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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.
Since the turn of the 20th century, various federal and state agencies have been involved in wildland fire management in one form or another. In the early 20th century, for example, the federal government, through the U.S. Army and the U.S. Forest Service, solicited fire suppression as a primary goal of managing the nation's forests.
A wildfire, forest fire, or a bushfire is an unplanned, uncontrolled and unpredictable fire in an area of combustible vegetation. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Depending on the type of vegetation present, a wildfire may be more specifically identified as a bushfire ( in Australia ), desert fire, grass fire, hill fire, peat fire, prairie fire, vegetation fire, or ...
Of the 47 originally closed state routes, 25 have reopened, according to a TDOT press release on Oct. 1. Seven of the 13 bridges originally closed also have been opened again.
A State Farm Insurance sign on a destroyed building during the Eaton Fire in Altadena, California, US, on Wednesday, Jan. 8, 2025. (Michael Nigro—Bloomberg)
Interstate 40 on the Tennessee-North Carolina border washed out. Other state bridges are gone. The roads through Sevier County, however, are intact. ... campgrounds and visitors centers closed ...
January 16–March 24—Australia—Power was cut to 200,000 people in Victoria when bushfires caused the state's electricity connection to the national grid to shut down. [90] April 26—Colombia—A nationwide blackout struck at approximately 10:15 am local time, caused by an undetermined technical failure at a substation in the capital ...
Wildfire suppression in the United States has had a long and varied history. For most of the 20th century, any form of wildland fire, whether it was naturally caused or otherwise, was quickly suppressed for fear of uncontrollable and destructive conflagrations such as the Peshtigo Fire in 1871 and the Great Fire of 1910.