A fire on New Year's Eve took out a clinic in Tennessee, causing a total loss.
The cause of the fire that broke out in Tennessee on New Year's Eve has not been determined, according to a statement released by the city's fire department.
A large single story commercial building was fully involved with fire through the roof. The fire was attacked from the exterior. The fire is under control and should be out soon. The building was being renovated. The building is a total loss. The fire is being investigated. As the investigation continues, more information will be released.
The clinic was closed due to renovations when the fire broke. The fire department said there were no injuries.
The department is looking into the possibility of a fire.
Assistant Chief Mark Wilbanks told the Daily Beast that there was no cause and no information pointing to the direction of the fire.
If the cause is determined to be fire, it will be the second time in a year that the clinic has been attacked. A man shot a shotgun into the glass of the building's exterior in January of last year. Nobody was inside when the shooting happened.
The damage from the fire is so extensive that it will be difficult to determine the cause.
Wilbanks told the Daily Beast that fire officials had to use a lot of water to douse the fire and get the situation under control.
He said that using a lot of water to put out the fire made it harder to dig into the evidence. We're going to have to use hand shovels, but we'd ideally go in with backhoes.
As abortion-rights groups continue to push back against a series of restrictive reproductive rights laws, the news of the fire comes.
