Senator Lamar Alexander spoke on the Senate floor on Tuesday about the Sevier County fires and his visit to East Tennessee last week to see the tornado damage in Polk and McMinn Counties.
He said, "Your character is measured not so much by how you handle things when things are going well, but how you handle adversity, and if that’s the measure of character, the character of the people of Gatlinburg and Sevier County is through the roof because they’re not complaining.
I salute the people of Sevier County and Gatlinburg for their courage and character and their compassion for one another.”