La Follette family escapes with its lives from burning home

‘It’s fully engulfed’- Campbell County Sheriff’s Deputy

LAFOLLETTE, TN (WLAF)- With temperatures hovering around 10-degrees, members of a La Follette family escaped with their lives when their Beals Lane home went up in flames in the wee hours of Tuesday.

A Campbell County Sheriff’s Deputy was the first on the scene of the 3:32am fire radioing to Central Dispatch to verify that there was a structure fire. The deputy described the home as “fully engulfed” and soon was able to account for everyone in the home saying “all are out”.

Firefighters with the Campbell County Rural Fire Service arrived in several units to battle the blaze. “We also have other structures to protect,” said CCRFS Captain Daniel Lawson. There is a home close to the burning home at 167 Beals Lane, just off Glade Springs Road.

The other structures were saved from the house fire. “The extreme cold temps made it very difficult. We had instant freezing of water,” said Captain Lawson.

Additionally, a lineman with LUB arrived to disconnect power from the home. A member of the Campbell County Highway Department also responded to lay down gravel and salt where the water from fighting the fire had frozen on Beals Lane.

There were no injuries.

Firefighters cleared the scene at 5:31am.

(WLAF NEWS PUBLISHED-01/21/2025-6AM-PHOTOS COURTESY OF CCRFS CAPTAIN DANIEL LAWSON)