Vol. 72, Issue 10

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Southern Accent

The student voice for 90 years!

Collegedale, Tennessee

Thursday, December 1, 2016

Vol. 72, Issue 10

Southern fights fire!

A fire burns in the forest behind the Southern Village apartments about 8 p.m. on Monday evening.

Photo By Rachel Brouhard

Blaze extinguished near residential apartments Danielle allen News editor

A fire burned for about an hour behind the Hickory and Red Bud apartments in Southern Village on Monday night. Campus Safety confirmed that the fire resulted from a transformer on an elec-

trical line exploding in the brush behind student housing; the wind, in addition to the Tennessee drought conditions, fueled the fire. The TriCommunity fire department was dispatched at 7:52 p.m. to the Village, along with the Collegedale Police Department and Campus Safety.

Eric Collson, senior nursing major, and Mitchell Hagan, senior financial management major, saw the transformer explosion and were the first students at the site of the fire. “I was making food in my kitchen and I heard a big pop, and we looked outside and it was almost like a firework hitting

the woods,” Collson said. “We went outside and took a cooler of water, ran into the woods, got to the fire and saw that it was a down power line. After we saw it was a down power line, we dumped our bucket and left.” Collson and Hagan’s housemate, Jonathan Lowery, junior

long term care administration major, then called the fire department who responded almost immediately. Many students responded to the news of the fire and recorded it on Facebook Live and Snapchat. See FIRE, page 2


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