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Wlaf1450Calls of a car fire and an ATV wreck were handled
CARYVILLE, TN (WLAF)- Two men are recovering this morning from injuries sustained in an ATV wreck while one person is without his sports car after it burned.
Wednesday at 6pm, a 2008 Chevrolet Corvette caught fire at Mile Marker 136 southbound on I-75. Traffic was forced down to the center shoulder next to a concrete barrier while firefighters with the Caryville Volunteer Fire Department were battling the car fire. The ‘Vette was a total loss. No one was injured. Caryville Police and the Tennessee Highway Patrol also responded.
Two hours later at 8:05pm, a couple of people on an ATV wrecked on Red Ash Mountain. Campbell County EMS responded and transported the men, who were suffering from injuries, to area hospitals. One was taken to the La Follette Medical Center while another was airlifted to a Knoxville hospital.
A landing zone for the medical helicopter to land was set up at the Caryville ballfield by CVFD firefighters and officers with CPD. The patient flown out suffered a leg injury with the other patient was suffering non-life threatening injuries. (WLAF NEWS PUBLISHED-04/16/2026-6AM-PHOTOS COURTESY OF CFFD CHIEF EDDIE HATMAKER)