Wildfire & Evacuation Information - Stay informed

There's currently a lot of information to juggle right now.    We are posting Evacuation Information for our local area on our Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/CountryGold/.  Scroll through all the most recent posts for the latest information.  

There's too much information to post on our website AND social media.  Social media is much better for distributing "alert" type information rapidly enabling following to hit the "SHARE" button to alert their friends and family as well. 

Check with WKRK's Facebook, your other local media outlets, the Facebook pages of your local Health Department, Sheriff's Office, Emergency Management, and Fire & Rescue offices for more details.  Don't let us be your sole source of information.   You might find fresher information on another page listed below.  We are trying our best to keep our page updated, but there's a lot of information in different places.  This is a public service on our part.   Your safety is much more important than our ratings, so you'll see some of our competitors listed.  We appreciate their good work and dedication to our community.

The more informed you can make yourself, the better.  So please take time to search for the latest updates from various sources.  Some of the maps may be hard to read.  You may find a Google maps search to be helpful locating some of the areas mentioned.   We don't really have fancy map-making software here at the radio station.

If you are an Emergency Official or County PIO (Public Information Officer) needing to get urgent information to the public, we ask that you email press releases to news@country.am.

SOURCES WE HAVE FOUND OFFERING TIMELY UPDATES ON WILDFIRE SITUATION:  
We will add more as we locate new sources of information.

REGIONAL

Incident Information System - North Carolina Fires

Incident Information System - Georgia Fires

Incident Information System - Tennessee Fires

BIA (Bureau of Indian Affairs) Forestry & Wildfire Management - Eastern Region

Boteler and Nantahala Branch Fires

Georgia Forestry Commission

Maple Springs/Old Roughy Fire

NC Forest Service

Tennessee Department of Agriculture

US Forest Service Chattahoochee-Oconee National Forests

US Forest Service National Forests in North Carolina

CHEROKEE COUNTY, NC

Cherokee County NC Emergency Management

Cherokee County NC Health Department

NC State Extension Cherokee County Center

Town of Andrews

WCNG/WCVP Radio (Murphy NC) -  Our friends

WKRK Radio (Murphy NC) - Our radio station

CLAY COUNTY, NC

Clay County NC Health Department

Clay County NC Sheriff's Office 

Clay County Progress

NC State Extension Clay County Center

GRAHAM COUNTY, NC

Graham County Health Department

Graham County Fire Department

Graham County Sheriff's Office

Graham Star Newspaper

FANNIN COUNTY, GA

Fannin County Emergency Management Agency
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GILMER COUNTY​, GA

Gilmer County GA Public Safety

Gilmer County GA Sheriff's Office

MACON COUNTY, NC

Macon County News

Macon County Public Health

Macon County Sheriff's Office 

Macon Media News, Weather and Information

WNCC Radio (Franklin NC)

MONROE COUNTY, TN

Monroe County Sheriff's Office

POLK COUNTY, TN

Polk County 911 Emergency Communication District

West Polk County Volunteer Fire and Rescue

SWAIN COUNTY, NC​

Swain County Emergency Services

Swain County Sheriff's Office

TOWNS COUNTY, GA

Towns County GA Sheriff's Office

UNION COUNTY, GA

Union County Fire Rescue & EMA

Union County GA Sheriff's Office

OTHER MEDIA SOURCES​

Smoky Mountain News

The Sylva Herald Newspaper

WLOS TV (Asheville NC)

WRGC Radio

The Asheville Citizen-Times

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