The woods may be “greening up,” but spring fire season is not over just yet.
The Graham County 911 Center received a report of a brush fire burning on Upper Tuskegee Road around 7 p.m., April 23. The caller had stated the blaze was the “size of a baseball field.”
Personnel from a number of Graham County’s fire departments – along with firefighters from the N.C. Forest Service and U.S. Forest Service – responded to the fire.
County firefighters turned the blaze over to the forest service around 9 p.m., after the fire burned less than an acre of private land.
Around 9 p.m., Sunday, another brush fire was reported near the intersection of Old Tallulah and Airport roads.
The caller stated that the fire was burning toward a building.
The Graham County Fire Department responded and had the small fire under control quickly thereafter.