The bodies of Bill Jackson and his dog were found Tuesday at their county home.

By Jorge Valencia

The man who died in an overnight fire in North Roanoke County this week was a Green Beret who served three tours of duty in the Vietnam War.

Firefighters found William E. Jackson, better known as “Bill,” and his dog Nakita under the rubble of a house that burned in a heavy blaze early Tuesday morning, according to a Roanoke County Fire & Rescue news release and an obituary in today's Roanoke Times.

By the time firefighters were called, the single-story brick house on Magnolia Road, off Plantation Road, was already engulfed in flames. A man who drove by about 2:15 a.m. called 911 and unsuccessfully tried to enter the house, said department spokeswoman Jennifer Conley Sexton.

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