VIDEO: In the minutes after the Marshall Fire started, people tried desperately to get hold of it.
“And there was a firestorm,” said Somerset McCarty, who operates a Christmas tree lighting business with a warehouse in Marshall.
It started for him when he was enroute to a store and got a text from an employee that read simply, “Fire.” There had been no time to elaborate.
He was back within minutes of the start of the fire, and they got to work. The woman who texted from his office hurriedly helped tracked down keys to company trucks out back that needed to be moved. Video he recorded to a Facebook Live shows Somerset and others helping.
He and a worker picked up shovels and put out hot spots.