Published 11:58 am Friday, July 31, 2026 When the first two officers with the Milledgeville Police Department arrived at a two-story house fire on the 1300 block of Oconee Street on Monday morning, they heard a man screaming. Ray Douglas’s screams came from the direction of the backyard of the residence where fire had engulfed both the upstairs and bottom floors of the home. The two police officers, Lt. J.D. Allen and Officer Eldin Elansary, immediately went to the backyard and found that Ray had made it safely out of the home. But the man told the police officers he was unable to remove a woman who had gotten trapped. The woman was later identified as Zena Cambell, according to an incident report obtained from the police department by The Union-Recorder. “Cambell had fallen just inside the entrance of the back door and had become wedged between the door and washer/dryer with her left arm trapped under her body,” Allen said in the report. Because the elderly woman, who was getting around using a walker, had recently experienced some health issues, she was unable to free herself, Allen said. “Due to heat being emitted from inside of the residence, we were unable to make entry and had to attempt to free Cambell from the threshold of the entry,” Allen said. “When Officer Jacob Roberts arrived, the three of us were able to pull Cambell free and assist her down the stairs of the back entrance.” Two other police officers, Raymond Borders and William Roselli, showed up. Roselli…
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