SHERBURNE – The Sherburne American Legion will be hosting a goodwill breakfast Saturday for a retired couple who lost their home in a fire about three weeks ago.

From 7 a.m. to noon on Saturday, members of the Sherburne American Legion Post 876 will be collecting donations and offering proceeds from their pancake breakfast to help the family rebuild.

Charles Wilcox and his wife Lisa were injured Aug. 28 after they awoke to the beeping of a detector as smoked filled their bedroom just after 3 a.m. They couple crawled out an emergency window and called 911.

Charles’ sister, Jane Mondore, speaking for the family Monday, said her older brother was treated for severe smoke inhalation and released from the hospital four days after the fire.

She explained Charles ran back into the house with a garden hose in an attempt to save the couple’s possessions and pets, but was overcome by smoke.

When firemen arrived, they treated Lisa for minor smoke inhalation, but Charles was taken by Sherburne Ambulance to Community Memorial Hospital in Hamilton. Later, he was transferred to the intensive care unit at Mary Imogene Bassett Hospital in Cooperstown, where he was later released.

Mondore said Charles is in his mid 70s and is recovering well from the incident, but added that the family was not insured.