Myrtle beach, sc forest fires

[GTCB-chris]

Its national news, but its a big problem for me, i live a few miles south of these fires.


full story here: http://www.thesunnews.com/



what kind of coverage are people in other parts of the USA, and other countries getting of these fires?

[Serj22]

Haven't seen anthing on it over here. But it looks bad. Time to dig some dirt around the house.:(

[GTCB-chris]

nothing is working, we have fire agencies from surrounding states, there were 3 fires going on in my county, then like 30 miles away there was 2 more, one has taken up like 20,000 acres, over 100 homes were destroyed, and hundreds more with considerable damage, its been a few days now, the fires started one earth day, of all days. its done billions in damage.

[Serj22]

We have a lot of fires in town, but all caused by 12 year olds running into large fields to play with lighters. Then 7 people's house burns down... and the kids always get caught.:rolleyes: This has happened about 5 times in the last 2 years. Then we had the fires in California a little while back, never saw any of it near us, but Crockett across the river lights fire about once a year.

[GTCB-chris]

i remember hearing about some CA fires, but its really rare in south carolina, i mean it crazy, look around on that link, its or local news paper, the have almost live updates on their site about it.

[GTCB-chris]

b.t.w. this was started by some couple burning trash, they got cited for allowing a flame to reach an others property

[GTCB-chris]

http://i26.photobucket.com/albums/c147/mulletjunke/04-22-09_1707-1.jpg
http://i26.photobucket.com/albums/c147/mulletjunke/fire.jpg
http://i26.photobucket.com/albums/c147/mulletjunke/04-22-09_1710-1.jpg
http://i26.photobucket.com/albums/c147/mulletjunke/04-23-09_0821-1.jpg
http://i26.photobucket.com/albums/c147/mulletjunke/04-23-09_0822-1.jpg





i took all but one of those pictures, they have most of the roads closed close to the fire

[Black Pearl]

Wow those are some nasty fires. Looks a lot like Roman's territory. Hope they get them under control and you get back to normal down there.

[Serj22]

Wow, the sky is just gray. Is that super near you Chris?

[GTCB-chris]

not super close, like thirty miles away give or take

[Serj22]

30 miles is still a little close for comfort...

[GTCB-chris]

the pictures that are all smokey are pretty much at my neighborhood. its kind of unsettling

[GTCB-chris]

UPDATE!!


video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yA_FG2OEwqc

[Serj22]

It's good that those firefighters came to point at the fire and say "no" "bad fire" otherwise you'd have been toast.:(

[GTCB-chris]

haha yeah true, its still going, it started on the 19th or 20th and its the 27th now

[electric V]

Haven't seen anthing on it over here. But it looks bad. Time to dig some dirt around the house.:(

Ditto but I hink that you should build a moat:D

The worst fire that we had here was the tire fire on the opposite side of town where I live at the time. The wharehouse had about 5X as many tires as he was allowed to have. There was black smoke all around the south part of town.

[Serj22]

AN Entire Big-O tires lit fire in our town after they fired an employee- an investigation by us indicated that he "fired" them back. Stupid.

That, and a big foam packing warehouse lit fire and made a giant napalm something that flew into the air, there was little balls of firey foam floating in the air all over town. Scary.

[electric V]

I saw a video of a fireworks factory that caoght fire in Germany. It looked like a war was going on.

[GTCB-chris]

i have seen the fireworks video too, and a moat wont work, i crossed a 6 lane highway, not counting the median and shoulder

[greenbug]

Hi Chris
I have not been on here for a long time
I am now in Hilton Head
I got a call from a friend in the Northeast the other day and he said
"how far are you from the fires?" so I think it is getting a fair amount of coverage
my new v is going fine
hope all is well
Deb

[GTCB-chris]

thank you for visiting CR-V|OC and being part of the community, and thanks for your concern.
-chris