MAY 1, 2026 – U.S. Army Soldiers with the Augusta-based 877th Engineer Company, 878th Engineer Battalion, 648th Maneuver Enhancement Brigade, Georgia Army National Guard, have joined the multiagency wildfire response in South Georgia.
The team arrived April 28 in Echols County, Georgia, with two D6 dozers to stop the fire spread by clearing fire breaks.
“What they’re currently doing is widening the fire breaks out so that the fire tankers and the water engines can get back there [in the woods],” said U.S. Army Sgt. 1st Class Michael Williams, a platoon sergeant with the 877th Engineer Company…