Child who survived deadly Kentucky fire recuperating

A girl who escaped a western Kentucky house fire that killed her mother and eight siblings is communicating with her hospital nurses.

Pastor Tim Burden said today that 11-year-old Kylie Watson has written ?I?m hungry? on a dry erase board.

Burden says Kylie?s father, Chad Watson, is also making progress at Vanderbilt University Medical Center.

Eight of Chad Watson?s children and his wife, Nikki, died in a house fire in rural Muhlenberg County early Thursday morning. Investigators say a combustible material made contact with a baseboard heater.

Burden, a close friend of the family and the pastor at Calvary Baptist Church in Central City, says the church is holding a candlelight vigil Friday evening.

The father and daughter were both listed in critical condition this morning.