Erin and Ben Napier are recalling the devastating fire that ran through The Heirloom hotel in 2025.
“I don’t know if you want to leave all this in there, but the fire happens,” Ben, 42, said on the Sunday, June 7, episode of “The Heirloom” podcast, revealing there was a chain of events that happened after the blaze. “A close member of the extended family goes into the hospital and nobody really knows what’s going on. Erin’s parents chose to have their dog put down that week, and then Erin’s turning 40.”
Erin and Ben’s Home Town spinoff Home Town: Inn This Together finished its four-episode run in May, following the couple working to transform a historic building in Laurel, Mississippi, into the Heirloom hotel alongside friends Jim and Mallorie Raspberry and Josh Nowell.
In the final episode, viewers watched the August 2025 fire that caused damage and delayed the hotel opening. During the Sunday episode, Erin, 40, went on to recall how Mallorie volunteered to host her 40th birthday party amid the incident.
“And I was like, ‘We are not having the party this weekend. That is not happening.’ And Mallorie said, ‘I need to be with all my people.’” Erin said. “So we had the party, and it was the saddest party in the world. All I wanted for my birthday was to eat dip. So, we ate dip and cried.”
Ben and Erin and their friends recalled how the group rallied around each other at the time.
“When the fire happened, that’s what was kind of nice about your birthday party. The locals understood how hard we had been working, but the public had not — they don’t really know until these episodes have aired how hard we were all working to make this happen,” Josh said. “And so, that was pretty special to have friends and just to be around each other.”
When Erin chimed in, “We all had a little funeral,” Josh quipped, “Yeah, at your 40th birthday party.”
Erin and Ben Napier, stars of HGTV’s Home Town, are giving Us Weekly an exclusive look into the show’s tenth season. “We’re almost finished filming this season, and it’ll start airing in January,” Ben, 42, told Us on November 7. “There are some really cool episodes coming up. We’re going to be doing the maternity […]
The group has since shared they have plans to rebuild, which Jim teased on the Thursday episode.
“While we don’t know exactly what’s next, that doesn’t mean that we’re not thinking about it,” Josh said. “What this has given us, I think, is an opportunity to kind of dream about what’s next. And be thinking about what’s next. It’s not like something that’s not out there. We have a vision and we have goals for our community, for ourselves, for our state, and we continue to want to make it better. So, I think some really cool things are down the pike.”
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