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Storm downs trees and douses wildfire
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This large trampoline was blown several hundred feet into a neighbors yard and a fence was damaged by high winds during Wednesday nights storm at a residence on Nottingham Road near Brooklet. - photo by REAGAN DALY/staff
A wind-fed fire, trees blocking roads, power outages and a couple of weather-related accidents had public safety responders busy Wednesday night, but Bulloch County escaped any major damage from the strong line of storms that raked across Georgia. A woods fire on Jerusalem Church Road in the Leefield area had Bulloch County firefighters battling a blaze that threatened structures around 8:30 Wednesday night, with calls in to Bulloch County Central 911 reporting wind-fed flames “30 to 40 feet high,” according to reports over the radio by operators. Bulloch County firefighters responded to the fire, which had originally “been a controlled burn where they were clearing some land,” Bulloch County Fire Chief Christopher Ivey said.