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Burning up homes, cabins, businesses and resorts. This is what a city on fire looks like. The mayor of gatlinburg believes more than 100 structures are now damaged, including his own home, likely destroyed. Adding to the loss of life, burn victims in critical condition. A historic drought and Hurricane Force winds have fueled these flames. Burning embers have blown and spread for mile. High winds knocking down trees, trees hitting power lines falling on this very dry, extreme drought like conditions and everything was catching on fire. Reporter thousands forced to evacuate. Many taking shelter...

Been so far. That is how we roll wrap up the month today. These temperatures already way above average by about 10 degrees. Low 70s tampa, 71 moving down toward venice. The dewpoints very sticky, middle and upper 60s. 70 degrees plant city. It is muggy and that is why it is so warm this morning. The southeast winds wind air. Will see gusts up above 20 milesperhour. Max defender 8 quiet this morning. We could track a few stray showers this afternoon with High Temperatures up around 83 degrees. We will wafer slightly better chances tomorrow before the week cold front arrives. Half the end of the...

Takes awhile to kick in. It sounds like a major problem. Reporter it could have been a major problem. Today it was a routine upgrade that didnt work. In between a window of several minutes where if you called 911, your call could have been in limbo. We were doing a routine hot fix on our software. Reporter thats like you and i updating our smart phones, and just after 10 00 this morning, the 911 system at the Public Safety building crashed. Reporter is there a backup plan when updating technology . There is. Reporter did it work today . The contingency plan worked today. Reporter the contingen...