Carolinas await rain when firefighters win the upper hand when fires

Firefighters in the Carolinas seemed to get the upper hand on a bloom of forest fires that broke out at the weekend, even when some new ones started in the middle of the ongoing dry period of the region.

In the stubborn South Carolina there was a 1.600 hectare flame in the Carolina Forest community outside of Myrtle Beach City Limits, the South Carolina Forestry Commission said in a explanation.

The pictures from the Myrtle Beach region Monday morning showed a body made of smoke, which creates parts of the low -lying area and a wall with low visibility. Horry County Fire Rescue, the fireplace with the local jurisdiction, said that the residents should be able to take a little visibility in front of smoking services before Tuesday morning.

State and local firefighters were supported by two Blackhawk helicopters and a chinoo of the National Guard in South Carolina, said the guard. The aircraft has an estimated 60,000 gallon water on the Carolina Forest Fire, it said.

Residents who evacuated were allowed to return on Sunday evening, said Horry County Fire Rescue in a statement. They had to deal with smoke that are so thick and dangerous that drivers were advised by the agency to stay off the streets in the fire zone.

The governor of South Carolina, Henry D. McMaster, who explained a fire -related state of emergency on Sunday, counted the state against forest fire as victory.

“The report I have received so far were not lost and no life lost,” he said. “It was a great performance.”

The state was also four other active forest fires, two of which started on Monday in Williamsburg County, about 50 miles west of Myrtle Beach, according to an e -mail by Doug Wood, the spokesman for the forest commission.

A state summary of fires shows that 108 blazes have been reported and 4,357 acres have been burned in the past seven days. Wood previously said that the vast majority of the blazes of the dry weather broke out on Saturday when in the Myrtle Beach area and the temperatures that were reached until the mid-1970s were reported according to the data of the National Weather Service.

On Sunday, the volunteers gathered in the Carolina Forest Community Church, where some firefighters coordinated and took their efforts to grill hamburgers and hot dogs for the first aiders, according to the NBC partner WMBF by Myrtle Beach.

Thomas Garavito and Jillian Patton by Murrells Inlet, a community that down the coast about 20 miles, stopped from Dunkin.

“I saw this morning that they did a good job to keep the fire away from their houses, and I just want to show our gratitude for it again,” said Garavito.

In North Carolina, the fires in all four national forests of the state remained active on Monday, whereby according to the US Forest Service, estimated areas were estimated to be estimated to be estimated to be estimated to be almost 500 acres.

There was no contamination estimate, but the service said in a statement on Monday that the crews excavated the contamination lines and “mechanized devices for the management of serious fuel loads based on the hurricane Helene”, which caused destruction in the southeast last year than they gave way to Tennessee and North Carolina Zog and disaster. more than 200 people killed on the way.

Helenes tropical precipitation and destructive winds may have supported indirectly near the city of Tryon in North Carolina's fifth active fire.

“Parts of the forest fire burn in vegetative ruins that blow out from the hurricane Helene,” said Philip Jackson from North Carolina Forestry Service.

The 593 hectare fire was contained 63%, he said towards the end of the working day. The evacuations in the region were voluntary.

“Personnel of the NC Forest Service are working on strengthening and expanding the containment lines while wiping up in steep mountain grounds,” said Jackson.

No injuries or structural losses were reported and the cause of the fire was examined.

While such a fire outbreak is rare, Wood, spokesman for the Forestry Commission of South Carolina Forestry Commission, told the NBC subsidiary WCBD from Charleston at the weekend that the region is in the middle of the weather of the top fire season. “It's not unknown,” he said.

10 weekend fires remained in Georgia on Monday, with 2,535 hectares burned, seven structures and two vehicles were damaged and no containment was damaged, said Wendy Burnett, spokesman for the Georgia Forestry Commission.

In Tennessee, the summary of the state agricultural fire showed six active fires from a flood of weekend bubbles. According to the summary, these incidents made up less than 10 acres of burned brushes, but 762 hectares have burned a 7-day route, as the department's data show.

Winds in the region of Georgia to North Carolina have died, but the federal forecasts say that the risk of fires remains high by Tuesday evening because the relative humidity remains less than 25%.

“Increased fire weather conditions will continue until Tuesday because airy winds and warmer temperatures return,” said the National Weather Service forecast Office for Columbia, South Carolina.

A cold front will rain the Carolinas on Wednesday late Tuesday, the federal forecasts said. However, the Columbia office announced in his forecast discussion published on Monday that all the remaining flames could fan.

Since the cold, moist system will quickly move through the region, the forecast office said: “Only a brief relief of fire weather concerns is expected.”