Jul 19, 2017 | News, News/PR
Western wildfires are the headline grabbers, but forests in the eastern United States are also fire-dependent and increasingly at risk because of fire exclusion, according to a researcher at Penn State University. “Many people have been lulled into believing that it...
May 5, 2017 | News, News/PR
National Wildfire Community Preparedness Day is Saturday, May 6, 2017, and state officials are asking Tennesseans to increase their preparedness for wildfires and take extra precautions to make their homes and communities safer. “Last fall Tennessee experienced...
Dec 9, 2016 | News, News/PR
When people and property are endangered, wildfires are viewed as calamities. And, indeed, to those directly affected, they can be deadly and devastating. But from Mother Nature’s point of view, wildfires play an integral role in the health of a forest by thinning...
Dec 2, 2016 | News, News/PR
Raging wildfires fueled by high winds forced of thousands of people in the U.S. South to flee and were believed to have wiped out an entire resort of more than 100 buildings in the Great Smoky Mountains as National Guard troops arrived early Tuesday to help...
Nov 30, 2016 | News, News/PR
Flames tore through the Great Smoky Mountains, killing at least three people, scorching hundreds of homes and businesses and sending more than 14,000 fleeing from the resort towns of Gatlinburg and Pigeon Forge. Tourists and residents scrambled Monday night and early...