Officials in North Carolina said one person is dead and another is being treated for life-threatening injuries after a fire at a home owned by the parents of NASCAR driver Denny Hamlin on Sunday. <\/p>\n
According to WSOC-TV,<\/a> the fire in Stanley, N.C. drew nearly a dozen different departments in response. <\/p>\n Between 40% to 45% of the home was already burning by the time responders arrived.<\/p>\n Though officials have not identified the names of the victims, neighbors said Denny and Mary Lou Hamlin, the driver\u2019s parents, live in the four-bedroom, three-bath home. <\/p>\n Two people were discovered outside the home when crews arrived and were taken to the hospital. <\/p>\n Chief David Toomey of the Lucia Riverbend Fire Department <\/a>said firefighters were able to save some valuables from the scene. <\/p>\n \u201cThey had some really expensive cars in the garage and some racing memorabilia and stuff, so all that was saved,\u201d Toomey told The Athletic<\/a> at the scene. \u201cWe were able to save all that and get it out so it wasn\u2019t damaged.\u201d<\/p>\n The fire is under investigation. <\/p>\n In a message shared on social media, the department asked the public to keep the affected family and first responders in their thoughts.<\/p>\n The 45-year-old driver earned his 60th Cup Series victory earlier this year and narrowly missed securing his first championship in November after late-race developments resulted in Kyle Larson winning the season finale, according to Yahoo News<\/a>. <\/p>\n The fire comes 10 days after a deadly plane crash at Statesville Regional Airport that killed former NASCAR driver Greg Biffle <\/a>and six others, including an Auburn University student and his father.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Officials in North Carolina said one person is dead and another is being treated for life-threatening injuries after…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":376018,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[446],"tags":[49,48,634,82],"class_list":["post-376017","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\/376017","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=376017"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376017\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/376018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=376017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=376017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=376017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}