reported the home was owned by Hamlin\u2019s parents<\/a>, according to sources.<\/p>\nThe blaze started sometime around 6 p.m. ET, with firefighters responding shortly after. WSOC reported that \u201cthere were around 10 different fire departments fighting the blaze.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWell this house was about 40-45% involved when we got here. Of course where we are located there are no hydrants, so all the water had to be trucked in and there were times we would run out of water and we had to wait for more water to get here,\u201d chief David Toomey with the Lucia-Riverbend Fire Department told WSOC. \u201cWe had to call for more, additional tankers throughout the county.\u201d<\/p>\n
The fire was under control about two hours after officials first responded. No details have yet been provided on a potential cause for the fire.<\/p>\n
The blaze at Denny Hamlin\u2019s parents\u2019 residence occurred in Stanley, N.C. Pictures provided by the Lucia-Riverbend Fire Department showed flames reaching high into the sky, with nearly a half dozen emergency vehicles parked on the roadway outside the house.<\/p>\n
\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tDenny Hamlin wins No. 60 for father<\/p>\n
It\u2019s been an eventful year for Denny Hamlin, both on the track and off it. In addition to being a party to the lengthy lawsuit from 23XI and Frontrow Motorsports against NASCAR, Hamlin also celebrated his 60th career win on the track.<\/p>\n
His ailing father was able to see it, too. After winning at Las Vegas, Hamlin talked about his family, their sacrifices, and why he shed so many tears late in the race. The Joe Gibbs Racing driver was asked about his father\u2019s health in the post-race presser.<\/p>\n
\u201cYeah, just not doing well, not feeling well. He\u2019s the one that got me into racing,\u201d Denny Hamlin said<\/a>. \u201cJust took me to a racetrack when I was five. Then made all the sacrifices financially to keep me going. Sold everything they had. We almost lost our house a couple times. Just tried to keep it all going. So, I\u2019m glad he was able to see 60. That was super important to me.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Further updates have emerged on a house fire on Sunday evening at a residence reportedly owned by NASCAR…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":374617,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[446],"tags":[49,48,634,82],"class_list":["post-374616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nascar","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nascar","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374616","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=374616"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374616\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/374617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=374616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=374616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=374616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}