Police SWAT officers keep an eye on the alley where Thomas Fee, 52, of Hutchinson, barricaded himself in a garage with a gun, causing a standoff with police on July 4, 2014, in Hutchinson, Kan. Fee was eventually taken into custody after two attempts at flooding him out with tear gas.
Patrick Vaughn, co-owner of the Von Bryan Estate, walks through three burned firefighting engines which fought the Hatcher Mountain/Indigo Lane wildfire at the property in Wears Valley, Tenn. Vaughn said the first responders narrowly escaped with their lives. The wildfire burned roughly 2,500 acres and affected 219 structures in the Great Smoky Mountains community.
Heavy smoke and large flames shoot into the sky as Knoxville Firefighters spray water from a ladder during a fire at Fort Loudon Waste & Recycling in North Knoxville, Tennessee on Wednesday, May 1, 2019.
A bystander watches as an automobile burns at the scene of a riot on Sherman Boulevard and Auer Street in Milwaukee, Wisconsin on August 13, 2016. The riot was the result of heated confrontations between police and protestors after an unarmed man was shot and killed by a police officer earlier in the day.
Milwaukee Police officers hide behind a tree and a home after gunshots were fired at the scene of a riot against police on Sherman Boulevard and Auer Avenue in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on Saturday, August 13, 2016. The riot was the result of heated confrontations between police and protestors after an unarmed man was shot and killed by a police officer earlier in the day.
Firefighters douse the flames with water from ladder trucks at a fire at the Loudon County Courthouse in Loudon, Tennessee on Tuesday, April 23, 2019. The building, which was built in the 1870's and listed on the National Register of Historic Places, was consumed almost entirely by flames Tuesday evening.
Jon Freeman, with Great Smoky Wildland Fire Module, monitors the behavior and direction of the fire during a prescribed burn in Cades Cove in Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Crews were burning roughly 440 aces to reduce shrub and tree intrusion, exotic plant species invasion and help maintain open meadows critical to the habitat of native wildlife.
A large sinkhole caused by a water main break opens up on Middle Dr. beside the Science and Engineering Research Facility on the UT-Knoxville campus in Knoxville, Tenn. There is currently no estimate on how long repairs could take.
Onlookers watch as the vacant Standard Knitting Mill catches fire outside downtown Knoxville, Tenn. on Sunday, Jan. 30, 2022. Three people were detained after a smaller fire at the complex earlier in the day. A second, more damaging fire in the evening sent flames and billowing smoke high into the sky.
Law enforcement responds to the scene of a deadly school shooting at Austin-East Magnet High School in Knoxville, Tenn. on Monday, April 12, 2021. A Knoxville Police officer fatally shot Anthony Thompson Jr. inside a bathroom after officers went to the school to arrest the teen on a domestic assault charge and found him holed up in the bathroom with a gun.
TWRA Sergeant Roy Smith, right, Knoxville Police officer Michael Cooper, and Clint Smith pull a small yearling black bear with catch pole from a tree after it was tranquilized at Morningside Park in Knoxville. The 100-pound yearling black bear was most likely displaced by its mother and wandered into the city in search for food, said a TWRA Sergeant Roy Smith.
Crews work in near white-out conditions at Mitchell International Airport in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on Dec 28, 2015. Crews were working hard to keep runways and terminals clear of snow in near white-out conditions, allowing a fair number of planes to take off and land despite several cancellations.
Truman Douglass and James Webster, both from Knoxville, pass by a flooded home next to the Sunoco on Ebenezer Road and Gleason Drive in Knoxville in February 2019.
The Oak Creek Police Department Honor Guard carries the casket of Jennifer Sebena to her final resting place at Wisconsin Memorial Park in Brookfield, Wisconsin, on December 29, 2012. Wauwatosa Police Officer Jennifer Sebena was shot and killed by her husband, Benjamin Sebena, while on duty Christmas Eve.
Workers administer tests at a COVID-19 testing site at the Tennessee Smokies baseball stadium in Kodak, Tenn. on Saturday, April 18, 2020. Corie Gouge, with the East Tennessee Regional Health Office, said the site was administering around 100 tests per hour.
Debbie Baker puts on shoes to begin cleaning up her backyard in the Iverness subdivision in Chattanooga, Tenn. on April 14, 2020. A EF-3 tornado tore through Hamilton County causing widespread damage and killing at least two people and sending at least 21 to hospitals.
Family, friends and loved ones mourn during a vigil for Johnkelian Mathis in Lonsdale Homes in Knoxville, Tenn. on Monday, Aug. 9, 2021. Mathis, a 17-year-old Austin-East Magnet High School student, was shot and killed early Sunday morning.
A woman weeps during a memorial for Evelyn Boswell outside of the Boswell family property on Muddy Creek Road in Blountville, Tenn. on Saturday, March 7, 2020. Authorities have discovered human remains believed to be that of Boswell, the missing 15-month-old toddler who was last seen in December.
Knox County Schools worker Lonnie Johnson sanitizes a classroom with an electrostatic sprayer at Brickey-McCloud Elementary in Knoxville, Tenn. on Friday, March 13, 2020. Knox County Schools, after closing due to coronavirus concerns, is disinfecting all of its 93 schools using different cleaning methods such as traditional wiping-down surfaces to using modern electrostatic sprayers.
A view down the Parkway in Gatlinburg, Tennessee on Saturday, March 28, 2020. Pedestrian and motor vehicle traffic was sparse during the afternoon following an urge by leaders in Sevier County asking tourists to stay away and businesses to close to fight the spread of the coronavirus.
Knoxville Police are seen during a standoff at a home on Ohio and McPherson streets in the Lonsdale neighborhood in Knoxville, Tenn. on Wednesday, July 7, 2021.