KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — An apartment fire at the Collective at Sutherland apartment complex left fifteen people, along with two dogs and one cat, displaced. Two of the victims on the third floor of the complex jumped from their window to escape the flames — Melissa and Darren Brewster.
“If he’d have stayed in there a second longer, I’d be sitting here a widow,” Melissa Brewster said. “And no Dixie.”
Dixie is the Brewster’s Pomeranian mix pup that didn’t survive the fire. She was supposed to celebrate her third birthday on Dec. 14 — that was until the apartment caught flames…