Posted on July 22, 2010. Submitted by Amy Maxwell. HAMILTON CO., TN- Over 150 emergency service personnel work for 4 hours to free a 19 year old constructor worker who was buried in a trench at 9508 Heathwood Drive (Ooltewah area). According to contractors from Allied Civil Contracting, at 8:30 pm they made a 9-1-1 [...]
Posted on July 19th, 2010. KNOXVILLE, TN- Eight young adults have the quick thinking of an off-duty Knoxville firefighter and a little luck to thank for saving them from a fire Sunday morning. The fire involved two historic Victorian houses in the 400 block of 11th Street in Fort Sanders next to Fort Kid and the [...]
Posted on July 14th, 2010. HAMILTON COUNTY, TN: At about 8:40 AM, Tuesday, July 13, 2010, the Tri-Community Volunteer Fire Department responded to a report of a possible residential structure fire at 8815 Point South Lane. Engine 1245 arrived on the scene minutes later and reported a single story wood frame house about 50 percent [...]
HAMILTON COUNTY, TN- January 12, 2010. Submitted by Amy Maxwell. At 8:06 pm, 9-1-1 dispatcher receives a call from a Alarm System Company reporting heavy smoke detected at Dallas Bay Baptist Church and the adjacent Youth Building (8305 Daisy Dallas Road) Dallas Bay Volunteer Fire Department responded and arrived on the scene within a minute [...]
SULLIVAN COUNTY, TN- January 11th, 2010. Submitted by Matthew Alley. Sullivan West, Bloomingdale, and Warriors Path firefighters responded to the 1700 block of Oaklawn Street on Monday for a reported working structure fire. Initial reports advised responding units that there was heavy fire from the bottom floor of the structure. Firefighters made a quick knockdown [...]
JOHNSON CITY, TN- January 11th, 2010. There was little rest for Johnson City firefighters Monday night with simultaneous and back-to-back fire calls in freezing weather — including one house fire that claimed three family pets. The first fire call of the evening went out at 6:23 p.m. and sent firefighters to 1503 E. Myrtle Ave. where [...]
HAMILTON COUNTY- January 11th, 2010. Submitted by Amy Maxwell. At 10:00 pm, a home owner calls 9-1-1 reporting his house was on fire at 320 Shadow Parkway (Mountain Shadows Subdivision). Tri-Community Volunteer Fire Department arrived on the scene reporting 50 percent of the house was fully involved with fire. According to Assistant Chief, Danny Hague, [...]
CHATTANOOGA, TN- Posted on January 6, 2010. A Chattanooga firefighter was taken to the hospital after being injured in a house fire late Monday night. The fire started shortly after 11:00 p.m. Monday at 3515 Battery Drive. Battalion Chief Mike Knox said flames were visible at the rear of the house when the first firefighters [...]
DAYTON, TN- Posted on January 6th, 2010. Flames ripped through one of downtown Dayton’s older homes early Monday evening. No one was injured in the blaze, though officials have figured it to be a total loss. By the time Dayton firefighters were called onto the scene at 281 Fourth Avenue, smoke was billowing from the [...]
MEMPHIS, TN- Posted on January 6, 2010. Flames erupted at a Southeast Memphis apartment complex Tuesday night. It happened around 7:15 p.m. at the Pinebrook Point Apartments. When crews arrived smoke and flames were shooting out of the building. Four units were involved. It took crews 45 minute to get the flames under control. A [...]
