Posted on 11/29/2016 10:54:44 AM PST by yoe
GATLINBURG More than 150 homes and businesses lay in smoking ruins Tuesday after wildfire flames whipped by high-speed winds raged overnight through town and displaced more than 14,000 residents, officials estimated.
"This is a fire for the history books," Gatlinburg Fire Chief Greg Miller said at a morning news conference. "The likes of this has never been seen here. But the worst is definitely over with."
More than 200 firefighters from across the state remain on the way to help douse the wildfires, and the Tennessee Army National Guard plans to dump water onto the flames from a helicopter, with at least three Blackhawk helicopters standing by.
About 100-125 Guardsmen are on the ground in Sevier County with more on the way, Capt. Chris Poulopoulos said.
"We've got guys still volunteering to come," he said. "Visibility was too low to fly this morning, but we should be flying soon."
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Most of the town is intact. The real destruction is the outlying cabins and homes, over 100 appear to have been destroyed.
Human scumbag.
The people will rebuild and get on with their lives (and maybe be a little stronger)...that guy will always be the a-hole who took delight in other people’s suffering.
Well, I am anxiously awaiting the San Andreas ridding this great country of the scourge they call Mexifornia.
PROVERBS 17:5
Those who mock the poor insult their Maker; those who rejoice at the misfortune of others will be punished.
TOBIAS will get his if he doesn’t repent.
New Jersey needs a few more Hurricane Sandys Wash that dirty place out to sea
My wife had a sentimental attachment to the place from visiting there as a kid 40-50 years ago. I couldn’t stand the place 30 years ago.
Good luck to all harmed by this event.
Tennessee Lives Matter! When does the looting begin? s/
What do you mean? I lived in TN for 13 years but haven’t been to east TN for decades.
***Well, I am anxiously awaiting the San Andreas ridding this great country of the scourge they call Mexifornia.***
This is the same hate crap we the Hillary loves spout.
Yes, the worst is over. A fire needs fuel, an oxidizing agent, and heat to burn. The fire seems to be running out of fuel.
LOL, agreed...NY too. Most of the NE would be ideal.
You love Hillary’s spout? It’s dark humor, get a grip snowflake.
How does he know for sure that any of these “rich” people
voted for TRUMP? He doesn’t. - Those chalets over
Gatlinburg are really mostly quite modest in truth. We have
spent quite a bit of time up there in years past & found
it always lovely and really simple. We’ve rented chalets &
cabins. It’s a fairly long drive up there; so we have gone
to Townsend mostly in these past few years. Now, the drive
is too long for old people. DON’T BE A GROUCH BUTT!!!
It’s beautiful up there. SO BEAUTIFUL!
Let's find Tobias, conservative America. Let's find him.
Send that to Drudge and InfoWars...Paul Joseph Watson HATES scumbags...
Who cares what some ghetto trash thinks. Just another black-wannabee racist.
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