By Shannon McFarlin News Director
Henry County, Tenn.–The TBI and the Henry County Sheriff’s Office are investigating a series of arson fires that have occurred over the last few nights in Oakland and Mansfield.
Mansfield Assistant Fire Chief Darren Webb said this morning investigators have a possible description of a vehicle near the scene and sheriff’s deputies are looking over trail camera footage for other clues.
The Mansfield Volunteer Fire Department was called out on three arson fires Saturday night, one of which destroyed an abandoned house.
The Oakland Fire Department was called out on another suspicious fire call last night which burned an entire acre of woodland.
As we reported earlier, the Oakland VFD had an unprecedented seven fire calls in one day Thursday, most of which were suspicious grass fires which are under investigation.
Webb said the Mansfield Department was called out at 10:14 p.m. to Three Bridges Road where a roadside-set fire had moved to adjoining woods. “And then we got another call while we were there, of another fire just up the road on Three Bridges Road. The second fire was just two miles from the first and both of the fires were roadside-set.”
While Mansfield firefighters were extinguishing those fires, they were dispatched around 11 p.m. to Bear Creek Road where an abandoned house was on fire. The one-story frame structure was destroyed.
In Oakland, Fire Chief James Martin said his department was dispatched at 8:34 p.m. to the woods next to 8029 Hwy. 641S.
Responding to the Oakland fire were two trucks and 11 firefighters.
For the Mansfield fires, all department firefighters and all three of their trucks were at the scenes, Webb said.
Top photo shows the abandoned house fire on Bear Creek Rd. in Mansfield. (Darren Webb photo).
Bottom photo shows the woods fire on Hwy. 641S in Oakland. (Photo by Katie Gibson).
