TheMaximumHornetSting Posted May 11, 2017 Report Share Posted May 11, 2017 Clinch and Charlton county GA are being evacuated as a wildfire is spreading insanely fast as the Fire has already set a national disaster wildfire record. It has burned through 140,000 acres... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheMaximumHornetSting Posted May 11, 2017 Author Report Share Posted May 11, 2017 Correction as of now 143,677 acres of land have been torched. Schools have been closed and homes evacuated. The flames where comtained for awhile however the western edge of containment was breached... and kept spreading. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Camcat88 Posted May 11, 2017 Report Share Posted May 11, 2017 We've been getting the smoke pretty bad here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rufus69 Posted May 11, 2017 Report Share Posted May 11, 2017 23 minutes ago, Camcat88 said: We've been getting the smoke pretty bad here. We've actually had some smoke here on Amelia. Nothing like they've had other places. We drove thru Baldwin earlier in the week...and it was bad. The ocean breezes seem to be helping us...for the time being. Rufus>> Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Camcat88 Posted May 11, 2017 Report Share Posted May 11, 2017 1 hour ago, Rufus69 said: We've actually had some smoke here on Amelia. Nothing like they've had other places. We drove thru Baldwin earlier in the week...and it was bad. The ocean breezes seem to be helping us...for the time being. Rufus>> The wife wants a beach day tomorrow (I am not much of a beach guy, but whatever keeps the wife happy) so I am glad to hear that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Camcat88 Posted May 11, 2017 Report Share Posted May 11, 2017 This morning the smoke wasn't too bad, but the past couple of days it was pretty thick. We just got done dropping off a load of supplies for the firemen in Folkston. I feel for those guys they are Rock Stars. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rufus69 Posted May 11, 2017 Report Share Posted May 11, 2017 54 minutes ago, Camcat88 said: This morning the smoke wasn't too bad, but the past couple of days it was pretty thick. We just got done dropping off a load of supplies for the fireman in Folkston. I feel for those guys they are Rock Stars. Gospel !!!!!! Rufus>> 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NorCalRuss Posted May 11, 2017 Report Share Posted May 11, 2017 9 hours ago, TheMaximumHornetSting said: Clinch and Charlton county GA are being evacuated as a wildfire is spreading insanely fast as the Fire has already set a national disaster wildfire record. It has burned through 140,000 acres... Lot of fires in Cali-Oregon-Washington have been more than 140,000 acres. There's been lot of million plus acre fires throughout history. Is there a lot of houses in Charlton area? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thc6795 Posted May 11, 2017 Report Share Posted May 11, 2017 36 minutes ago, NorCalRuss said: Lot of fires in Cali-Oregon-Washington have been more than 140,000 acres. There's been lot of million plus acre fires throughout history. Is there a lot of houses in Charlton area? While stationed at El Toro/Tustin years back I was with a S&R unit. I believe it was 93 the Santa Ana's were so bad, the fires were out of control. They called us in to help as best we could. I agree Every fireman first responders are the real hero's. These should be kids role models instead of LBJ and other ball players. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheMaximumHornetSting Posted May 11, 2017 Author Report Share Posted May 11, 2017 45 minutes ago, NorCalRuss said: Lot of fires in Cali-Oregon-Washington have been more than 140,000 acres. There's been lot of million plus acre fires throughout history. Is there a lot of houses in Charlton area? Charlton is a fairly large county with a small population. However the concern is thatll it spread into Camden and Lowndes County which are much more densely populated than Charlton and Clinch... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheMaximumHornetSting Posted May 11, 2017 Author Report Share Posted May 11, 2017 @NorCalRuss Its spread into Florida as of this morning. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bormio Posted May 11, 2017 Report Share Posted May 11, 2017 Wonder why - it has not been dry. A small fire can be just as bad - an 8000 acre fire killed 19 WFF in Arizona 4 years ago. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheMaximumHornetSting Posted May 11, 2017 Author Report Share Posted May 11, 2017 This fire has been burning since April 5th only recently has it caught attention. And only an estimated 15% of it has been contained. As of now 143,986 acres of land have been torched in GA alone. There hasnt been a home count done yet. But there are reports of people as far down as Jacksonville,FL reporting smells of smoke. People from Valdosta have started to report damage already from fires. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NorCalRuss Posted May 11, 2017 Report Share Posted May 11, 2017 31 minutes ago, Bormio said: Wonder why - it has not been dry. A small fire can be just as bad - an 8000 acre fire killed 19 WFF in Arizona 4 years ago. A lot of times fire suppression creates huge fires. Years of not having fires creates lots of fuel built up on the ground to burn. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheMaximumHornetSting Posted May 11, 2017 Author Report Share Posted May 11, 2017 Good news tomorrow its supposed to be heavy rain. Bad news the weather that rains coming with is capable of producing tornadoes and severe lightning... Which will only create more fire... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheMaximumHornetSting Posted May 11, 2017 Author Report Share Posted May 11, 2017 1 minute ago, NorCalRuss said: A lot of times fire suppression creates huge fires. Years of not having fires creates lots of fuel built up on the ground to burn. This isnt the first time its happened in this area of GA. The Okefenoke swamp area has a history of fires. The issue is the fires tend to start in the areas of the swamp that people dont go to or cant really reach... And then they get bigger and spread faster... Pine trees dont exactly stop fires.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheMaximumHornetSting Posted May 11, 2017 Author Report Share Posted May 11, 2017 Apparently theres a fire going in North GA near the TN border as well.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheMaximumHornetSting Posted May 11, 2017 Author Report Share Posted May 11, 2017 Per the AJC the situation has gotten worse as it looks like the flames are spreading Westwards out of Charlton and Clinch and looks to breach Lowndes... Only 15% of the flame has been contained and its spreading faster than they can contain it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
181pl Posted May 12, 2017 Report Share Posted May 12, 2017 On 5/11/2017 at 1:54 AM, TheMaximumHornetSting said: Clinch and Charlton county GA are being evacuated as a wildfire is spreading insanely fast as the Fire has already set a national disaster wildfire record. It has burned through 140,000 acres... Trump's fault. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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