SC Waldfire | Real estate owners near Carolina Forest allowed themselves home because the fire is still burning, grateful that it was not worse

South Carolina (WTVD) – Strong thick smoke fills the air in some parts of the city that surround the Carolina forest in Myrtle Beach, after a running fire that triggered evacuations over the weekend.

A smoke report was issued for Tuesday morning and an air quality warning for horry County, South Carolina.

The residents of the Walker Woods were evacuated at the weekend and were allowed to return home.

Some owners returned and found their homes through the fires. “You can see that this is just like a herself earth and the fence has only melted from the heat,” said Mike Abel. The fire had no mercy on Abels fence, who once surrounded his home.

“This is completely burned, this palm that survived the shrub because it stood behind the fence and the fence like the fire held away when it melted.” The trampoline was also damaged by the flames together with the siding in his house, but his greatest concern was in his house, his dog Bowie.

Abel says: “I didn't know that he was fine until I had a surveillance camera at the front of the entrance and a firefighter stopped in his pickup because there were flames on my front yard. And he is literally out with his feet and I was able to hear both rates through the camera microphone.”

This bark gave Abel hope and after the evacuation orders for Abel's neighborhood had been lifted, he was relieved to see Bowie.

Abel says he is also grateful to consider how high the fires and how close there was at his house. “It is, I mean, it's terrible, but I am blessed. I mean, that's the worst. The fact with the size of this fire and the nobody I know in this community has lost her at home or her life, I would say we are all pretty happy,” adds Abel.

Donald Piper is another homeowner in the Walker Woods district, whose house was damaged by the fires. He says: “It came across this road as quickly as I ever moved. I wetted things to try it and I knew I would take the street, but when it came to the street, it was on the road.”

Too much for Piper to deal with his garden hose and he knows fire. Before he retired to Myrtle Beach, he was a fireman in Wisconsin for 30 years. Piper and his wife evacuated with this fire and had firefighters do their job. Piper adds: “It's good that there were no injuries, but there is a lot of damage.” The fire damaged Piper's fence and siding to his house, but he says he was grateful that it was no longer.

“Well, it's a bit too tight for comfort. You hate to see that it happens to someone.”

The fire brigade reacted to Hot Spots in Carolina Forest all day. In one place, the crews pulled their fire hoses deep into the forest and tell that they created a man created by humans to saturate the ground.

As for the community in the Carolina Forest Area, volunteers outside the Carolina Forest Community Church are in full power and offer meals for first aiders.

Rick Vines says: “We are the central hub point for Carolina Forest. We accommodate a lot of different fire brigades to North Carolina, several counties to South Carolina, and only make sure that they are fed and fired to go out and keep this fire.”

The goal is containment. Firefighters say that 100% containment could take several days because it is due to the weather conditions.

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