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Tubac family overwhelmed by outpouring after fire

By Dan Shearer and Kathleen Vandervoet / Green Valley News

TUBAC, AZ - Two days after a fire roared through every room of his Tubac home, Jim Lamb went back inside and found exactly what he thought he would: "It's totally gone, totally gone."

The fire sent Lamb, his wife, Ann, and sister-in-law Barbara Hale into the street with just the clothes on their backs.

Lamb calls his dog, Annie, the hero.

"I heard her barking and kind of growling," he said. "She stirred me to get up, and sure enough, the house was full of smoke."

Lamb, a retired reporter with the Green Valley News, said he opened the door to a hall closet that housed the air conditioning/heating unit and flames shot out. Firefighters from Tubac and Green Valley fire districts responded shortly before 7 a.m. to the house in the Tubac Valley Vistas subdivision.

Read more on the Green Valley News website at: http://www.gvnews.com/news/tubac-family-overwhelmed-by-outpouring-after-fire/article_4166ada2-46f7-11e1-b83f-001871e3ce6c.html

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