Growing Georgia wildfires have destroyed 120 homes, forcing new evacuations

[OKIsItJustMe]

Source: Associated Press

By EMILIE MEGNIEN and RUSS BYNUM
Updated 2:21 PM EDT, April 24, 2026

NAHUNTA, Ga. (AP) — Two large wildfires burning in drought-stricken southeast Georgia have destroyed more than 120 homes and are threatening nearly 1,000 more, Gov. Brian Kemp said Friday.

Kemp told reporters after touring the fire area that state officials believe the wildfires have burned more homes than any other in Georgia’s history.

The fire in rural Brantley County has burned 87 homes since it began Friday, fanned by gusty winds into pine woods that are dry as tinder. Kemp said officials believe the fire was sparked by a balloon that landed on a live power line.

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“There’s no way to stop this fire,” Kemp said. “They’re having to contain the flanks and the back of it and then, hopefully, we get a change in the weather.”

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Read more: https://apnews.com/article/georgia-florida-wildfires-drought-54ae4a4b099c1c11b3d76800275055e1

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https://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/predictions/30day/

[68er]

1. "Hopefully we get a change in the weather..."

Sure. Give it another 10,000 years or so...

[Pinback]

2. We've been smelling the smoke in metro Atlanta.

It’s not noticeable today but it sure was earlier in the week Highly unusual.

[Prairie Gates]

3. Sounds like some rural Georgians are about to learn what happens when you elect trashbags

to run the federal government.

[NeoTrajan]

4. So, did they or did they NOT rake the forest?

Where's the world's foremost Forest Raking expert when you need him?

Maybe he can open the water valves in Northern California... It'll reach .....

Joking aside, conservatives are dumb

[OKIsItJustMe]

5. Not all conservatives are dumb

(any more than all “progressives” are geniuses.)

Both follow "bell curve" distributions.

[NeoTrajan]

6. Most all keep voting dumb....nt

[OKIsItJustMe]

7. Years ago, I had a conversation with a "conservative" who said, "Please don't call me a 'conservative;'..."

“… it makes me sound like I’m a Trump voter.” Call me a “traditionalist.”

I replied, “Donald Trump is no conservative.” He said, “Thank you!”

[travelingthrulife]

8. Should have raked their forests...

[BidenRocks]

9. Every states Air National Guard has C-130 aircraft.

If you haven't prepared for fires by purchasing MAFFS, https://www.maffs.com/, you have let the people down.
Modular Aerial Fire Fighting Systems allow many different aircraft to be an air tanker.

Climate change. Helluva hoax, isn't it?

[oasis]

10. Scary. 1,000 more home threatened.

[kevinore]

11. It's not the time to be petty...

Georgians are Americans like the rest of us, and they are in need of help. Is there any sort of support system for donations?