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The cause of the fire is not known, officials said.
The Tennessee Department of Agriculture said the welcome center is still open, and firefighters are staged nearby to protect it if needed.
Right now the wild fire is threatening about 30 structures, some of which may be residential. State Forestry Division Spokesman Tim Phelps said so far there have been no evacuations.
According to Cocke County Fire Department, firefighters have been working to contain the fire since 1 p.m. Thursday.
Last night, responders estimated about 360 acres were on fire. It s unclear how large the fire is now, but Phelps said it s definitely over 100 acres.
Remember that day earlier this month when it was quite smoky outside? It turns out the smoke wasn t coming from Oak Ridge.
According to the model, smoke from prescribed burns on the Department of Energy s Oak Ridge Reservation traveled north and east, bypassing Knox, Roane and Blount counties.
Tim Phelps, spokesman for Tennessee s Forestry Division, said the state believes the clouds of smoke seen during the day were from a number of large scale prescribed burns conducted across a wide region to the south of Knoxville on April 5.
According to the National Weather Service, thousands of acres were planned to be burned in northwest Georgia, northeast Alabama and southeast Tennessee. Phelps said smoke from the large fires and wildfires may have lifted into the atmosphere and traveled to the Knoxville area, where it settled overnight.
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An increase in white oak poaching comes amid popularity of Tennessee, Kentucky booze
Updated 8:18 PM;
Ben Benton; Chattanooga Times Free Press, Tenn. (TNS)
Apr. 4 When National Park Service Ranger Justin Young saw the stark stump of a poached white oak tree on the slopes of Lookout Mountain last fall, it wasn’t the first theft of the species he’d seen.
Over the last several years, Young has investigated a few thefts involving large trees, but the last two involved white oaks, at least one of which was far more than a century old, cut down inside the Chattanooga city limits.