NASHVILLE, Tenn. — As more people in Tennessee move to forested areas of the state, the Department of Agriculture is pushing to create a new team to train first responders how to fight wildfires. According to the Tennessee Department of Agriculture (TDA), Tennessee has one of the fastest-growing wildland urban interfaces in the country. In recent years, the area where humans and nature meet has increased around 2 million acres in the state. Those areas are more prone to wildfires. “As urbanization and people build residences, some of them build within the trees and [there is] not much access,” said Dr. Charlie Hatcher, TDA Commissioner. … “What that does for us in wildland fire fighting is it makes it infinitely more complex to fight those fires, because now we’re not just dealing with trees and plants, we’re also dealing with people’s homes and communities,” Megan Carpenter with the TDA said.