A report issued by the National Park Service on Thursday gives a detailed timeline of the response by Great Smoky Mountains National Park officials to the Chimney Tops 2 fire after it started on ...

Why the dispatcher changed the location of the fire on second reference – from the Chimney Tops Picnic Area to “top of Chimneys somewhere” – or whether he was just confused, is not clear.

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WATE) — The Great Smoky Mountains National Park has released photos showing the extent of growth in the Chimney Tops area following the 2016 wildfire that burned most of the ...

The flames had leaped a mile the night before from the scraggly spires of the well-known peak to the Chimney Tops picnic area below and jumped two miles north to Bullhead Spur Ridge, on a line ...

This is the second fire burning in the same area of the Smokies, Bielenberg said. The Chimney Tops Fire began Nov. 23 on the north spire of the Chimney Tops, which lies in Tennessee, just over the ...

When the Chimney Tops 2 fire tore through the Great Smoky Mountains National Park in November 2016, it forced a 10-month closure of one of the park's most popular hiking trails.

A new interactive map shows the areas inside the perimeter of the Chimney Tops 2 Fire in Gatlinburg and the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. The fire forced more than 14,000 people to evacuate ...

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WATE) — The Great Smoky Mountains National Park has released photos showing the extent of growth in the Chimney Tops area following the 2016 wildfire that burned most of the ...