Tuskeegee – Firefighters with the N.C. Forest Service, U.S. Forest Service and Stecoah Fire Department responded to a small brush fire in Tuskegee Acres around 4:30 p.m. Sunday.
Quick response from firefighters resulted in the fire being kept small, although three structures were threatened. A Stecoah Fire Department crew stopped the section of the fire that was close to one of the homes.
The fire started where someone had cleaned out a fire pit and threw chunks of wood with live embers down the hillside. The fire was controlled by 7 p.m.
The fire was in the same general area of a fire in 2017 that burned 50 acres, damaged one home and threatened several more homes.
Members of the N.C. Forest Service, U.S. Forest Service and Graham County Fire Department then had to be dispatched to a brush fire on Sweetwater Road around 12:15 p.m. Crews had the fire contained around 2 p.m.
-Publisher/editor Kevin Hensley also contributed to this report.