The investigation into an early-morning fire that destroyed the Cohutta Police Departments’s headquarters Dec. 18 is ongoing, the Georgia city’s police chief said.
“We don’t know anything yet,” Chief Greg Fowler said in a phone interview. “The state fire marshal is on the scene along with other investigators from the insurance company of the Rhyne and Son. They’re still working diligently.”
Arson hasn’t been ruled out, Fowler said, and investigators are still trying to determine where and how the fire started.
Several nearby businesses and a church have offered their security footage to investigators, and he said accessing that video is being coordinated.
Only a few file drawers containing paperwork were saved from the fire, Fowler said, and most of the equipment was lost, including about 25 computers, fingerprint machines, printers, weapons, ballistic vests and gun belts for the department’s 12 police officers.