Arson is suspected in a fire early Tuesday
morning at the home of Charlotte Headrick on Cloyds Church Road
in Greenback.
Arson suspected in Greenback house fireBy Iva Butler thedailytimes.com
Arson is suspected in a fire early Tuesday
morning at the home of Charlotte Headrick on Cloyds Church Road
in Greenback.
The residence was unoccupied at the time because
Headrick was staying with her daughter in Maryville, said
Greenback Volunteer Fire Department Chief Ronnie Lett.
The fire in the single-story wood structure
started on the outside corner of the house and got up into the
eaves, he said.
Both Greenback and Friendsville volunteer fire
departments responded to the fire because it was right on the
line, winding up in the Greenback fire district.
According to the report of a Blount County
deputy, Lett approached him at the scene and “advised that this
fire was obviously intentionally set on an exterior wall of the
structure.”
Two teenagers at the scene, ages 13 and 14, are
suspects in the apparent arson “due to their vague and
conflicting and changing accounts of the events,” according to
the report.
The investigation is continuing and charges are
pending, according to Sheriff’s Office spokeswoman Marian
O’Briant.
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