On The Ground With A Crew Fighting Georgia’s Largest Fire

Stephannie Stokes / WABE

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Jeremy Willoughby is with a crew contracted by the National Forest Service. They’re on the side of a gravel road in the Cohutta Wilderness, where the largest wildfire in Georgia is burning.

They’re spraying water onto soil that’s covered in ash, which Willoughby said is the char from them intentionally burning the ground cover.