Neighbor remembers good friend killed in Lapeer County home hearth
Zola Rogers is remembered fondly by the individuals who knew her. Rogers died when a Lapeer County cellular residence caught hearth Monday.
DRYDEN TOWNSHIP, Mich. (FOX 2) – One of many 4 individuals who died Monday in a Lapeer County cellular residence hearth is being remembered for the type particular person she was in her group.
Zola Rogers, her granddaughter, and her two teenage great-grandchildren died within the Dryden Township hearth.
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“There was a really loud explosion, I heard it at 5 or so within the morning. It shook my home. I need and regarded out on my home windows, and once I bought over there the home was simply blazing,” Sue Putnam mentioned. “It’s so arduous to imagine something like that will occur. I’ve by no means seen a home go up so quick in my life.”
Putnam mentioned Rogers was her good friend.
“I actually don’t know what to say; it’s simply sinking in that this occurred,” she mentioned. “She was a great girl. She had a coronary heart of gold. She liked her household.”
She described Rogers as a good friend anybody can be fortunate to have.
“Zola was like form of the watchdog across the group. She was at all times taking a look at folks, being good to them,” she mentioned.
A cross and flowers are subsequent to what’s left of the house in remembrance of the lives misplaced.
“It was good of individuals to care and try this,” Putnam mentioned.
Putnam and different neighbors mentioned investigators had been on the scene once more Tuesday as they attempt to piece collectively what occurred.