Controlled burn causes smoke and roadblock near Easy St, Oconee County SC
Fire & ArsonA large smoke cloud and strong fire odor were reported near Easy Street in Seneca, South Carolina. Investigation revealed it was a controlled forestry prescribed burn area with a roadblock in place. A Cessna airplane was seen circling the area during the event.
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All right, well, I'm going to investigate a big old smoke cloud around my area. I can't figure out what it is, but it's so big.
00:08
I mean, it stinks, and I can't figure it out. And I've had the airplane fly around for about past 30 minutes. It's still flying around.
00:20
What airplane did you have a drone?
00:27
Nah, a Cessna, one of them old Cessna slow flying airplanes. You know what I'm talking about, Cessna?
00:34
Oh,
00:36
they're the ones that are circling around,
00:38
but you still have an odor, not a cloud?
00:42
Like fire or not?
00:47
It's a fire. I mean, it smells like fire. I know what fire smells like.
00:53
I bet you do.
00:58
But I've never seen smoke so darn thick in my yard.
01:03
It worried me so. It's been going on for past 20 minutes, and I just said, heck, I'm going to write out and see where it's sad. Just out curiosity of it. If it's nothing, then I'm going to turn back and go home. But if it's something more, I'm running home for something for packing.
01:23
Oh yeah,
01:25
definitely. Well, that's,
01:27
well,
01:29
you're on your way to be an adventure.
01:31
So is there enough roads there that you can kind of get a pretty good idea of where it's at if it's not in some wilderness area?
01:43
I'm all right out to this first road called Easy Street. I'm thinking maybe some people are burning up here, Easy Street, but I'm not 100% sure, but if it's more than up into the mountains and it's just blowing the smoke off the mountains into the forest, then it's probably just some kind of control burn, is my guess.
02:06
You get a fire, I'm sure you saw that UPS store plane.
02:14
Boy, what a major accident.
02:21
Oh, I know, I know I saw that yesterday last night when I was first thing it popped up on my phone about it and I kind of...
02:29
Not friends with anybody, but I'm a subscriber to one of the YouTube channels that covers news in general. It don't matter what party year he is, but that's not the point.
02:38
But he covered it, and I watched it, and then I turned it to AM radio on 840 WHAS that's out of Blueville, Kentucky.
02:48
And there it was. I was hearing the live broadcast on the AM radio.
02:55
Oh,
02:56
wow.
02:57
Yeah. When I used to drive around a lot in earlier years,
03:02
especially I'd be trying to get to another location in the evening time,
03:07
boy, I got gone down on AM and, man, it was amazing,
03:11
how many stations you could listen to.
03:18
I know that's why I get my news and information. Oh, I found it.
03:23
There's a roadblock up here, so let me see here what this roadblock says.
03:28
Yeah, I'm going to turn around. It's Forestry Prescribed Burn Area, so that's what it is. I found it.
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Easy St, South Carolina 29678
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