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To The Moon, the eastern Tennessee regional burn, is held each June on at Catoosa Event Center on the Cumberland Plateau. As an all-ages burn which abides by the Ten Principles, TTM applied for and received sanctioned status by Burning Man in its second year, 2017. The burn has grown from 550 participants in 2016 to just under 1000 in 2018 ...
Cover of Harper's Weekly, showing the bridge-burning conspirators swearing allegiance to the American flag. The East Tennessee bridge burnings were a series of guerrilla operations carried out during the American Civil War by Southern Unionists in Confederate-held East Tennessee in 1861.
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In Monroe County, a resident was arrested for starting a burn on personal property, against the burn ban, that got out of control. [17] The Tennessee Division of Forestry reported 64 fires had burned 17,734 acres. The largest was in Morgan County in the White Oak Circle area covered about 1,900 acres.
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Any burn permit previously issued in Haywood County is now void and the burn ban is in place until further notice. Violating the burn ban can result in up to a $250 fine.
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. [13] [14] In addition, the fires were also the deadliest and most destructive of the 2016 Southeastern United States wildfires.
The Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) is the primary utility in Tennessee which generates electricity and sells it to hundreds of local utilities and industrial customers. [2] Like most of the US, the sources used to generate power in Tennessee have changed substantially in the last decade.