Kitchen Fire Causes Damage to Home on Possum Hollow Road

A kitchen fire Sunday evening caused some damage at the home of Anna Bell Elrod at 720 Possum Hollow Road.
Firefighters were notified at 6:24 p.m.
County Fire Chief Donny Green said a neighbor, who had just come home from church, spotted smoke coming from the Elrod house and called 911 to report it.
When firefighters arrived, Chief Green said they saw heavy smoke coming from the back of the home. They made entry through a back door into the kitchen. The fire apparently started from a stove eye, which had been left on. The blaze had spread up the wall behind the stove into the attic. The fire was contained to the kitchen area but heat and smoke spread into other parts of the house.
No one was at home at the time of the fire.
Chief Green said that Elrod had left home around 3:30 p.m. after preparing some food for her husband, who is in the nursing home in Smithville. She had left to take the food to him and apparently left the stove eye on.
Members of the Liberty, Main Station, and Short Mountain Highway Departments of the DeKalb County Volunteer Fire Department responded along with the tanker truck, DeKalb EMS, and the Sheriff’s Department.