Early Wednesday Morning Blaze Erupts At Abandoned Kingsport Apartment Complex

UPDATE, 1 p.m.

A building marked for demolition by Kingsport officials was the site of a Wednesday morning fire that remains under investigation.

Assistant Fire Chief Terry Arnold said department workers had extinguished three smaller fires at the abandoned apartment complex located in the 700 block of East Center Street prior to Wednesday’s blaze that took about an hour to control.

Arnold noted the large fire was sourced back to the center of the building in an upstairs apartment.
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An early morning fire in Downtown Kingsport Wednesday morning kept firefighters and other first responders busy as they battled a fully engulfed, abandoned apartment complex fire. The blaze broke out around six a.m at the building located at the intersection of Center Street and E. Sullivan Street. We have reached out to the Kingsport Fire Department but no word yet on the cause of the blaze which remains under investigation.