MONROE COUNTY, Tennessee — The Monroe County Sheriff’s Office responded to a house fire on the 400 block of Crowder Road in Madisonville on Monday afternoon, along with multiple fire departments and law enforcement agencies.

After the fire was extinguished, responders discovered that a man died in the fire, according to MCSO.

The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation State Bomb and Arson Division is currently investigating the cause of the fire.

As units were clearing the scene, a Monroe County Sheriff’s Office detective was involved in a two-vehicle accident on US-411.

The detective was transported to the University of Tennessee Medical Center for evaluation, but the condition of the other person involved in the crash is currently unknown, according to MCSO.

The Madisonville Police Depar

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