On Tuesday evening, Sept. 1, the Bulloch County Board of Commissioners unanimously lifted the county’s second drought- or wildfire-inspired burn ban of 2026. The ban, which prohibited “all open burning of yard debris, including limbs, grass and other vegetative matter” in the county’s unincorporated area, had been in effect for one month and a day, since the commissioners enacted it during a July 31 special meeting. Terms in the ban ordinance kept it in effect from Aug. 1 “until drought conditions improve(d) and the Board of Commissioners formally rescind(ed)” it. That second burn ban declaration followed a couple of significant wildfires in the county during the last 10 days of July. One fire, which first flared in the Buie Driggers Road area, east of Brooklet, on Wednesday, July 22, burned across more than 415 acres of brushy woodland and kept Georgia Forestry Commission rangers busy for more than a week, with support also from the Bulloch County Fire Department. The Forestry Commission brought in tractor-plow units to clear firebreaks and smother blazes, as well as some small tanker-pumper trucks. At the peak of the fire suppression effort, the GFC had a helicopter and a plane drop water for a day or two, and a plane continued to monitor the fire. The county Fire Department sent some regular fire trucks to protect nearby structures, then deployed its tanker trucks to replenish the Forestry Commission’s water supplies and spray water along roadsides. GFC investigators…
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