Former WFAA-TV reporter Matt Quinn and his wife Cathy perished Thursday when fire swept through their property in rural Montague County, according to a family member. Cathy’s son, Chris, suffered burns and was being treated Friday at the Parkland Memorial Hospital burn unit in Dallas. Hospital officials said he is in fair condition. Matt Quinn began his duties at WFAA in 1980 after working for ABC News. He presented a regular feature segment called “Matt Quinn’s Chronicles.” Former Dallas Morning News TV critic Ed Bark called him a “thoughtful reporter of mood pieces” in a 1988 article.

CNN) — A former reporter for WFAA-TV and his wife were killed when fire swept through their property in rural Montague County, Texas, a family member told the station Friday.

The deaths of Matt and Cathy Quinn are the first known fatalities in the fires that scorched parts of Texas and Oklahoma Thursday.

Cathy’s son, Chris, suffered burns and was being treated Friday at the Parkland Memorial Hospital burn unit in Dallas, the station, a CNN affiliate, said on its Web site. He was reported in fair condition.

Matt Quinn began working at WFAA in 1980, presenting a regular feature called “Matt Quinn’s Chronicles.”