonia Road.
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“I’m just a friend helping a friend,” said Juston Fugate, a co-worker of a man who survived the disaster.
Six people, including three children, were killed in the June 17 fire. Five people – a husband and wife and their three children – survived. The woman who survived inherited the nearby house from her family, but it’s rundown and unfit to live in. Fugate enlisted the help of a local contractor and took to social media in search of volunteers to renovate the house, built in 1973.
“Everybody’s pitching in, donating materials, donating time, labor, crews, and so forth,” Fugate told Channel 2′s Bryan Mims. “That …