A tragic fire occurred Monday morning around 8:30am on Blue Creek Road in Tullahoma inside Franklin County.
When authorities arrived, deputies say bystanders helped pull three children from the home. Tragically one child died after being taken to Southern Tennessee Regional Healthcare in Winchester.
The two others were flown to Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville where they remain in the burn unit.
There is an ongoing investigation into the fire by the Franklin County Sheriff’s Office in conjunction with the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation and state bomb and arson investigators.

If you smoke in your home and you live in public housing, soon you’ll be required to stop smoking or you’ll have to move.
Public housing developments nationwide, including all those in Coffee County will be required to provide a smoke-free environment for their residents.
The new U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) rule, set for full implementation by August 2018, requires each agency administering public housing to ban lit tobacco products (cigarettes, cigars or pipes) and waterpipes (hookahs) in all living units, indoor common areas, administrative offices and all outdoor areas within 25 feet of housing and administrative office buildings.
Beginning Feb 3, 2017 more than 3,100 agencies across the country will have 18 months to implement the required smoke-free policies.
According to HUD, this rule improves indoor air quality in the housing; benefits the health of public housing residents, visitors, and staff; reduces the risk of catastrophic fires; and lowers overall maintenance costs.

A Tennessee congressman has introduced a school bus seat belt bill designed to help protect school children.
U.S. Rep. Steve Cohen, who represents Tennessee’s 9th U.S. Congressional District around Memphis, is a member of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee.
Cohen introduced the Bring Enhanced Liability in Transportation for Students (BELTS) Act to help protect children who ride on school buses.
The bill would create federal grants to purchase new school buses with lap/shoulder seat belts or equip existing ones with such belts and creates federal grants to equip school buses with motion-activated detection systems, according to a news release.
The bill would also direct the Secretary of Transportation to withhold federal-aid highway funds if the state has not enacted a law that requires the employer to conduct background checks before hiring school bus drivers.

Medical marijuana will again be a topic of discussion in the Tennessee state legislature as Rep. Jeremy Faison plans to introduce a bill during the next legislative session.
Faison’s office said Friday a formal announcement about the bill proposal would come Wednesday. Specifics about the bill will be discussed at that time.
Faison said in October he planned to introduce a medical marijuana bill after meeting with several families who moved from Tennessee to Colorado to get treatment they can’t get here.