LAWRENCEBURG, Tenn. (WKRN) — A Lawrence County fire that claimed the lives of a 7-year-old boy, his father, and a pregnant woman was likely caused by a lightning strike, fire officials have said.
Lawrence County Fire Rescue Units responded to the blaze on Morgan Road a little before 8 a.m. Thursday, May 9. Jackson Lee Wissner, 7, and his father, Travis Lee Wissner, 28, were killed, as was Elizabeth Paige Brown, 18, who was pregnant.
Lawrence County fire officials said they concluded a lightning strike could not be eliminated as a cause of the fire.
Evidence on the scene, witness statements and lightning strike data place lightning in the area prior to the fire, according to the Lawrence County Fire & Rescue Association.
Working smoke alarms were not detected in dispatch recordings, and the first arriving firefighters did not hear smoke alarms sounding on scene, fire officials said in a release.
"The cause of the fire has been determined to be accidental with the most probable cause being a lightning strike," the release stated.
