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In 2010, a member of the Cranick family of Obion County was burning trash near the family home, when it got out of control and caught the house on fire. They called 911, but the fire department refused to respond, because the Cranicks weren't on the list as having paid the tax.
Centralia councilman Joseph Tighe proposed a different hypothesis: that Centralia's coal fire was actually started by an adjacent coal-seam fire that had been burning west of Centralia's. His belief is that the adjacent fire was at one time partially excavated, but nonetheless, it set alight the landfill on May 27. [7]
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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 .
High winds can cause fires to expand significantly but also blow down power lines, leading to more fires.
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I looked at the history file of this page and noticed that attempts were made to insert a section about what is the town's most nationally-recognized point of history, the Gene and Pauline Cranick fire. This sections does not exist. Can someone offer a compelling reason why this is the case? Lothar76 21:51, 27 June 2012 (UTC)