A weekend fire that started in a child’s bedroom in east Chattanooga displaced a family of seven.
No one was inside the home on the 3300 block of Dodson Avenue when it erupted in flames Saturday afternoon, according to a news release from the Chattanooga Fire Department.
But the mother and six children who live in the home are receiving aid from the American Red Cross of southeast Tennessee temporarily in wake of the fire, according to the fire department.
The fire was ruled accidental and contained to the bedroom. Firefighters said combustibles – a plastic container and clothes – were too close to a baseboard heater and burst into flames when they got too hot.
Fire officials said the blaze was contained to the bedroom, but the rest of the house had smoke and water damage.