At 8:20 AM CST on Saturday, Dunlap Fire Department responded to a commercial building fire in the Dunlap Downtown Business District. Smoke was reported coming from the upstairs vents of the Free Spirit Hair Salon at the corner of Rankin Avenue and Cherry Street. Firefighters arrived to find a fire in the upstairs apartment. Mutual …
On Saturday, the Dunlap Fire participated in a “Mayday Drill” with Sequachee Valley Electric Cooperative. The drill prepares crews for real-world emergencies in the field. The drill was successful. Working alongside the Sequatchie County Sheriff’s Office, Puckett EMS TN / NORTH GA, Sequatchie County Emergency Management, Tennessee Emergency Management Agency, and LIFE FORCE Air Medical, …
On Tuesday, June 24th, at approximately 6:25 PM, the Dunlap Fire Department was assigned to a plane crash, along with the Dunlap Police Department, Sequatchie County Emergency Management, Sequatchie County Sheriff’s Office, and Puckett EMS TN/North GA. Firefighters assisted EMS with patient care and helped secure the crash site to prevent any fuel from igniting …
On Tuesday, June 24th, at approximately 6:25 PM, the Dunlap Fire Department was assigned to a plane crash, along with the Dunlap Police Department, Sequatchie County Emergency Management, Sequatchie County Sheriff’s Office, and Puckett EMS TN/North GA. Firefighters assisted EMS with patient care and helped secure the crash site to prevent any fuel from igniting …
Just after the storm on Saturday, June 7, 2025, the Dunlap Volunteer Fire Department received 4 alarm assignments within an hour. The first call was at 3:49 PM for a fire alarm on Apache Lane. Three minutes later, there was the report of a single car accident on Hwy 111 just over the top of …
On Tuesday morning, June 3, 2025, at 8:19 AM, the Dunlap Fire Department responded to a semi-truck fire on Hwy 111 northbound going up Cagle Mountain below the waterfalls. Piney Volunteer Fire Department also responded as mutual aid with their tanker.  Sequatchie County Sheriff’s deputies and Sequatchie County EMA also responded for assistance at the …
At 3:38 p.m. on Thursday, March 20, 2025, the Dunlap Fire Department was dispatched to a single-vehicle accident on Hwy 127 (Rankin Avenue) near Seminole Drive. Firefighters arrived and found the vehicle occupied by a driver and passenger. Both were extricated from the car. Dunlap Fire reports that the unnamed driver did not survive the …
On September 20, 2024, at around 1:30 PM, the Dunlap Fire Department was dispatched to a farming Combine on fire in a bean field off of Old York Highway near the Sequatchie River. Dunlap Fire and personnel from the Dunlap Police Department, Sequatchie County Sheriff’s Office, and Sequatchie County Emergency Management responded to the scene. …
At 12:50 a.m. Saturday, the Sequatchie County Rescue Squad to a report of a missing person. The Rescue Squad, along with EMA and the Sequatchie County Sheriff’s Department, entered the woods at Blue Hole going up Cagle Mountain at approximately 1 a.m. A male, approximately 30 years of age, was reported missing by his mother, expecting …
On July 22, 2024, at around 2:40 PM, Dunlap Fire responded to a vehicle fire on SR 111 Southbound, just South of the Scenic Overlook. Sequatchie County Sheriff’s deputies and Sequatchie County Emergency Management Director Brian Rhueling also responded. Upon arrival, firefighters found a midsize SUV with the entire front part engulfed in fire. They …
