WALNUT COVE — Weekend before last a prescribed burn that was being monitored by the North Carolina Forest Service ended up destroying a neighboring property, causing a family to loose a historic unoccupied home and two-story tobacco pack house, plus a smoke house.
The fire, which was being conducted on Friday, March 20, ended up blowing over to the adjacent property, and destroyed the pack house before it was extinguished.
“It was the same controlled burn, started on Friday, smoldering, that finished burning everything on Sunday,” said Denise Bowman, in a Facebook post…