Honey Praire Fire, GA

For the last couple of weeks now, I've been monitoring the Honey Prairie Fire that is burning in the Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge in Georgia. According to today's update on inciweb, it is burned approximately 128,000 acres.

The Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge has a publicly available facebook page with a video page where you may see five videos. Four are videos from NFWS personnel of the fire. One shows a helo and a bucket dropping on a hot spot, a second shows a helo and a bucket doing to (or from) a dip site.

I found a third video to be very interesting because it was taken from inside a helo where personnel were doing mapping operations around of the fire perimeter using a GPS. Nice piloting by the helo pilot! A fourth video is a very short clip of the fire itself. Finally you will want to check out the fifth video of one of their visiting alligators named "Big Boy."

For more information about the fire, you might want to check out:

• wildland fire hotlist thread on the Honey Prairie Fire,
• Wildfire Today 5/15 article,
• Miami Herald - Florida Wires on 5/17,
• Florida Times Union (5/16),
• You can download a copy of the latest morning report of the Southern Area Coordination Center here.