(Carmen Rodgers) Using the back-burning method, responders from three nearby fire departments as well as the Alabama Forestry Commission worked to extinguish a forest fire that sparked late Friday afternoon near the Franklin community. Back-burning involves starting small fires along a man-made or natural firebreak in front of the main fire front. Back burning reduces the amount of fuel that is available to the main fire by the time that it reaches the burnt area.
(Carmen Rodgers) Using the back-burning method, responders from three nearby fire departments as well as the Alabama Forestry Commission worked to extinguish a forest fire that sparked late Friday afternoon near the Franklin community.
(Carmen Rodgers) Using the back-burning method, responders from three nearby fire departments as well as the Alabama Forestry Commission worked to extinguish a forest fire that sparked late Friday afternoon near the Franklin community. Back-burning involves starting small fires along a man-made or natural firebreak in front of the main fire front. Back burning reduces the amount of fuel that is available to the main fire by the time that it reaches the burnt area.
(Carmen Rodgers) Using the back-burning method, responders from three nearby fire departments as well as the Alabama Forestry Commission worked to extinguish a forest fire that sparked late Friday afternoon near the Franklin community.
With a statewide fire alert in a place, a plume of smoke filled the eastern sky late Friday afternoon when a fire sparked on the outskirts of the Franklin community, putting local residents on guard.
According to Franklin Fire Department chief Scott Cooper, his department along with firefighters from the Reeltown Fire Department, Shorter Fire Department and the Alabama Forestry Commission out of Macon County arrived on the scene of the forest fire.
