Fires Take One House Threaten Another
Burkesville Fire Chief Greg Cary knocked down burning embers on March 14. PHOTO | Greg Wells
By Greg Wells
CCN-editor
The Burkesville Fire Chief and Emergency Management Director, Greg Cary, said the department responded to three fire calls last week, one had reached the woods one was closing in on a house and another claimed a house.
“It was pretty much burnt to the ground by the time we got there,” Cary said of an unoccupied dwelling on Hegira Road.
That fire was March 15, and though there was a thunderstorm in the area at the time but when asked, Cary said he could not positively say that was the cause of the fire.
On March 14, on Bakerton Road, someone driving by a home noticed flames behind it, and called for help.
Cary said that when he arrived, he called for the department’s brush truck to be dispatched, adding that he almost had to start dragging things away from the home to knock down the fire before the truck arrived.
Caleb Finley arrived with Truck 4 before that was necessary and the two men saved the building and extinguished the fire, which was also spreading towards the woods.
On the old Ky-61 N. a fire was called in on March 13.
Cary requested the assistance of the Forestry Service and Breeding volunteer fire department to help put out that fire which had reached the woods on the Adair County line.
Remember, grass and underbrush are still quite dry, and spring winds can grow and spread fire quickly this time of year. The seasonal burn-ban is still in effect.
