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CAMPBELL COUNTY, TN (WLAF)- It may have been the busiest holiday weekend ever for members of the Campbell County Rural Fire Service as crews responded to 13 calls.
TOP PHOTO: The weekend of calls answered by the CCRFS began with this pick-up truck versus telephone pole call on Friday.
It all began Friday morning a shade before eight o’clock when a pick up truck struck a telephone pole. The impact flipped the truck on its side, the driver’s side on Pinecrest Road near the Indian Creek Baptist Church. The lone occupant refused to be taken to the hospital.
Also on Friday, that night, the CCRFS responded to Waterfront Trails off of Ivy Hollow Road for a house that had been struck by lightning. There was no fire found by CCRFS firefighters though they did check the structure with thermal imaging cameras to ensure there was no sign of fire in the walls, and there wasn’t.
Saturday picked up where Friday left off. At 5:43am on July 4, the Campbell County Rural Fire Service was dispatched to a vehicle over a 30-foot embankment and on its top on Demory Road at College Hill Road. Crews searched the vehicle along with the wooded area, and no one was found in or around the vehicle.
A little after noon on Saturday, the CCRFS responded to a side-by-side accident on East Norris Point. The side-by-side was headed down a steep driveway when its brakes failed, and it hit a tree injuring several people. Five patients were transported by Campbell EMS.
At 1:46pm on Saturday, CCRFS units responded to a report of a vehicle fire on Pleasant Ridge Road. The crews were able to quickly extinguish the fire of a pick-up truck.
Over the course of Saturday, volunteers with the CCRFS responded to two vehicle fires to first responder calls and three vehicle accidents.
At 1pm Sunday, the CCRFS responded to a two vehicle accident on old Middlesboro Highway near Kilgore’s Auction. Two pick-up trucks collided with one of the trucks veering off the road and stopped just before hitting a house. One patient was transported by Campbell EMS.
On Sunday, a little after five-pm, the CCRFS responded to a female with a possible back injury suffered while tubing. She ended up refusing transport to the hospital. The incident happened on Bank Wood Lane which is off Grantsboro and Chestnut Stump Roads.
Campbell County EMS and Campbell County Sheriff’s Department also responded on these calls with the CCRFS. (WLAF NEWS PUBLISHED-07/06/2026-6AM-PHOTOS COURTESY OF CRFS CHIEF DANIEL LAWSON)