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This is the cbs evening news with scott pelley. Odonnell good evening. Scott is off tonight. Im norah odonnell, and this is our western edition. The worst fire to hit tennessee in 100 years has killed at least three people and sent more than a dozen to the hospital. 14,000 fled, as a wall of flames closed in on gatlinburg. One resort was destroyed. The dollywood theme park, named for dolly parton, was spared. Demarco morgan is in tennessee. Hit the gas hit the gas reporter youre watching cell phone video taken by two brothers as they escape from a vacation resort area in the mountains of gatlinburg, tennessee. They say they had no warning as the wall of flames surrounded them last night, and their only choice was to ride through it or die. Please, lord, let us get off this mountain. Reporter by early evening, wind speeds suddenly doubled, turning into hurricaneforce winds that topped 87 miles per hour. Fires quickly spread in this droughtstricken area when burning embers blew and toppl ....