First person account of Gatlinburg: City like ‘apocalyptic wasteland’

Brandon Reese walked across the road toward the River Edge Motor Lodge, the bottoms of his shoes melting on the asphalt. Smoke rolled off the pool outside. Reese spent the night in Gatlinburg with his partner, MegAn Johnson-Brown, documenting the Great Smoky Mountains wildfire as it tore across the beloved resort town Monday night and into Tuesday morning. Click to the link to this and other stories from the Knoxville News Sentinel about the tragedy in the Smokies.