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The 2002 Farragut derailment occurred on the morning of Sunday, September 15, in Farragut, Tennessee. Norfolk Southern freight train 15T derailed 27 cars, resulting in the release of oleum or fuming sulfuric acid. Roughly 2,600 residents were evacuated from nearby homes for three days until hazardous materials crews were able to mitigate the ...
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Hayden Dunbar, Knoxville News Sentinel May 21, 2024 at 5:05 AM Bill Felton's 1990 trip to the Normandy American Cemetery and Memorial in France deeply moved him, the Knoxville News Sentinel ...
A fire was intentionally set in Knoxville as fire crews across East Tennessee battle daily wildfires breaking out during period of extreme drought. Wildfires, including one in Knoxville, continue ...
The Knoxville Fire Department can trace its beginnings to 1854 when Town Marshal J.D. Stacks saw the need for an organized volunteer fire department. [3] But it was in March 1885 when the city of Knoxville formed a full-time, paid fire department. By the turn of the century, the number of firefighters in the department had grown to 30. [3]
Folmsbee, Stanley J. and Lucile Deaderick. The Founding of Knoxville. (East Tennessee Historical Society, 1941.) History of Tennessee from the Earliest Time to the Present: Together With an Historical and a Biographical Sketch of From Twenty-Five to Thirty Counties of East Tennessee. (The Goodspeed Publishing Co., Chicago, Nashville, 1887 ...
Myron Thompson, Knoxville News Sentinel July 5, 2024 at 8:36 AM The Knoxville Fire Department is urging community members to not set off fireworks because of the hot and dry weather expected over ...
The Tennessee Valley Unitarian Universalist Church shooting was a mass shooting that occurred on July 27, 2008, [2] when an unemployed Tennessee truck driver named Jim David Adkisson went on a shooting rampage at the Tennessee Valley Unitarian Universalist Church in Knoxville, Tennessee, United States. Adkisson opened fire on members of the ...