Dry Conditions = Heavy Forestry Activity

Conditions in the Savannah area have been extremely dry lately, leading to higher fire dangers as indicated on the Georgia Forestry Commission's Fire Danger Rating map: http://weather.gfc.state.ga.us/Maps/fd.gif

As a result, both Georgia Forestry and South Carolina Forestry have been very busy spotting fires with aircraft and fighting fires. Georgia Forestry District 10 and South Carolina's Coastal Base were very active today with both aircraft and ground units:

151.370 - GFC District 10 Admin
159.390 - GFC Mobile-to-Mobile
159.225 - GFC District 10 Repeater
159.285 - Southeast Compact

159.315 - SCFC Coastal Base
159.450 - SCFC Beaufort Repeater

Fort Stewart Forestry has also been busy fighting fires. They fought a large one at the end of last week using talkgroup 2480 of the Fort Stewart TRS for ground operations and 163.5625 to work with a helicopter spotting the fires.

This morning, Garden City Fire, Pooler Fire, Port Wentworth Fire, and Georgia Forestry worked a series of fires alongside railroad tracks in the Chatham City and Wheathill areas. They used Fire Common (TG 37072 on the Chatham-Effingham TRS) as a working channel along with some use of their respective department talkgroups.


Mac McCormick, KF4LMT
kf4lmt@comcast.net