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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.
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 ...
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 Samuels Keg Factory and the Knoxville Woolen Mills were located along the railroad tracks at the north end of Ramsey's Addition. [4] With a need for city services, and bureaucratic issues preventing annexation by Knoxville, the Fort Sanders area incorporated as the separate city of West Knoxville on March 8, 1888.
1891 – H. T. Hackney Company in business. 1892 – St. John's Cathedral rebuilt. 1896 - Flag of Knoxville, Tennessee is designed; 1897 "Million Dollar Fire" destroys part of Gay Street. [6] Market House rebuilt on Market Square. [4] North Knoxville (modern Old North Knoxville) becomes part of city; 1898
Knoxville crews fight a July 5 fire at 1946 Ohio Ave. A Knoxville Fire Department spokesman said the fire was started by fireworks. KFD was dispatched to a house fire at 1946 Ohio Ave., where a ...
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]