September 29, 2025 - Center Fire Department (CFD) personnel responded to a structure fire at around 3:30am Saturday, September 27, 2025, on Nacogdoches Street in Center.
The structure, located across the street from the Shelby County Jail in Center, was fully engulfed in flames behind a vacant residence.
Also a part of the fire was a large dead tree and fire personnel worked quickly to put down the fire with water and prevent spread to other structures in the immediate facility
No one was residing in the home at the time and Center Police Officers investigated at the scene.
Firefighters were directed to a fire at the 400 block of Maxwell Street in Center on Wednesday, September 24, 2025, at 4:04pm where a shed was on fire in front of a house. According to the CFD Nissan SUV was parked behind the shed and received some damage from the fire. Fire department personnel were able to extinguish the blaze and prevent further spread to the residence or structures on neighboring property.
A cause was not indicated; however, there was a pile of hot embers nearby from a trash fire.
A residence in the 700 block of County Road 1465 in the Mt. Gillion Community was the scene of a structure fire on September 20, 2025, when CFD personnel were dispatched at 6:45am after a neighbor of that residence called in a barn fire on the property. Upon arrival, firefighters discovered the structure to be fully involved in the fire, as well as a large dead pine tree.
The resident wasn’t home at the time of the fire, and a family member requested to let the building burn since the portable building had already collapsed and everything inside was lost. The firefighters left for the station at 8:15am.
Abundant Love Ministries, located at the intersection of Shelbyille Street and Loop 500 in Center, was called in by a passer-by as being on fire September 18, 2025, when the caller stated that the outside of Abundant Love Ministries church was on fire.
According to the CFD, upon arrival the fire was mostly out with no visible flames, little heat remaining. The booster line from the fire department’s pumper truck was used to cool the area.
The origin of the fire was determined to be an electrical box located behind the cross on the wall within the church. As a result of the fire the cross and brick wall was charred, and a small amount of plastic in the soffit was melted. A ventilation fan was used to clear remaining smoke from the structure.
According to church members at the scene the individual who called in the fire and put out the flames was a Matt Styles.
