The Fire Is Being Contained
The latest from the Myrtle Beach Sun News: Roads reopen, crews still busy as wildfire still burns
Crews are keeping an eye on a water treatment plant near Long Bay Road that could be threatened by the fire as Red Cross volunteers hand out supplies in damaged neighborhoods.
…The fire, which has raged since Wednesday, has charred 20,500 acres, destroying 76 houses in North Myrtle Beach and in rural Horry County. No one has been injured.
The fire is about 80 percent contained, according to Horry County, but crews also are busy responding to hotspots.
If the winds kick up again, all bets are off. Rain is the only way to really extinguish wildfires, so you have people this year hoping for a visit from a tropical storm to refill reservoirs and ensure that the peat bogs get soaked.
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Crews are keeping an eye on a water treatment plant near Long Bay Road that could be threatened by the fire
ouch. that could be a real problem, as it’s the potable water system that’s generally used to fight fires.
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They can and do pump directly from the streams and rivers in the back country, but it will definitely cause problems in the urban areas, especially with the drought conditions. They can use seawater, but that is apt to kill trees and cause more problems later, so they don’t like to do it.
Glad nobody has been injured, and hopefully it will be all over soon. Well done. 🙂
yep. i should have added ‘in populated areas’ to my comment.
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The local Sun News folks have done a great j ob, in my opinion. They usually do, during a crises.
Thren they can go back to who shot whom, and ads for tourist traps.
Good on them!
The big difference from your situation, Kryten, is greater population density, and many more roads for evacuation. California has many of your problems in the fire areas – hills, few roads, and isolated settlements. It is a coastal plain in South Carolina.
Understood, Hipparchia.
I can’t say about the print edition, Andante, but the people on their site seem to know how to use a variety of tools to present the news, and they seem to have the ability to cover local news, which is what I want in a newspaper. You can get the AP feed anywhere.
Newspapers in tourist areas seem to have a hard time deciding whether to cover local violence to sell papers, or to keep it down to sell tourism. I would imagine they have a “sanitized” version of the paper for outside distribution.