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Small fire erupts at homeless camp near Emerald Point, Elizabethton TN

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Fire & Arson

Reported: 11/29/2025 03:56 PM

Emerald Point, Elizabethton, TN 37643

Fire breaks out at a homeless camp near Emerald Point with grass catching flame, causing breathing difficulties for a nearby resident with COPD.

Audio|Heard on: Carter County Public Safety

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03:4

Transcript:

00:00

A fire department need you to respond to one, one, one,

00:08

two. A outside campfire,

00:11

any homeless encampment?

00:17

One-60, call center.

00:23

Good.

00:25

Good.

00:27

Good morning, New Traffic,

00:28

1303, 1303, 130030 to produce the lane for 60-year-old female, difficult to breathing.

00:37

Wittagat fire department needed to respond to 112 Emerald outside fire at a homeless encampment.

00:46

Thank you very much.

00:53

Call, Turner.

00:58

I know unit one-17-7-7-2

01:05

12th end, the mileage 4.1, 4.1.

01:09

1,900, 1,0-0.

01:16

For this regard, this is for 5 cost of 809.

01:21

Go ahead.

01:25

One 12, 112, Emerald Point,

01:28

in multiple calls, there's some type of fire there out in the field.

01:33

A caller,

01:34

it's possibly a homeless encampment.

01:37

On 1016-0.

01:39

The 6-0.

01:44

The 6-0, got to turn around 1901.

01:48

There's point 1303-1303-1303-1-3-4th Lane, Department Delta, Cross-reference, Pine Ridge Circle.

01:55

This is a 66-year-old female complaining of difficulty breathing.

01:59

Those have a history, COPD.

02:04

Go ahead. Hello.

02:13

Call to your fire, Power, need to respond to 1122 Emmold Point, small off by fire, during spread through the grass.

02:39

This traffic on Strait line road.

02:45

CREASA.

02:48

Careful.

02:55

The fire to power engine one.

02:57

The address again is 112 Emerald Point.

03:02

Your cross street is set-power drive.

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Emerald Point, Elizabethton, TN 37643

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