Child Dies, Father Badly Burned in TN Apartment Fire
A young child was killed and the father was burned over 80 percent of his body in an apartment fire in the Antioch section of Nashville early Monday morning.
According to television station WKRN 2 News, the decease child was under age five and the child’s father, mother, and sibling were taken to Vanderbilt University Medical Center for treatment.
The fire apparently started in a lower apartment unit and spread to the upper floor where the family was living, the TV station reported.
Nashville Fire Captain William Swann told WKRN eight units of the apartment building in the Stone Ridge apartment complex on Picadilly Row were damaged.
The American Red Cross was called to help displaced residents. The cause of the fire remains under investigation.
