Small House Fire Turns Deadly In Nashville

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NASHVILLE, Tenn. - Investigators in Nashville are trying to figure out why a fire turned deadly on Tuesday night. The flames never got out of control, but the fire was big enough to kill someone.

The fire was contained to a back room of a small house in the Whites Creek area of Nashville.

Firefighters shut down Knight Road, not too far from Ewing Park Middle School. It did not take them long to knock down the flames in that one room.

The Nashville Assistant Fire Chief Jerry Smith said the room and the contents suffered substantial damage. It was not until firefighters put out the flames that they discovered the body of a male victim right by a locked backdoor, not far from where the fire started.

"It was a small bedroom, quite a bit of fire damage there. It didn't extend into the rest of the house. Once firefighters knocked the fire down, they of course, discovered the victim laying there," said Smith.

Smith said the man died from injuries he sustained in the fire and not from smoke inhalation.

The fire marshal's office was headed to the scene around 8 p.m. to start looking into how that fire started.