Giles County family stays positive after Christmas Eve fire

Jimmy McCroskey looks over the damaged remains of his Giles County home Thursday. The home caught fire on Christmas Eve while the family was next door celebrating the holiday. Rhonda McCroskey, who has had four run-ins with cancer, said the family has gone through worse. | Matt Gentry, The Roanoke Times
On Monday night, members of a large Giles County family were eating Christmas Eve dinner when a police officer showed up in the driveway.
June Lawson was hosting the event, but her son-in-law, Jimmy McCroskey, who lives next door, talked to the officer.
“I think you have a house fire,” the officer told McCroskey, he recalled.
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