Man Charged With Setting Fire To a Summitville Home

Thomas Lawrence “TJ” Vandusen of Manchester has been charged in connection with a house fire in the Forrest Mill area.
The 22 year-old Vandusen was arrested, charged with the fire as well as vandalism over $1,000 and booked in at the Coffee County Jail.
The fire was a mobile home at 330 Volunteer Avenue in Summitville and according to a report by Coffee County Sheriff’s Investigator James Sherrill, Vandusen admitted to setting the fire.
He allegedly told officers that he poured gas throughout the mobile home and lit a match and set the fire. The mobile home was destroyed by the fire on November 10.