Pickens County, SC (WSPA) – The scale of the table has grown to over 8,600 acres, according to the Forestry Commission in South Carolina.
The scale of the table with dimensions was approximately surprised in size from Wednesday to Friday.
State and federal agencies work against the wind to try to gain control of the fire by holding the first response, the public and the properties in their minds in their minds.
“Lord, we thank you for continuing to bless us with the resources, thinking and all the things needed to control this threat under which we are under,” prays Chaplin Stoard with the National Guard of the Army of the National Assembly.
There are different detention lines. The crews said the lines kept the fire away from the homes.
The South Carolina Forest Committee said the lines were built by bulldozers, where they removed the vegetation to the bare soil.
“Here along this corridor on Highway 11, a lot of focus was on the beginning,” Derrick Moore, head of the Southern Southern Zone Operations Section with federal incident management on a map.
Credit: South Carolina Forest Committee
Focus areas are constantly monitored as crews say that combustion operations, controlled burns that essentially deprives the fuel before the fire reaches this area, are also successful and will continue.
“The priority for us is this northeast line here,” Moore said. “Especially comes from the lake and behind these structures.”
The South Carolina National Guard, in Pickens County, said their main focus was to attack the fire from the air. Four planes have removed over 600,000 gallons of water so far.
“We are in the battle and we will be here until the end,” said Brigadier General Rob Stilwell, an adult -general for the US Army.
For the first time in South Carolina, a very large DC-10 air tanker also released the fire department of inaccessible areas.
Governor Henry McMaster visited the area on Friday and said that the resources were stretched between hurricane and fires.
He asked the public to take into account the choice that could even make innocent, lead to situations like this.
“You see all these people here and all this equipment and search and bring other things from all over the country and we cannot encourage fire,” McMaster said. “We went to take it out, hoping to go to have a rain help. Everyone put it in your prayers.”
Scott Phillips of the South Carolina Forestry Commission said Helen had a significant impact on this fire.
“Unfortunately, many of this, we will never understand it, but we have some plans to use some federal funding to make some efforts to mitigate, especially around the communities,” Phillips said about cleaning plans after containing wild fire on Table Rock.
The battle has not yet ended and according to the South Carolina Forestry Commission can continue months to come. They said the wild fire season had just started.
“We are 28 days and we have not even reached the April 1,” Phillips said. “April is the month in which we tend to have our largest fires here in South Carolina.”
A new bill for South Carolina was introduced on Thursday to increase the penalties that someone may face action leading to fires like this.
Pickens County Sheriff has announced on Friday that he knows that people are curious about the accusations that four teenagers responsible for this fire will collide, but the focus is to contain the fire right now.
As of Friday night, there is still a 0% detention.
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