Child injured in the Great Smoky Mountains national park airlifted to UT

A small child from Coweta county Georgia was injured in the Great Smoky Mountains national park early this evening with injures serious enough to require that the child be transferred from a Gatlinburg Tennessee ambulance in the Sugarlands Visitor Center to a UT Lifestar helicopter for air transport to the hospital.

An unconfirmed source told us that the injuries occurred in or around a camp fire causing the child to be burned in the Elkmont Campgrounds.

Fortunately from what we saw the child was breathing on its own seemed quite calm when being transferred from the Ambulance to the waiting helicopter.

UT Campus gas leak evacuation may have been caused by leaking hydraulic fluid

The University of Tennessee campus in Knoxville TN was the scene of an evacuation prompted by a mysterious leak first thought to be a gas leak at a construction site.

A coordinated effort between the Knoxville Fire Department and UT Police Department cleared the construction area and a sidewalk on Andy Holt Drive all later to be open when first responders gave the all clear.

It was first believed by emergency services that the leak was gas in nature but it is now believed to have been possibly leaking hydraulic fluid for construction equipment.