Remembering Gatlinburg Victims

People in Tennessee are just beginning to pick up the pieces after flames tore through Gatlinburg claiming lives and displacing thousands from their homes.
Local minister Darlene Carroll lived in Gatlinburg for years. Just last night she finally heard from her 80-year-old mother who still lives there with her sister. They live about five minutes from the foot of Gatlinburg, just far enough away to be untouched by the flames.
Carroll says thankfully they were not displaced, but some of her good friends were not so lucky. She tells News 25 it is devastating to see the place she called home for so many years go down in flames. “It’s the most beautiful sight you’ve ever seen. To see it on fire, it’s just, I’m a minister and I don’t want to ever question God, you’re not supposed to do that, but a part of me, I just don’t understand. There’s still so many people missing and not accounted for and every day that goes by you pray. It doesn’t look good for them though, but you pray.”
In Gatlinburg, there have been 14 confirmed deaths and more than 200 still missing.