White Co. fire victim identified

CLEVELAND - The man who died in an early morning house fire Wednesday in White County has been identified as 27-year old James Rondell Brown.

According to Ana Newberry, White County Fire Department Public Information Officer, the blaze occurred around 4:00 on Trent Trail in the Skitts Mountain Cove Subdivision in the southern part of the county.

Newberry said three other people, a woman and two children, were able to get out unharmed. She said there were smoke detectors in the house and they alerted the residents, and as they were getting out of the house, but that it "apparently started outside the house and spread quickly." A neighbor woke up and saw the flames and called 911.

The cause of the fire is unknown at this time, but fire investigators will be searching for the cause later Wednesday.