Georgia man returns to burning house to save cherished crate of beer

A beer-loving resident in Georgia was able to drown his sorrows when his house burned down after he returned to the blaze to save a crate of lager.
Walter Serpit managed to escape from the fire unharmed, with the rest of his family, as flames engulfed the property.

But he then walked back into the burning property to retrieve his most prized possession – a case of Bud Light from the fridge.

Coverage you can count on: Walter Serpit speaks to the media (Picture: YouTube / WTVM)

Mr Serpit, who is disabled and walks with a cane, said he was lucky not to die in the house fire last Thursday.
‘I told them to get the kids out and everything, and me myself, being an alcoholic, I was trying to get my beer out,’ Mr Serpit told Columbus news station WTVM.
‘I went back into the house like a dummy and the door shut on me because of this back draft. It was about to kill me.’
A new water heater is suspected to have caused the blaze.