Deputies report burned body found after Love County grass fire call

Love County sheriff's deputies reported finding the burned body of a man after answering a grass fire call near Highway 32 in the Falconhead and Burneyville area, according to the Love County Sheriff's Office. The Oklahoma county sits directly north of Cooke County, which places the reported scene just across the state line from Gainesville-area readers.

The account came from the agency itself, published on the Love County Sheriff's Office Facebook page. As the office described it, deputies went out on a report of a grass fire and a male body was found burned at the scene. The office pointed to a highway and two communities as its reference points rather than giving an address.

The man is not named in that public account, and the Sheriff's Office did not give a cause of death in the public account. The office did not state whether the fire and the body are connected, and its posting mentions no arrest. Beyond describing the body as male and burned, the agency offered no physical description and no estimate of how long the body had been at the location.

Details about the response itself are also absent. The Sheriff's Office did not give a time for the call or say how large the fire was. No fire department is named as working the scene alongside deputies, and the agency did not say who reported the fire.

The area described matches state road records. The Oklahoma Department of Transportation's official highway map for Love County shows State Highway 96 running to a junction with State Highway 32 in that part of the county, the same general area the Sheriff's Office named. That map is a reference for road numbering and carries no information about the incident.

Love County is directly north of Cooke County, across the Oklahoma-Texas line. Law enforcement and emergency coverage along that line can involve agencies and audiences in both states. The Sheriff's Office maintains a website listing contact information for the agency in addition to the Facebook page where it posts case information.

GvilleTX has not independently verified the condition of the body or the sequence of events at the scene. What is reported here rests on the Sheriff's Office's own public statement and on the state highway map, not on a released incident report or a court filing.

Any identification of the man, or any official account of how he died, would come from the Love County Sheriff's Office or another agency of record. The Sheriff's Office Facebook post is the public account cited in this report.