It’s years later, but large swaths of forest, burned in November 2016, have yet to heal. Some scars heal with the passage of time. Others, however, stay with us. Gatlinburg burned the night of Nov. 28, 2016. Extraordinarily dry conditions, combined with a wind storm with hurricane-like power and a problematic fire in a hard to reach spot at the Chimney Tops, to create hell on one of the prettiest places on God’s Earth. In the months and years following the fires, a fuller picture emerged.
