Firefighters fight a fire at a Brainerd house that led to two people being injured and taken to a local hospital. Photo from Bruce Garner of the Chattanooga Fire Department.The elderly man who was severely burned in a house fire on Kemp Drive on Tuesday has died.
Chattanooga Fire Department spokesman Bruce Garner said Andrew Broomfield, 86, died about 2 p.m. Thursday at the Joseph M. Still Burn Center in Augusta, Ga.
He said Broomfield had second- and third-degree burns to about 70 percent of his body.
The cause of the fire remains under investigation.