Several residents were evacuated and one was injured as they attempted to escape a seventh-floor fire at Patten Towers in downtown Chattanooga on Saturday morning.
The call went out at 10:36 a.m. Nearly every company working for the Chattanooga Fire Department on Saturday responded to the scene or staged, ready to offer manpower, according to a news release.
“Off-duty members of the department came in, including the command staff, to assist, and many of our Mutual Aid partners filled in at our fire halls,” the release states.
“It was a tremendous amount of work getting tools and resources upstairs and firefighters also helped with evacuations. A number of residents are non-ambulatory and needed to be carried out of the building.”
The fire was extinguished at 11:44 a.m.