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Matt Shafer Powell is Director of News Content for WUOT, the public radio station in Knoxville, Tennessee
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Tennessee wildfire devastates local economy Wildfires are common in America's arid West, but not in the humid Great Smoky Mountains of Tennessee. Now 14,000 people have been evacuated from the resort town of Gatlinburg. Matt Shafer Powell is Director of News Content at WUOT , public radio for Knoxville, 35 miles away.
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