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The fires claimed at least 14 lives, [5] [6] injured 190, [7] and is one of the largest arson caused fires in the history of Tennessee. [8] [9] [10] By December 12, the fires had burned more than 10,000 acres (15 square miles) inside the national park, and 6,000 acres in other parts of the area.
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 ...
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.
Mandatory evacuations were ordered in areas where strong winds and drought stoked fires in the area, the National Weather Service said in an advisory. Wildfires force evacuations in Tennessee ...
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.
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According to data in the 2012–2016 American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates conducted by the U.S. Census Bureau for Gatlinburg, [48] the median income for a household in Gatlinburg was estimated at $36,445, with an estimated median family income of $42,903. For individuals who were employed full-time, males had a median income of $30,159 ...
2016 US summer forecast: More 90-degree days than normal to scorch East; West to battle drought, fires. Peter Martinez. Updated July 14, 2016 at 10:51 PM. AccuWeather's 2016 US Summer Forecast.