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Crews battle a large brush fire in rural Horry County

By Alan Blondin

Updated March 13, 2019 11:59 PM

Crews from Horry County Fire & Rescue and the Tabor City Fire Department are fighting a 4-acre brush fire off Bertie Road in the Loris area near the border with Tabor City, N.C.

The fire was reported around 5 p.m.

There are no injuries and there is no current threat to people or property, according to an Horry County Fire & Rescue official.

At approximately 4:45 p.m., HCFR responded to the area of Bertie Road near Tabor City to combat a four-acre brush fire.

Crews brought with them various engines including brush trucks.

There are no injuries and there is no threat of damage to buildings or vehicles.#HCFR pic.twitter.com/0MQotERw25
— Horry SC Fire Rescue (@hcfirerescue) March 13, 2019

This story was originally published March 13, 2019 at 7:47 PM.

Alan Blondin

The Sun News

Alan Blondin covers golf, Coastal Carolina University athletics, business, and numerous other sports-related topics that warrant coverage. Well-versed in all things Myrtle Beach, Horry County and the Grand Strand, the 1992 Northeastern University journalism school valedictorian has been a reporter at The Sun News since 1993 after working at papers in Texas and Massachusetts. He has earned eight top-10 Associated Press Sports Editors national writing awards and more than 20 top-three S.C. Press Association writing awards since 2007.

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