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    The 2016 Great Smoky Mountains wildfires, also known as the Gatlinburg wildfires, were a complex of wildfires which began in late November 2016. Some...
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    the ridgeline of the Great Smoky Mountains, part of the Blue Ridge Mountains, which are a division of the larger Appalachian Mountain chain. The park contains...
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    The Great Smoky Mountains (Cherokee: ᎡᏆ ᏚᏧᏍᏚ ᏙᏓᎸ, Equa Dutsusdu Dodalv) are a mountain range rising along the Tennessee–North Carolina border in the southeastern...
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  • of notable wildfires. 2017 Knysna fires, South Africa 2021 Algeria wildfires 2021 Table Mountain fire, South Africa 2022 Moroccan wildfires 2024 Western...
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    Lee wave (redirect from Mountain wave)
    spread (including the 2016 Great Smoky Mountains wildfires when sparks from a wildfire in the Smoky Mountains were blown into the Gatlinburg and Pigeon...
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    2016 Washington wildfires, United States 2016 Great Smoky Mountains wildfires, United States 2016 Southeastern United States wildfires Anderson Creek Fire...
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    ceremony in Nashville on November 8, 2007. In response to the 2016 Great Smoky Mountains wildfires, Parton was one of a number of country music artists who...
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    immediate counseling following the 2016 Orlando nightclub shooting. In the aftermath of the 2016 Great Smoky Mountains wildfires, the Happy Hippie Foundation...
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    articles noted. List of disasters in the United States by death toll List of wildfires in the United States Category:Lists of tropical cyclones in the United...
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    Gatlinburg Bypass (category Great Smoky Mountains National Park)
    County, Tennessee, at the edge of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. It runs between the Great Smoky Mountains Parkway (U.S. Route 321/U.S. Route 441...
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    Mount Le Conte (Tennessee) (category Mountains of Great Smoky Mountains National Park)
    Mount Le Conte (or LeConte) is a mountain located within the Great Smoky Mountains National Park in Sevier County, Tennessee. At 6,593 ft (2,010 m) it...
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    Appalachian temperate rainforest (category Natural history of the Great Smoky Mountains)
    "catastrophic wildfires", and declines in the abundance of disturbance-dependent species like Table Mountain pine and woodpeckers. After the 2016 Great Smoky Mountains...
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    Pigeon Forge, Tennessee (category Communities of the Great Smoky Mountains)
    total population of 6,343. Situated just 5 miles (8 km) north of Great Smoky Mountains National Park, Pigeon Forge is a tourist destination that caters...
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  • The church and station were both destroyed in the November 2016 Great Smoky Mountains wildfires. The station returned to air in April 2017. "Facility Technical...
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  • people around Hardeman and Perry counties. 2016 November 28-December 9 – Wildfires in the Great Smoky Mountains, particularly in Pigeon Forge and Gatlinburg...
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    Gatlinburg, Tennessee (category Communities of the Great Smoky Mountains)
    It is a popular vacation resort, as it rests on the border of Great Smoky Mountains National Park along U.S. Route 441, which connects to Cherokee,...
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  • In November 2016 massive fires swept through the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, known as the 2016 Great Smoky Mountains wildfires. The fires killed...
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    The 2016 Southeastern United States wildfires were a series of wildfires in the Southeastern United States in October and November 2016. The U.S. Forest...
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  • 2021-03-26. "California spent nearly $1.8 billion last year fighting major wildfires". Los Angeles Times. 2018-03-01. Retrieved 2021-03-26. "Chile quake damage...
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    English Mountain is a mountain located in the northeastern foothills of the Great Smoky Mountains region of East Tennessee. Rising to a peak of 3,629...
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  • $100,000 in fundraising. This event has subsequently been held in September 2016 raising over $130,000, October 2017, and October 2018. In 2017, Microsoft...
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    ring name Tommy "Wildfire" Rich. He is a one time former National Wrestling Alliance World Heavyweight Champion and Smoky Mountain Wrestling Heavyweight...
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    Wears Valley, Tennessee (category Communities of the Great Smoky Mountains)
    situated in a valley known as Wear Cove, which runs parallel to the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Like other park border communities, the history and...
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    at noon Pacific) Sarah Anne Lloyd (28 August 2017), "A smoky haze returns to Seattle as wildfire burns in the Cascades / But it's not as thick as earlier...
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    States experienced a series of major wildfires in 2020. Severe August thunderstorms ignited numerous wildfires across California, Oregon, and Washington...
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  • 206 sightseeing helicopter crashes in the Smoky Mountains near Sevierville, Tennessee and Great Smoky Mountains National Park, killing all five on board...
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    snow as it is forced up and over the steep mountains. By the time it reaches the east side of the mountains, little moisture is left to bring to the desert...
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    Foehn wind (category Mountain meteorology)
    (2002). "Unexpected Warming Induced by Foehn Winds in the Lee of the Smoky Mountains". Weather and Forecasting. 17 (4): 907–915. Bibcode:2002WtFor..17....
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    ongoing smoky conditions and the risk of fire, we have taken the difficult decision to close the Tassajara 2016 guest season". Retrieved August 9, 2016. San...
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    literal translation is "snowy mountains", from sierra "a range of mountains", 1610s, from Spanish sierra "jagged mountain range", lit. "saw", from Latin...
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