Fire heavily damaged a house on Ovoca Road Wednesday afternoon.
The Tullahoma Fire Department was called to 1203 Ovoca around 1 p.m. where they found flames coming from the front of the home of Gerald Gibson and family.
According to Fire Chief Richard Shasteen, the fire was started by a 5-year-old playing with a lighter who set a bedroom on fire and then the rest of the house caught fire. An individual in the house, Lloyd Chadwick, tried to extinguish the blaze but was unable to do so. He was transported to Harton Regional Medical Center where was treated and later transferred to Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville for observation.
Gibson, his daughter Gabriel Osteen and her two children were in the house at the time of the fire but escaped without injury.
There were four dogs in the house at the time of the fire. A Chihuahua and another small dog were overcome by the smoke and firefighter Dwight Stephens attempted to revive both them but was unable to save them, while the other two dogs were retrieved without any injuries.

State officials say 961 people died on Tennessee roadways last year, the second lowest number since 1963 and only the fifth time traffic deaths have dipped below 1,000 since that year.
It is also a 3.4 percent decrease in traffic-related deaths from 2013 when 995 people were killed.
THP Col. Tracy Trott credits DUI and seat belt enforcement for the decline in traffic-related deaths. Troopers arrested 2,000 more people in 2014 than in 2013 for suspicion of DUI. Alcohol-related fatalities dropped 18.6 percent from year to year.
Last year, troopers issued 102,758 seat belt citations, around 28,000 more than the previous year.
Col. Trott said unrestrained motorists still accounted for 50 percent of vehicle occupants killed in 2014.
Speed accounted for 132 of the deaths, and distracted driving accounted for 41.

On January 9th, 2015, Concerns of Police Survivors, Inc. (C.O.P.S.) and partnering organizations will unite in support of law enforcement officers nationwide to promote a National Law Enforcement Appreciation Day (L.E.A.D.). It is an opportunity to show law enforcement officers that our citizens recognize the difficult career they have chosen, in public service to us all.
Each day 780,000 police officers across our country put a badge on and go to work knowing they may face extremely dangerous situations. Yet, they go to work anyway. Being a law enforcement officer is not just a job, it is a calling, and there is sometimes little appreciation. Yet, they do it anyway.
What the public doesn’t see is the toll law enforcement takes to keep our communities safe. On average, between 105 and 203 officers die in the line of duty each year, 50,000 officers are assaulted in the line of duty each year, 14,000 officers are injured in the line of duty each year, and over 300 officers commit suicide each year. There is no other profession in the world, except possibly the military, where you will find these kinds of statistics.

Authorities say they will test nearly 100 people at a Middle Tennessee school for tuberculosis after a student tested positive for the disease.
Dr. Lori MacDonald, medical officer for the state’s Mid-Cumberland region, told The Daily News Journal the Rutherford County student who tested positive had a “very low” bacteria count and it is unlikely there would be any more positive cases.
However, officials plan to test nearly 100 students and staff members at Smyrna High School, where the patient attended.
District officials say the student hasn’t attended classes since early December.

Two Tennessee towns will lose nearly 2,000 jobs over the next three years as Goodman Manufacturing moves the positions to a new plant being built in Texas.
Goodman officials announced on Tuesday that the company plans to consolidate operations at a campus in Houston, which is expected to open in 2016.
The company has about 1,200 workers in Fayetteville, making it the largest employer in a town with about 7,000 residents. A smaller factory in Dayton employs about 700 workers.
Goodman said employees will have the option of making the move with the company or taking a severance package that includes two years of free college and assistance finding other work.
City officials say the advance notice should help soften the blow to the communities.
Several people from Coffee County work at the Fayetteville plant.

Manchester Chamber of Commerce has announced the hiring of Terri Hudson as its new director. Hudson comes to Manchester from her hometown of Richmond, KY. She brings more than 10 years of experience in non-profit organizations. She earned her bachelor’s and master’s degrees at Eastern Kentucky University and is a graduate of Leadership Madison County and Leadership Central Kentucky.
Most recently, Hudson served as the Vice President of Operations at Bluegrass Tomorrow, a non-profit central Kentucky regional planning and quality of life organization. She was also a job coach and class facilitator at Kentucky River Foothills, a non-profit social services agency.
Before that, she spent five years at the Richmond Chamber of Commerce. It was there that Hudson says she grew professionally, fell in love with chamber work, and gained the knowledge and experience to make a chamber successful. During her tenure, the Richmond chamber experienced exponential growth in membership, member and community engagement, as well as revenues for major events. Her leadership with their Business and Education Partnership committee laid the foundation for Richmond’s recent Work Ready Community status.
Carla Clay, President Elect 2015 said, “The Executive Committee interviewed several promising candidates for the Executive Director position. Terri Hudson embodied all of the traits and expertise for which the committee was searching. I know 2015 will be a great year for The Manchester Area Chamber of Commerce with someone of Terri’s experience leading the way.”