Multi-agency panel to review deadly Tennessee wildfire

  • Source: Knoxville News Sentinel
  • Published: 01/18/2017 12:00 AM

Great Smoky Mountains National Park Superintendent Cassius Cash said a team that will review the forest fires that spread from the park into Gatlinburg and beyond has been activated and “should be here in the next week or two.” Fed by near-hurricane-force winds, the flames swept through Sevier County on Nov. 28 from a fire that was first detected near the top of the park’s Chimney Tops trail 5.5 miles away on Nov. 23. Fourteen people died and more than 2,400 structures in the city of Gatlinburg were damaged or destroyed. Cash said he had not received word on who the team members are or the number, but explained the composition of the group. His comments came during a Friday morning interview with the News Sentinel.



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