It’s been a tumultuous few days for Brantley County, Ga., a rural community west of Brunswick and northeast of the Okefenokee Swamp, ever since a wildfire that was mostly contained Tuesday morning suddenly grew and started moving quickly.
Some residents said they had not heard of the fire that morning.
“Not until that day when [my nephew] got up and said, ‘ We got to go, it was on fire,” Gayle Shuman said. “I didn’t know, I had no idea.”
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