News Sentinel article about Gatlinburg fire – Wildfire Today. Don Jacobs of the Knoxville News Sentinel has written a well researched article about the Chimney Tops 2 Fire that burned into Gatlinburg, Tennessee on November 2. The fire was monitored but not suppressed for five days until a predicted wind event pushed the fire into the city, killing 1. Watch Good Morning, Vietnam Putlocker.

In addition to talking with Great Smoky Mountains National Park personnel in an attempt to determine what actions were taken on the fire, Mr. Jacobs interviewed four former wildland firefighters to gather information about how wildfires are typically managed. Below is the beginning of the article. You can read the entire piece here. Officials should have doused a 1. Great Smoky Mountains National Park days before high winds created a megafire that swept into Gatlinburg, former U.

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National Park should have summoned every resource available when alerted Nov. I’ve written for years that the best way to keep fires from becoming megafires is to attack them with overwhelming force, both on the ground and from the air,” said Bill Gabbert, who writes an online blog about wildland fires and aviation resources to battle wildland fires.“People say that is very expensive, but it is not as expensive as losing 1. Gabbert has written three articles on wildfiretoday.

Gatlinburg fires, providing technical data about fire conditions and aerial resources available to firefighters. Watch Penelope Online Mic. Four other former U. S. Forest Service firefighters agreed park officials didn’t pay attention to the severe drought, low humidity that provided a tinderbox for flames, available options to quell the slow- moving fire before winds made the flames uncontrollable and alarming weather forecasts. Mr. Jacobs quoted the park’s Superintendent, Clay Jordan, as saying: There was no way the fire could have been extinguished before the winds came.

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• Don Jacobs of the Knoxville News Sentinel has written a well researched article about the Chimney Tops 2 Fire that burned into Gatlinburg, Tennessee on November 28.