Hotel spokeswoman Deneen Perrinsaid Hayes was also the head of the GTR during a period of great railway expansion, making items from that era very valuable to the hotel.
National Guard helicopters were flying to the scene Monday morning and will drop water from a nearby lake onto the fire, saidPerrin Anderson, a spokesman for Sevier County.
But Nintendo says the Wii's popularity among the over-65 crowd wasn't totally unexpected because the game, which simulates sports like bowling and tennis, is "intuitive ... not intimidating, " saidPerrin Kaplan, vice president of marketing and corporate affairs at Nintendo of America.