Other than having dry throats and burning eyes form the acrid smoke we're okay, Unfortunately a lot of our friends are in harms way,
and there are a lot of wildlife deaths being reported due someones negligent behavior.
The fire, named the Highway 31 fire, has now burned 19,000 acres and
is 40 percent contained; 69 homes have been destroyed in North Myrtle
Beach and 100 others have been damaged by the fire.
A spokesman for the South Carolina Forestry Commission said a person
was issued a ticket in connection with the fire on Woodlawn Drive that
could have led to the large fire. The person was issued two tickets
for failure to notify the Forestry Commission of an active fire and for
allowing the fire to spread to the land of another. The two tickets
total $732. The person’s fire was a routine debris burn that began over
the weekend and was put out the same day, but rekindled on Wednesday.
More than 2,500 residents have been forced to evacuate.
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