NORMAN PARK, Ga. — Norman Park police and fire departments are collecting Christmas items for people left homeless by the wildfires in and around Gatlinburg, Tenn.

Jeremy Henry, who is both a sergeant with the Norman Park Police Department and assistant fire chief of the Norman Park Volunteer Fire Department, said the organizations are in touch with colleagues in Gatlinburg, and they’re looking for gifts for all ages, including adults. They’re asking everyone who donates a gift to put it in a gift bag so it won’t need to be wrapped.

In addition, the Gatlinburg officials have made a special request for small, artificial Christmas trees and decorations: “Things the evacuees or those who lost their homes can use wherever they are,” Henry said.

Donations are being accepted 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Norman Park City Hall and 8:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the County Fire Office on Veterans Parkway.

Henry said the donations will be accepted until next Thursday, Dec. 15. After that, local representatives will take them to Gatlinburg, where officials there will distribute to the evacuees so they can have the decorations up about a week before Christmas.

He said if anyone prefers to give monetary donations, please make checks out to Norman Park Fire Department and earmark them for Gatlinburg Relief. They can be dropped off at the same places and times as gifts and decorations.

The wildfire in East Tennessee killed 14 people and destroyed or damaged more than 1,700 buildings.

On Wednesday, the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation, local District Attorney General James Dunn and Great Smoky Mountains National Park announced that two juveniles were charged with aggravated arson in connection with the fire, which began in the Chimney Tops area of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park on Nov. 23 and spread to the Gatlinburg area early last week.

Officials said the juveniles are from Tennessee, but not Sevier County, where the fires spread. Otherwise, they said, state law prevents releasing more information about them.