As flames leaped into the air Wednesday night from Tao’s Auto Service, Lori Lott and her daughter Riley rushed to find her 70-year-old father William.
“You can’t even really notice there is a 3-bedroom home connected to this establishment, obviously when she got here, she started panicking saying where’s my pap. They were like there is nobody to get out, she was like yes there is a home back there,” Lott said.
Thankfully William had gotten himself out when he started seeing smoke coming through his floorboards of his living room.
“He only had enough time to have the clothes on his back. He doesn’t have anything at this point, the poor man doesn’t even have his dentures,” Lott said.
As a Vietnam veteran from a strong military family, he lost his medals and a Purple Heart. Plus all the home videos and pictures of his wife who passed years …