Forest Fires in Chatham and Effingham Counties

Dry conditions finally caught up with us today. Throughout the afternoon and this evening, Georgia Forestry and local fire departments fought forest fires in Chatham County near I-16 and the Pooler Parkway and in Effingham County near Guyton. Air operations augmented the firefighters and bulldozers on the ground at both fires. Based on radio traffic between the Georgia Forestry aircraft, there were also fires in Long County and Bulloch County.

Note the presence of Eastern District (Sunbury) fire units working the fire in Chatham County. Additional units from other counties were also on standby for mutual aid as well.

Chatham Forest Fire
Conventional Frequencies
159.225 - Georgia Forestry District 10 Repeater

159.390 - Georgia Forestry Mobile-to-Mobile
-Aircraft 0Z/38H, fire spotting
-CHOPPER 3, water drops
-013
-POOLER COMMAND CENTER
-BRYAN ##, CHATHAM ##, EMMANUEL ##, JENKINS ##, LONG ##, TATTNALL ##

168.775 - Ch. 9 (US Forestry 1)
-Aircraft 0Z wkg BRYAN ##

169.900 - Ch. 10 (US Forestry 3)
-Aircraft 0Z wkg CHATHAM ##

123.400 - Georgia Forestry Air-to-Air
-Aircraft 0Z
-CHOPPER 3
-CHOPPER 7 (sent to Effingham Fire)
-N241JH (Chatham Co.)
-Air Tractor N60057 (Chatham Co.)

Chatham-Effingham TRS
TG 37072 - Fire Common, Primary Working Channel
-COMMAND
-ENTRY CONTROL
-STAGING
-Savannah Fire
-Garden City FD 2#, 12##
-Port Wentworth FD 4#, 14##
-Thunderbolt FD 5#, 5##
-Pooler FD 6#, 16##
-Bloomingdale FD 8#, 18##
-Southside FD
-CEMA 3, CEMA 4
-Effingham FD 54
-Eastern District (Sunbury) 2#

TG 36880 - Savannah Fire Dispatch
TG 36912 - Savannah Fire Admin
TG 3568 - Chatham Metro Fire Dispatch
TG 4592 - Port Wentworth FD
TG 4752 - Thunderbolt FD
TG 5040 - Garden City FD
TG 5424 - Pooler FD


Effingham Forest Fire
Conventional Frequencies
159.225 - Georgia Forestry District 10 Repeater

159.285 - SE Compact
-Aircraft 0X, fire spotting
-CHOPPER 7, water drops
-BULLOCH ##
-EFFINGHAM ##

155.355 - Effingham Fire/EMS Dispatch
155.115 - North Effingham Fire Repeater

Chatham-Effingham TRS
TG 25200 - Effingham Fire Admin 1
TG 25104 - Effingham Fire Fireground 1


Mac McCormick, KF4LMT
kf4lmt@comcast.net