Mandatory evacuation order issued in Tennessee in response to fire
"We're currently putting in lines and doing structure protection," Tennessee Division of Forestry spokesperson Brook Smith said, according to the Knoxville News Sentinel."As the fire breaks those containment lines, we are pulling back and readjusting, and putting in new lines. The wind is making this fire very hard to manage."have posted evacuation maps for residents and Red Cross volunteers have been put on standby.
Goodhue recounted that a state trooper told him to turn around and not attempt to continue traveling home Wednesday after the evacuation order was implemented. He said he watched the fire from afar and spoke with a crying man who saw his home of 34 years burn, which he called"heartbreaking." "Things can be replaced, people can’t," he said."I'm just really hoping everybody came off the mountain."Other fires were reported in Tennessee on Wednesday, including one in Anderson County Wednesday afternoon, and one in Bradley County that was completely contained early Thursday morning.
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