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The Baxter Fire Department is offering free smoke alarms and installation to anyone who wants one. Fire Chief Matthew White said residents can also request a fire safety check in their home and will test older smoke detectors that take batteries like 9 volts. White said these new detectors have a 10 year battery, so helping to install them in ... Read More »

An Overton County residential fire on Noel Drive has displaced one resident. Both Overton’s Hardys Chapel Fire Department and the Putnam County Fire Department were sent. Putnam Fire Chief Tom Brown said there was initial confusion which county the property was on. “The fire appeared to have begun in a shed type building, a storage building, just adjacent to a ... Read More »