Deze morgen (Memphis tijd) brak vuur uit in het voormalige huis van Elvis langs Audubon Drive. Gelukkig was na een halfuurtje bluswerk alles onder controle en bleef de schade eerder beperkt.
Toch werd een groot gedeelte van de binnenkant vernield. Het officële luidde als volgt:
Bron: The commercial appeal/Memphis
A fire broke out Saturday morning at the former home of Elvis Presley on Audubon Drive.
Memphis Fire Lt. Wayne Cooke said the department responded to the home just after 7:30 a.m. The fire was under control by 7:52, he said.
Fire personnel were still on the scene at 11 a.m. Cooke said he did not have an estimate on how much damage the house sustained.
The cause was electrical, he said, and started in the wall between the living room and dining room. The home was unoccupied and undergoing renovations.