Gatlinburg fire. Heartbreak. The day of the 2016 Gatlinburg wildfires, I was working all day, I recorded many scenes. Thick smoke and extreme wind. This is a 7 minute documentary through my eyes.
I was working my job as a cabin inspector throughout many parts of Sevier County that day, the smoke got thicker, and the wind got stronger as the day went on.
No one expected how this day would end and what we would see afterward. In the aftermath, I found it very hard to take pictures of so many empty spaces, cabins I had inspected just a week or 2 before. I was the last person to ever walk into some of them.
Precious lives lost. Entire resorts, gone. I decided that these empty spaces deserved more than simple photos, so I took my photos from before the fires, and show the before and after of these beautiful places.
Locations for Historical Reference:
0:16 East Parkway heading toward downtown Gatlinburg
0:28 Pigeon Forge Parkway driving south toward the Spur
0:33 Intersection of Dudley Creek Rd and 321
0:48 Park Vista Way, Gatlinburg
1:00 Cobbly Nob appox 4pm November 28, 2016, winds were extremely strong.
1:24 Cobbly Nob cabin (day of the fire, on November 28, 2016, around 3pm-4pm. Just hours before the fire spread to this area.)
1:34 Cobbly Nob exact location of cabin that was lost to wildfire at 1:24, later, when we were allowed to re-enter the area.
1:37 - 2:04 Campbell Lead Rd. condos, before and after
2:07 the Spur heading to Gatlinburg after
2:15 Northstar Way, Sevierville
2:30 Loop Rd and Roaring Fork intersection, Gatlinburg
2:39 Westgate Resort, Gatlinburg
2:45 - 3:05 Chalet Village area, Gatlinburg
3:10 Starr Crest Drive, before fires
3:15 -4:38 Starr Crest Drive after fires
4:40 - 5:14 Loop Rd, passing ruins of Roaring Fork Baptist Church on the right
5:20 Turning onto Roaring Fork Rd.
5:38 Somewhere near Cartertown Rd., Gatlinburg
5:49 Westgate Resort
5:55 approx 626 Park Vista Way - shows black bear before fires
6:00 approx 626 Park Vista Way, after fires
6:09 Before - Looking up toward Mountain Stream Way, Gatlinburg
6:14 After - Looking up toward Mountain Stream Way, Gatlinburg
6:19 Before - Great Smoky Way, Gatlinburg
6:23 After - Great Smoky Way, Gatlinburg
6:33 -6:38 Forrest Springs Drive area, Gatlinburg
6:40 Banner Baptist Church, Beech Branch Rd., Gatlinburg
6:52 Westgate Resort rainbow before the fires, i took this in 2015 when I was working there
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