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imagine that the feeling of great loss is so palpable across the area now. we want to show you footage. a gentleman who took his own cell phone just to one of the 700 structures that were demolished in this raging, raging inferno. you see the chimney still stands here. the fire hit the communities of gatlinburg, pigeon force, and the surrounding areas adjacent to the great smoky mountains national park. there s so many areas that didn t get burned in the fire perimeter, but gatlinburg was in the center of the wildfire. what we ve done is calculated and compared the size so you at home can get an understanding of what the residents have had to deal with over the past week or so. this area that you see highlighted in the orange, that is the burn area.
there s a separate burn outside of the pigeon force area. look at the area, eeshl terrible to see. 27.9 square miles have burned so far with the chip me to top fire, the name for it. that is the amount of land consumed. if you compare manhattan, the size of manhattan which is roughly 23 square miles, the burn area is larger than that of manhattan, if you ve ever traveled to new york city, you know that is a large space to tomb in that period of time. talking to the residents and hearing some of the front accounts, this fire went from 35 acres at 5:00 in the morning to over 15,000 acres in such a short period of time. talking five to 12 hours even. we want to show some images before and after from digital