$20,000 Fire onTaft Ave.

Chattanooga firefighters were called to a house fire off Rossville Boulevard shortly before 6 pm Monday night. The fire was located at 1015 Taft Avenue. A man from a business next door approached the first arriving firefighters, saying he went into the house and used a fire extinguisher, but the fire was still burning in the living room of the house.

Captain Tally Glover with Quint 1 said the firefighters took hand-held hoselines into the house and managed to get the fire out fairly quickly, containing most of the fire damage to the living room. The rest of the house sustained smoke and heat damage.

The lone occupant of the house, Katie Byrdie, told firefighters that she was taking a nap and woke up to discover her living room was on fire. She made it out of the house unharmed.

Captain Lesley Morgan with the Fire Investigation Division said the cause of the fire appears to be accidental, though what sparked the blaze remains undetermined. The dollar loss was estimated at $20,000.