HORRY COUNTY, S.C. (WBTW) — An Horry County wildfire expert said seamless communication between agencies — especially as weather conditions soured — played a key role in preventing lives and property from being lost in the Carolina Forest blaze’s opening hours.
“Things I noticed, positioning of apparatus in case they had to break away and go. This wasn’t just for our department that fights a lot of these, this was Myrtle Beach and other units responding as well,” Horry County Fire Rescue Capt. Timothy Rainbolt said in a social media post.
Rainbolt, who joined the department in 2000 and has led its wildfire operations since 2005, said responders were able to coordinate quickly.
At its peak, more than 500 personnel and hundreds of aerial and ground assets were deployed around the 2,059-acre Covington Drive fire, which sparked March 1. Flames touched the outside of several homes, but none were heavily damaged and there were no reported injuries…