On Tuesday, standing outside in the rain, he seemed more grateful than distraught. He has no idea if it worked Owenby fled to an emergency shelter. “And as it grew closer, we were watering the house down, packing, stowing stuff in the car, trying to get the animals.” “You could see the fire coming down the ridge,” Owenby told HLN. His final memories of his home included dousing it with water to try to save it from the raging inferno. Gary Owenby was born and raised in Gatlinburg. Michael Patrick/Knoxville News Sentinel/USA TODAY/Sipa Wildfires have burned businesses and vehicles such as these in Gatlinburg. “We’re not sure if our place will still be there or not,” Bearden said, They’re not sure when they’ll be able to go home. The couple is now staying at an evacuation shelter. “There was fire out of both sides … it was crossing the street, ” Benzschawel said. Along the way, they saw a nightmarish scene outside the car windows. The couple rushed into the back of a patrol car and police drove them to safety. 7xnDDs53Ij- Nick Valencia November 29, 2016 What they're wearing is all they have left. #Gatlinburg residents Mark Benzschawel & Denise Bearden barely escaped the fires last night. “As soon as I looked out the window to see who it was, there was just fire surrounding us.” “We know that if they wouldn’t have woke us up, we’d probably be dead,” Benzschawel said. Luckily, police pounded on their door just in time. 8AcW0LJiep- Kat Jones-Shank November 29, 2016ĭenise Bearden and her fiancé Mark Benzschawel were asleep when the wildfire burned dangerously close to their home. Michael and son are safe, wife and girls are missing. My friends in #Gatlinburg last seen in devastated Chalet Village just before fire. “That was the last time I talked to her,” he said. But he wasn’t able to be there to help his wife and daughters – a painful memory still haunts him. Monday, Constance called to tell him “there were flames across the street from our house, and she didn’t know what to do,” Reed said, his voice quivering. “We got stuck in traffic at that point, and they wouldn’t let us turn around,” he said.Ī few minutes after 8 p.m. When Reed heard about the wildfire, he and his son tried to drive back to town. The blaze spread quickly and with little warning. “We’re just hoping for a miracle,” Reed told CNN affiliate WATE-TV in Knoxville on Tuesday. It’s not certain whether his wife, Constance, 34 along with daughters Chloe, 12 and Lily, 9, fled the house in time. The wildfires sweeping the eastern part of the state – which claimed three lives in separate locations – engulfed Reed’s Gatlinburg home while he and his 15-year-old son Nicholas were away. Michael Reed can’t find his wife and two daughters after being caught in last night’s evacuation mayhem near Gatlinburg, Tennessee.
0 kommentar(er)
