911. HAPPENING NOW IN GALAX. INVESTIGATORS BELIEVE AN APARTMENT FIRE THAT LEFT A MAN DEAD WAS AN ACCIDENT. IT BROKE OUT JUST BEFORE 3 A.M. AT THE HARMONY VILLAGE APARTMENTS ON GLENDALE ROAD. SOMEONE CALLED 911 AND TOLD DISPATCHERS SOMEONE COULD BE INSIDE THE BURNING APARTMENT. FIREFIGHTERS ARRIVED TO FIND HEAVY SMOKE COMING FROM AN UPSTAIRS UNIT, BUT WERE UNABLE TO GET INSIDE DUE TO THE HEAT FROM THE FIRE. ONCE CREWS PUT OUT THAT FIRE, THEY FOUND 55 YEAR OLD KENNETH PARNELL DEAD INSIDE. FIREFIGHTERS BELIEVE THE BLAZE WAS CAUSED BY THE USE OF AN OXYGEN DEVICE, AND TWO PEOPLE ARE NOW IN THE HOSPITAL RECOVERING FROM INJURIES IN A CRASH IN GREENSBORO. THIS HAPPENING JUST AFTER 830 THIS MORNING ON I-840 NEAR ELM STREET. GUILFORD COUNTY EMS TELLS US AN ADULT SUFFERED SERIOUS INJURIES AND A JUVENILE HAD MINOR INJURIES. WE ARE TOLD BOTH WERE TAKEN TO THE …
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