Two people escape Tazewell Pike fire

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WVLT) - Tazewell Pike is now open after the Knoxville Fire Department responded to an early morning garage fire that closed the road.

Asst. Chief Mark Wilbanks with KFD said the call came in just before 5:00 a.m. Tuesday of a fire in a garage next to a home in the 4300 block of Tazewell Pike, which is near Beverly Road in East Knoxville.

When firefighters arrived, they found a large, detached garage with an apartment on fire with a home nearby, KFD said.

Wilbanks said both people in the apartment escaped the fire and were uninjured, and Knoxville Fire Department investigators are on the scene working to determine a cause.