Much of the Table Rock Complex fires are now contained; charges imminent

On Monday afternoon, Russell Hubright, a spokesman for the South Carolina Forestry Commission, confirmed that 12,590 acres of woodlands at Table Rock Mountain had burned since a fire began there on March 21.

That includes 574 acres burned across the border, in Transylvania County, N.C.; and that makes the Table Rock fire the largest wildfire in South Carolina’s history.

That distinction was previously held by a fire at Pinnacle Mountain (part of the Table Rock Complex) in 2016. About 10,000 acres burned there over the course of a month that fall…

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