Fires still burn as rain falls in Gatlinburg.
(CNN)The
pictures coming out of the Gatlinburg, Tennessee, wildfires are just
devastating. Acres of woodland blackened. Row upon row of homes and
businesses reduced to ashes.
But a TV crew with CNN affiliate WVLT
spotted something of a miracle amid all that destruction. On Wednesday,
reporter Kelsey Leyrer and her team captured footage of what they saw
at a house out in Sevier County. It was a statue of Jesus -- covered
with soot and ashes, but still standing. It was the only thing left
after the home burned to the ground.
The
Jesus statue was the second religious item this week that survived the
wildfires. Earlier this week Isaac McCord, an employee at the Dollywood
theme park, says he found a partially burned page from the Bible's book of Joel. The part of the passage that's readable, from Joel's first chapter
reads, "O LORD, to thee will I cry: for the fire hath devoured the
pastures of the wilderness, and the flame hath burned all the trees of
the field."
McCord immediately took
a picture of what he'd found and posted it to Facebook, where it's been
shared tens of thousands of times. Many commenters took it as a sign
from God.
"It provides hope and faith," McCord said. "That's why I shared it."
At least seven people have lost their lives in the wildfires that have ravaged Sevier County and Gatlinburg this week.
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