The inferno in this east Tennessee Mountain town is something firefighters and residents had never imagined. Supt. Cassius m. Cash, Great Smoky Mountain National park service all the previous fires ive been part of could not have prepared me for what weve experienced over the past 24 hours. New video today shows some of the hundreds of buildings that were torched. More than 10thousand people evacuated as the flames ripped gatlinburg, nearby pigeon forge. And the dollywood resort were all evacuated. Cabins and homes are packed onto tiny winding roads in dense trees. The Drought Conditions in the southeast made conditions ripe to break out of control like they did through the night. Many residents barely had time to get themselves to safety. Much less grab their things. Resident we covered our face with wet towels and then we finally got in the car and we drove down the mountain a ways and we ran into a tree that was over the road so we had to turn eyes were stinging, so we just grabbed
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