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captioning sponsored by cbs this is the cbs evening news with scott pelley. o donnell: good evening. scott is off tonight. i m norah o donnell. 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: you re watching cell phone video taken taen 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, turninturning into hurricane-foe winds that topped 87 miles per hour. fire quickly spread in this drought-stricke ....
captioning sponsored by cbs this is the cbs evening news with scott pelley. o donnell: good evening. scott is off tonight. i m norah o donnell. 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 hit the gas! hit the gas! reporter: you re watching cell phone video taken taen 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, turninturning into hurricane-foe fire quickly spread in this drought-stricken area when burning embers blew and toppleled tr ....
captioning sponsored by cbs this is the cbs evening news with scott pelley. o donnell: good evening. scott is off tonight. i m norah o donnell. 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 hit the gas! hit the gas! reporter: you re watching cell phone video taken taen 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, turninturning into hurricane-foe drought-stricken area when burning embers blew and toppleled trees ripped down power lines. ....
bucket to do it once, but when you do it 17 million times, it really has an impact. captioning sponsored by cbs this is the cbs evening news with scott pelley. o donnell: good evening. scott is off tonight. i m norah o donnell. 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 for dolly parton, was spared. demarco morgan is in tennessee. hit the gas! hit the gas! reporter: you re watching cell phone video taken taen 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, winds that topped 87 miles per hour. fire quickly spread in this drought-stricken area ....
captioning sponsored by cbs this is the cbs evening news with scott pelley. o donnell: good evening. scott is off tonight. i m norah o donnell. 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! reporter: you re watching cell phone video taken taen 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, turninturning into hurricane-foe winds that topped 87 miles per drought-stricken area when burning embers blew and toppleled tre ....