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Imagine that the feeling of great loss is so palpable across the area now. we want to show you footage. a gentleman who took his own cell phone just to one of the 700 structures that were demolished in this raging, raging inferno. you see the chimney still stands here. the fire hit the communities of gatlinburg, pigeon force, and the surrounding areas adjacent to the great smoky mountains national park. there's so many areas that didn't get burned in the fire perimeter, but gatlinburg was in the center of the wildfire. what we've done is calculated and compared the size so you at home can get ...

There's a separate burn outside of the pigeon force area. look at the area, eeshl terrible to see. 27.9 square miles have burned so far with the chip me to top fire, the name for it. that is the amount of land consumed. if you compare manhattan, the size of manhattan which is roughly 23 square miles, the burn area is larger than that of manhattan, if you've ever traveled to new york city, you know that is a large space to tomb in that period of time. talking to the residents and hearing some of the front accounts, this fire went from 35 acres at 5:00 in the morning to over 15,000 acres in such...

>> d.k., thank you very much. really interesting points. >> thank you, erin. paula deen resurrecting her fallen empire. he's opening her first restaurant since admitting to using the "n" word. her kitchen restaurant will open this summer in pigeon forge, tennessee. outfront tonight is the mayor of pigeon force. paula deen and pigeon forge, why? >> i think it fits. we're excited about what they're bringing to our town. any time that we can add to our product mix to give something to our loyal visitors who come back here year in and year out and also to get in front of new people, we're excite...

As they're watching nearby mountains burn. it's extraordinary. this video here was shot by a man who was trying to escape the area. multiple cities are under evacuation orders and many cabins near dollywood have been told to get out. the issue is some of them can't. we have more from gatlinburg. >> communities in pigeon forge and gatlinburg under a mandatory evacuation order this morning because 30 homes and businesses have been burnt to the ground by this fire, and officials are believing this may be a case of arson. >> oh, my god. it's so hot. >> overnight, desperate attempts to escape a mas...