Charred trees and a blackened landscape are the markings of the wildfire in Florence County.
/ Tonya Brown
The South Carolina Forestry Commission is keeping close eye on a wildfire off of Twin Church Road near the town of Timmonsville in Florence County.
Charred trees and a blackened landscape are the markings of the wildfire.
Anthony Eaddy works with the South Carolina Forestry Commission and says a power line fell and sparked the fire on June 4th.
He say power crews were dispatched to fix the line and saw the smoke.
"The fire has been continually burning under the ground," said Anthony Eaddy.
It's still burning in the organic vegetation on the ground, that's why there's smoke and no flames.
The burned tree roots are a good example of how hot the ground gets.
Eaddy said, "Starts burning and just burns all he dirt from around the roots and it just causes the tree to topple over because it doesn't have any support around the roots."
Recent rains have helped to calm the fire, but Eaddy says it's not nearly enough.
"The rainfall helped us out but it's probably still burning under the ground. We're gonna still continuously monitor it until we get some more adequate rainfall," said Eaddy.
In the meantime, Eaddy checks on the fire three times a day and forestry has created a fire break around it.
Forestry officials aren't sure on how much damage the fire has caused to pine trees in the woods.
The land is privately owned.
