![]() The firefighters said the wind is blowing at 80 miles per hour and the debris in the air is too hard to get us down right now. So sad for the livelihoods lost-but no injuries reported. Video looked like it was a pretty bad fire and they had already been working on it since about 6:30 this morning. A wildfire burning near the Great Smoky Mountains National Park in Sevier County, Tennessee, has grown to more than 3,700 acres and impacted more than 100 structures, County Mayor Larry Waters. This is next to (but probably safely away from) the Gatlinburg Inn. 7, 2022 at 7:54 AM PDT Additional information has not been released. According to WVLT its spreading to other businesses in the Towne Center Plaza. “They’ve had firefighters come in here and the firefighters told us for the time being it’s just too dangerous to evacuate,” he said. Crews respond to fire in downtown Gatlinburg Crews respond to fire in downtown Gatlinburg Updated: Oct. The report said the fire was an accident and caused around 7 million in damages. ![]() 9 that killed one person and injured another. An emergency shelter has been established at the Gatlinburg. (WVLT) - On Friday, Gatlinburg city officials released a report detailing the downtown fire on Oct. He said the emergency doors had come off the rollers, so smoke and embers were just coming up into the hotel and it was difficult to breath.įinally, firefighters were able to barricade the doors and Baker said they busted out windows in the upper floors of the hotel so that smoke could escape out of the top of the hotel. The city of Gatlinburg issued a mandatory evacuation for the Ownby Hills and Hidden Hill just before midnight Wednesday, March 30, 2022. “Then the flames came up into the parking lot and then told us we all had stay inside.”īaker said his family was in the lobby and didn’t know what was going on, but the hotel filled with smoke. “The only road to get down from the hotel, trees had fallen down in the road and were just engulfed in flames,” he said. He said fire came up to the parking lot of the hotel and firefighters told him it was not safe to leave. ![]() (WATE) Gatlinburg firefighters are actively working on hot spots following the major fire at a downtown restaurant. Logan Baker, a hotel guest who is at the hotel staying with his family, told News 2’s sister station, WATE, that when he checked-in the hotel was already starting to fill with smoke. Updated: / 12:48 AM EDT GATLINBURG, Tenn. ( WATE) – Dozens of people were trapped inside the Park Vista Hotel in Gatlinburg Monday night. The massive Dixie fire burning in Butte County, north of Sacramento, had ballooned to nearly 200,000 acres Monday morning, according to an incident report. ![]()
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