The Georgia Forestry Commission, with assistance from the Bulloch County Fire Department, fought a wildfire across 400-plus acres of brushy woodland off Buie Driggers Road through the last week of July. Also hearing of other fires, the county commissioners met in emergency session Friday and imposed this year’s second temporary outdoor burn ban. Fire had first flared up in the Buie Driggers Road area, east of Brooklet, on Wednesday, July 22, according to GFC and BCFD sources. The Forestry Commission brought in tractor-plow units – those bulldozers with a V-shaped blade in front and wheeled plow in back – to clear firebreaks and smother blazes, as well as some small tanker-pumper trucks. At the peak of the firefight, the agency even had a helicopter and a plane drop water the first day or two, and a GFC plane has continued to monitor the fire. At one point last Monday, Bulloch County Public Safety and EMA posted an update on social media stating that the fire had extended to 389 acres and was 90% contained. But the acreage was later revised upward and the percentage of containment downward as flareups continued. “We are continuing to monitor and mop the fire perimeter,” Rick Lane, the Georgia Forestry Commission’s Region 4 fire management officer, said Thursday afternoon, July 30. “We had a small spot get out yesterday between 2 and 3 p.m., but it was just outside the firebreak, between two places where there was just a little bit of fuel, probably about the size of a pickup…
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