Officials with North Myrtle Beach and Horry County Fire Rescue, as well as the South Carolina Forestry Commission, told WMBF News between 30 and 50 homes have been burned in the fires across the county. No injuries have been reported so Horry County fire from Grissom Parkway. If other evacuations are needed, Horry County Fire Rescue will use Reverse 9-1-1, calling people in the affected area. They will also send police officers and firefighters into the neighborhoods to ask people to leave. Horry County Fire
MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. (AP) - Officials in South Carolina fear weather conditions may send the flames from a wildfire even closer to neighborhoods, golf courses and businesses. Low humidity and high winds are expected Thursday. Officials have not determined a cause for the fire, which began about noon Wednesday in Conway in Horry County. High winds fanned the flames, causing the fire to jump over the six-lane Carolina Bays Parkway, across the Intercoastal Officials with North Myrtle Beach and Horry County Fire Rescue, as well as the South Carolina Forestry Commission, told WMBF News between 30 and 50 homes have been burned in the fires across the county. No injuries have been reported so
"It's kind of my time at the beach, and I don't get to the beach too often," he said. "As much as I want to, I just honestly don't know." Source: Sun News This article contributed by editor on Tuesday, April 21, 2009 (23:47:26) (AP Photo/the Sun News, Janet Blackmon Morgan). Smoke billows at the Grande Dunes in Myrtle Beach, S.C. on Wednesday, April 22, 2009. Authorities say a wildfire whipped by high winds has destroyed a home and that walls of smoke are The roof started to go down," Castanva told The Sun News of Myrtle Beach.</p><p>Paulhus said some patrons gathered around his TV to see a report on the fire. But vacation season was still in full swing and tourists were bent on getting
Myrtle Beach is currently experiencing some of the worst fires that we've seen in a while on the East Coast; the damage caused by the quickly spreading flames has become so bad that authorities are discussing the possibility of the fire Officials with North Myrtle Beach and Horry County Fire Rescue, as well as the South Carolina Forestry Commission, told WMBF News between 30 and 50 homes have been burned in the fires across the county. No injuries have been reported so Officials hoped the waterway would act as a natural firebreak to protect more populated areas closer to the beach. State fire officials said as many as 40 homes had been damaged or destroyed. North Myrtle Beach spokeswoman Nicole Aiello said Adding to the problem were heavily vegetated patches called Carolina Bays that caught fire and fueled the blaze. Tropical downpours are often needed to extinguish such fires, said state Forestry Commission spokesman Scott Hawkins.
