The Gatlinburg Firefighters Association has established the Gatlinburg Public Safety Employees Wildfire Relief Fund to aid those Gatlinburg Firefighters and Police Officers who lost their homes and contents in the fire, which in part spread from the Great Smoky Mountains National Park into the eastern Tennessee resort city of Gatlinburg.
The fire burned about 1,000 buildings in Sevier County, including hundreds in Gatlinburg, killed 13 people and injured about 85 people.
Donations should be made payable to The Gatlinburg Public Safety Employees Wildfire Relief Fund, Account # 1090021864. Donations may be mailed to
Smartbank, ATTN: Gatlinburg Public Safety Employees Wildfire Relief Fund,
PO Box 1910, Pigeon Forge Tennessee 37868.
Electronic transfers may be sent to Smartbank. The routing number for this fund is 064209216.
For additional information contact Kandra McCarter Phone: (865) 936-7130; Daniel Lindbert (865) 430-8687 or David Puckett (865) 712-0726
www.gatlinburgwildfirerelief.com is the OFFICIAL RESOURCE for information, management, control, logistics, and communications for all Gatlinburg and Pigeon Forge relief efforts.
