115 Johnson Road

By: Beverly Majors Oak Ridger Staff
beverly.majors@oakridger.com

A former Oak Ridge resident was arrested Wednesday for arson, eight months after a fire destroyed the home she and her children were living in on Johnson Road.

Oak Ridge police served a warrant on Tammy Renee Marcum, 37, 754 N. Country lane, Kodak, charging her with aggravated arson, two counts of reckless endangerment and filing a false police report.

Marcum Court records said Marcum allegedly set fire to the flat-top home she was living in at 115 Johnson Road. Records said she set fire to the living room of the house and used kerosene as an accelerate the blaze.

Marcum's two daughters, Ceaira Marcum, 17, and Callie Marcum, 10, were both asleep inside the house when the fire was set. Marcum and the girls escaped from the home and were not injured.

According to the warrant, firefighters found a kerosene container at the scene.

Marcum reported the fire and told officers at the scene that an intruder had assaulted her and set the fire. She later recanted that story and admitted to setting the fire, records said.

Marcum told officers she set the fire in an attempt to possibly commit suicide and implicate her former husband in the incident.


*** We used to live in that house years ago.. It was a small cute cottage type of house.. We lived there for a year before moving to Clinton when Granny and Gramps bought the house and let us move in the house in Clinton.. Now that house has been demolished and cleared.. I have no idea if they will build another house or not..