The Knoxville Fire department is reminding motorists to move over when you see emergency vehicles on the road.

KFD trucks have been involved in three separate accidents while on scene responding to calls. Fortunately, no one has been hurt or killed in these incidents. The latest involved a car which ran into a fire engine stopped on the scene of an interstate accident and was parked across the road blocking that accident.

Tennessee state law requires motorists to move over into an adjacent lane of traffic when safe to do so or to reduce their speed when approaching emergency vehicles.

The upsurge in KFD accidents is concerning, given the high cost of equipment damage and the possibility that a firefighter or police officer could be seriously injured or killed while working on an emergency scene on the highway.

An investigation is underway in Roane County following a fatal accident that closed Interstate 40 East for hours.

The Tennessee Highway Patrol says 37 year-old Charles Isabell was driving a tractor-trailer when he ran off the road. When he got back on, he crossed over both lanes and then hit a rock embankment and was pronounced dead at the scene.

Another car was involved in Friday’s accident, it hit the tractor-trailer when it got back on the roadway but that driver was not injured.

A man is charged with first-degree murder after he called 911 to tell police he shot his wife.

The Hamblen County Sheriff’s Office responding to that shooting call on Marie Street in Talbott Saturday after Charles Barbely made the call Satuday night. He reportedly laid a handgun on the front porch and was arrested without incident.

Deputies found his wife, Mickey unresponsive and she was pronounced dead at the scene.

A Knoxville man is in custody after breaking into a maintenance building at the Knoxville National Cemetery.

The break-in happened Wednesday afternoon, prompting an alarm to go off alerting Police. They found Christopher Novitzke walking around the building and with a latex glove.

He reportedly told them he worked at the cemetery but had no identification so he was taken into custody. He is charged with burglary.