SEYMOUR, Tenn. (WATE) — One person died Tuesday in a house fire early Tuesday morning in the 400 block of Bays Mountain Road near Seymour. Crews with the Seymour Fire Department fought for hours to put out a house fire that turned deadly.
“They were trying to fight the blaze. There were a lot of people, lot of sirens, noises. You could see the smoke and fire billowing all over,” recalled Gertrude Showers, a neighbor.
Around 7 a.m., fire crews were met with heavy flames coming from a home. Four houses down, Showers woke up to sirens, flashing lights and a scary scene…