Wild Fires in Myrtle Beach-Horry County |
The past couple of days has been interesting to say the least! SInce Wednesday evening over 30 sq miles of property (about 20,000 acres) have burned in Horry County. The fire started in a neighborhood on the outskirts of conway and made it's way to Hwy 31 which is almost to the waterway. It touched the back edge of the Grande Dunes member's course and it struck heavily at Barefoot Resort burning over 50 homes to the ground and damaging many more. This is the worst fire that Myrtle Beach has seen since 1976, but at that time the area was populated to it did much less damage to property. Residents in the Carolina Forest area even as late as last night looked out their windows to see orange flames less than a mile away. The community is rallying to provide immediate shelter for those in need. Right now they say the fire is about 50% contained so it could be days until it is totally out. Let's just hope that they can catch the flare-ups quickly and have no more loss of property.
