TOCCOA – Fire consumed a car and section of woods on a mountainside near Toccoa Tuesday afternoon.
The fire, located across from Old Rock Quarry Circle, required the prolonged closure of at least one lane of Ga. 365 so firefighters from Stephens County, the Georgia Forestry Commission and the U.S. Forest Service could work to contain the fire.
The fire was reported about 2 p.m. and burned through the afternoon, with forestry crews using a plow and hand tools to construct a break around the fire.
Additional details are not immediately available.
Stephens County officials survey a car destroyed by fire that consumed a wooded mountainside on Ga. 365 near Toccoa Tuesday afternoon.
Stephens County officials examine a car that was destroyed in a fire that consumed a wooded mountainside on Ga. 365 near Toccoa Tuesday afternoon.
Firefighting vehicles from Stephens County Fire Services, the Georgia Forestry Commission and the U.S. Forest Service line a section of Ga. 365 near Old Rock Quarry Circle Tuesday.
Firefighters make their way up the embankment on the Toccoa side of the fire on Ga. 365.
Smoke rises from the mountaintop on the side of Ga. 365 near Toccoa Tuesday.
Stephens County Fire Services units line one lane of Ga. 365 near Toccoa Tuesday afternoon.
Units from the Georgia Forestry Commission and U.S. Forest Service stage on the side of Ga. 365 near the fire.
Local, state and federal firefighting units line Ga. 365 in Stephens County while personnel work to contain a fire on a wooded mountainside.
Stephens County officials survey the fire that consumed a car and a wooded mountainside along Ga. 365 across from Old Rock Quarry Circle Tuesday afternoon.
A Georgia Forestry Commission firefighting vehicle is parked in the median of Ga. 365 near Old Rock Quarry Circle in Stephens County as fire crews battle a woods fire.
Fire chars a wooded mountainside on Ga. 365 across from Old Rock Quarry Circle in Stephens County Tuesday afternoon.
Smoke rises from the charred mountainside along Ga. 365 across from Old Rock Quarry Circle Tuesday afternoon.
Stephens County emergency personnel gather near Shiloh Fire Department's unique Brush 6 at the site of Tuesday's fire on Ga. 365.
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