Country music icon Dolly Parton has announced she'll be donating $US1000 ($1350) a month to victims who have lost their homes in Tennessee's devastating wildfires.
"As you may know by now, there have been terrible wildfires in the Great Smoky Mountains, the same mountains where I grew up and where my people call home," Parton said in a statement.
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Dolly Parton donates to fire victims
The country music star announces the establishment of her My People Fund vowing to donate US$1000 (AUD$1346) a month to every family affected by deadly Tennessee wildfires.
"I've always believed that charity begins at home, and that's why I've asked my Dollywood companies to help me establish a 'My People Fund.'"
According to reports, ten people have been confirmed dead, over 14,000 displaced, and hundreds of buildings burned in the fires, which raged across the Smoky Mountain towns of Gatlinburg and Pigeon Forge, Parton's hometown and the site of her Dollywood theme park.
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On Wednesday, strong winds and dry conditions whipped a small blaze in the Snowy Mountains National Park into several infernos that spread across Tennessee's Sevier County.
The original fire was "human-caused", authorities have said.
"We want to provide a hand up to all those families that have lost everything in the fires," Parton added in a video shared on Twitter, directing fans to donate to her Dollywood Foundation.
Help those who lost their homes in the Tennessee wildfires. Donate to the My People Fund by visiting https://t.co/Uydp1gDCwJ . #mypeoplefund pic.twitter.com/xyvXoCeIE1
— Dolly Parton (@DollyParton) December 1, 2016
"To recover, we want to provide $1000 a month to all those families that have lost their homes in the fires, until they get back up on their feet."
The 70-year-old, who was born and raised in Sevier County before moving to Nashville after graduating high school, has long touted her Smoky Mountain roots on albums such as 1973's My Tennessee Mountain Home, 2014's Blue Smoke, and her cult Christmas movie, A Smoky Mountain Christmas.
Parton's god-daughter pop star Miley Cyrus, with whom the singer performed a viral version of her hit Jolene on an episode of The Voice this week, also backed Parton's calls with an Instagram posted to her 56 million followers.
"Love my fairy godmother and sending protective energy to the ever so sacred Dollywood and all of the homes/folks in TN who are experiencing this devastating fire," she wrote.