WATCH NOW: TEMA, Gatlinburg officials provide update on East TN fires
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Posted by: Matt Boster
Date: Nov 29 2016 10:08 AM
GATLINBURG, TN (WMC) -Gatlinburg, Tennessee, and surrounding areas are being evacuated due to wildfires in the Smoky Mountains. Gatlinburg and Pigeon Forge have called evacuations as ash pours from the sky over the cities.
Tennessee Emergency Management Agency declared a Level III State of Emergency for the affected area.
TEMA said hundreds of homes were damaged or destroyed as of Tuesday morning. An estimated 14,000 visitors and residents have been evacuated.
According to TEMA, four people have been hospitalized in Nashville and Knoxville with burns.
An emergency notification was issued by the Sevier County Emergency Management Agency.
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