Wildfires Extend Well Beyond Traditional “Fire Season” In SC

COLUMBIA, S.C. (WOLO)–Already doubling the number of acres burned from all of 2010, this year has give forestry officials fits–not because of the severity of the fires, but the sheer consistency of them. With a budget half of what it was in 2008, they are fighting persistent fires across the state that won’t seem to stop popping up. As a result, all of the Pee Dee Region (as well as Sumter and Lexington counties) has issued an outdoor fire ban, and the entire state is under a Red Flag alert, which is a “request” of sorts to not burn….