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One of the largest wildfires was the Chimney Tops 2 Fire, which burned more than 10,000 acres, and closed the Chimney Tops Trail. [11] The Great Smoky Mountains wildfires were the deadliest wildfires in Tennessee, [12] as well as the deadliest wildfires in the eastern U.S. since the Great Fires of 1947, which killed 16 people in Maine.
On November 28, the Chimney Tops 2 fire in the Chimney Tops of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park spread with the aid of strong winds and dry conditions, the fire quickly broke into multiple fires and spread across the mountains above and around Gatlinburg. By the evening hours the fire had reached the downtown area of Gatlinburg ...
2016 – The Gatlinburg Fire began as a wildfire in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, and spread into the town of Gatlinburg, Tennessee, killing 14. [citation needed] 2016 – A fire started in a ramen shop burned 140 buildings in Itoigawa, Japan. 2017 – October 2017 Iberian wildfires.
Victims of a deadly 2016 wildfire that began in Great Smoky Mountains National Park before it burned through a Tennessee tourist town will have another chance to seek compensation from the federal ...
Gatlinburg Bypass. Foothills Parkway West (from Look Rock to Highway 129) ... right off of Interstate 40 near the Tennessee state line. The fire is now at 1,740 acres and is over 40% contained, ...
A new opinion from the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals has potentially given the victims from the 2016 Gatlinburg wildfire a new way to sue the federal government over how it handled the blaze.
Smoke fills the air and surrounds businesses and resorts in the wake of a wildfire on Nov. 30, 2016 in downtown Gatlinburg, Tennessee. Thousands of people have been evacuated from the area and ...
Gatlinburg is a mountain resort city in Sevier County, Tennessee. It is located 39 miles (63 km) southeast of Knoxville and had a population of 3,944 at the 2010 Census [ 7 ] and a U.S. Census population of 3,577 in 2020. [ 8 ]