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Brooks Blanton

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As seen in: WJBK-TV (Detroit, MI), WZZM-TV (Grand Rapids, MI), WXMI-TV (Grand Rapids, MI), WCCB-TV (Charlotte, NC)
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Family responding well to treatment weeks after fire that killed 7-year-old

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By Brooks Blanton Verified
| WXMI-TV (Grand Rapids, MI) Verified
BURLINGTON TOWNSHIP, Mich. — A family is recovering from severe burns in a fire that killed a 7-year old-boy a few weeks ago in Calhoun County. Family members tell FOX 17 that Jackie and Harley Gibson are awake, alert and responding well to treatment. In fact, Jackie Gibson will be transferred from ICU in Bronson Kalamazoo to Battle Creek and can start seeing visitors on Saturday. Their daughter, Shayan Gibson, 6, is well enough to go back to school on Monday.
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Parents ‘fighting for their life’ after fire killed 7-year-old boy

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By Brooks Blanton Verified
| WXMI-TV (Grand Rapids, MI) Verified
BURLINGTON TOWNSHIP, Mich. — A West Michigan community is rallying around a family devastated by a fire that killed a 7-year-old Calhoun County boy and left his parents severely burned in a Kalamazoo hospital. Harley Gibson, 62, and his wife Jackie, 48, have been medically sedated since the fire completely destroyed their home in the early morning hours on Oct. 13 and do not yet know that their little boy, Jack, died in the fire.
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