Mauldin man houses fire victims

A tree fell on a Mauldin house with a loud boom. It was about 7 a.m. Friday morning during a storm. Roger Cannon knew that something was bad wrong. At once, he ordered everyone out of the house in a hurry.

Cannon’s two sons fled pronto.

Next flames shot up. Soon the house was engulfed by fire.

His wife Terez was at work. The oldest son Kamari, the  footballer, could deal with the trauma. Not so much for Jace a four-year-old. He has autism. Jace has, in fact, been reeling from loosing their home. It’s the only home he’s ever known. His eating pattern has been disrupted.

When Gunter Langston, Kamari’s former football coach, heard from a social media post by Terez about the catastrophic fire lost, he sprang into action. Langston took the distressed family of four into his home. Langston says “love is a verb.  It’s an action word.”

“Football teams often talk about their being a family,” says Kamari. But this is reality; not just words like rah-rah-rah in the heat of a football game.

The family has lived in the home for 17 years.

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