Firefighters spend Thanksgiving monitoring north Georgia wildfires

GORDON COUNTY, Ga. — Nearly 100 firefighters are spending their day mopping up and monitoring the north Georgia wildfires.

The state forestry commission is re-deploying the bulldozers and crews to different areas so that they can get to new fires more quickly. The firefighters that have been on duty for the past 14 days are being relieved by fresh crews coming in to help.

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"We've developed two staging areas in North Georgia.  So, some of our resources focused on fires here are now being stationed in certain areas so they're available for initial attack when we have new fires,” Hannah Cowart said.

Local churches have organized two Thanksgiving dinners for the crews to give them a feeling of home on the holiday. One dinner will take place in Dade County at 6 p.m. and the other in Gordon County at 7 p.m.

We're talking with the crews out in the field about fire threats as the drought continues, on Channel 2 Action News starting at 4 p.m.

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