SAN ANTONIO – Jonathan Joss, an actor who lives in San Antonio, lost two dogs and a home in a South Side house fire Thursday.
Fire crews responded to the home in the 200 block of Dorsey Drive, near Pleasanton Road, around 1 p.m.
Firefighters were able to knock the flames down but not before it burned the home, a vehicle in the carport and two dogs, Joss told a KSAT crew at the scene.
“This is a house I grew up in. I’m more concerned about my dog that died, but you know what? The good Lord will protect us,” Joss told KSAT. “I don’t know which one is dead yet, man. They won’t let me go in the house.”
Joss said his father built the home for his mother in 1957.
He was eventually able to find one of his dogs that died in the fire.
Joss cried as he held the dog in his arms in front of the burned house.
Fire officials said the cause of the fire is under investigation.
Joss told KSAT he had issues with electricity after the home was vandalized. He had been staying in a hotel to keep warm.
“But the last couple of nights, I want(ed) to come home and take care of my dogs,” he told KSAT. “It’s been really, really cold, man.”
Joss said he left the house to go eat earlier on Thursday and thought he had turned everything off. He said he had been using a propane heater in the home for warmth.
“Mistakes happen, man. And it’s my fault for, I guess, leaving something on,” Joss said. “Or if somebody came in and did something, who knows?”
“I don’t have a job. I don’t have children. I’m missing one more dog… I don’t have a place to stay,” Joss said.
Joss has featured in many television shows and movies, including the voice behind John Redcorn in “King of the Hill” from seasons 2 to 13.
Joss also played Chief Ken Hotate in Parks and Recreation and appeared in the 2010 Coen Brothers’ film “True Grit.”
