Firefighters in south-Georgia over the weekend were struggling to contain two large wildfires that had burned 24-hundred acres. A blaze in Long County in the southeast portion of the state had scorched 16-hundred acres according to state Forestry Commission officials.
Dried-out swamp land with dense-growth was making the fire hard to contain. The other fire in Brantley County just east of Waycross has burned 800 acres, and was igniting spots outside the control lines. The fires are believed to have started on Thursday, perhaps by smoldering control burns.
