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A few hours after the Pigeon Forge fire, brush fires in the Windrock Road, Frost Bottom Road and Stoney Flat areas in Anderson County were reported Nov. 16. The 130-acre fire in Anderson County ...
A more than a century-old building at East Tennessee's only historically Black college burned down Monday. Here's what we know about what caused the Knoxville College fire.
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 .
The Nov. 4 fire - visible from downtown Knoxville - destroyed a building on an unused campus already struggling to rebuild its programming. Knoxville College's loss of historic Elnathan Hall to ...
An extension of this road was completed in 1951 to serve Neyland Stadium, and a freeway loop around Downtown Knoxville was proposed that same year. The eastern portion of this freeway loop, which was initially known as the Downtown Loop, became the controlled-access part of SR 158, and was constructed in three segments between 1963 and 1973.
The Knoxville Fire Department can trace its beginnings to 1854 when Town Marshal J.D. Stacks saw the need for an organized volunteer fire department. [3] But it was in March 1885 when the city of Knoxville formed a full-time, paid fire department. By the turn of the century, the number of firefighters in the department had grown to 30. [3]
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Radio towers atop Sharp's Ridge. Sharp's Ridge is a steep ridge in Knoxville, Tennessee, north of the city's downtown.A 111-acre (45 ha) area of the 7-mile (11 km) ridge is maintained as Sharp's Ridge Memorial Park, a city park dedicated to the honor of the area's war veterans.