COLBERT, Ga. --
A fire that touched off a gunpowder blast has killed a postal carrier and her brother in the Madison County town of Colbert.
Coroner Michelle Cleveland said 42-year-old Lisa Shubert and her 39-year-old brother, Terry Cotton, got trapped by the fire in a shed behind the mobile home Shubert rented.
Colbert and Hull volunteer firefighters, who responded shortly after 1 a .m. Sunday, pulled both victims from the flames, but resuscitation efforts failed.
Chief sheriff's investigator Jimmy Patton said Shubert's boyfriend, 39-year-old Jerry Scott Payne, escaped the building but was burned over 60 percent of his body. He was hospitalized in Atlanta.
Authorities said the man who once owned the property used the shed for a gun shop.
