Neighbors Bear The Heat To Help After a House Fire in Piney Flats

Piney Flats, Tenn.—A hot day on Sunday fueled a fire to blaze through the roof of a house in Piney Flats. No one was injured, but the house at 180 Piney Flats Road suffered major damage.
    Flames started in the garage and ripped through the attic. The owner, Kathy Barrett, was inside. She heard a pop, and saw flames. She got out of the house safely with her dogs.
    The heat of the day made it that much harder for fire fighters. One went to the hospital with heat exhaustion, another was burned from an explosion.
    Most of the inside damage was from smoke and water. Fire fighters and neighbors worked mostly to get valuables out of the home.
    “That was our main priority when we saw what we had going on with the fire had already hit the attic,“ says Assistant Fire Chief, Todd Justice, “was to salvage what she had in the house, and trying to save as many of her possessions as we could.“
    That fire was out within an hour, but fire fighters stayed a while to make sure all the hot spots were out. Home owner, Kathy Barrett, plans to stay with her son in Johnson City until her house is back in shape.

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