Thanks from Snow Hill Volunteer Fire Company-

 

Snow Hill Volunteer Fire Company Inc

While the Snow Hill Volunteer Fire Company is no longer on location at Tyson, but still supporting the mitigation of it, we would like to take a moment to thank some organizations for their assistance through this incident.

First and foremost, thank you to Pocomoke City Volunteer Fire Company for lending us Engine 103 to use. Unfortunately just prior to this incident, we had two apparatus go out of service for maintenance. We asked around to see if any company had a piece of spare apparatus to lend to help support the incident, and Pocomoke came through in a big way. We greatly appreciate the use of your apparatus during this time!

Secondly, to Powellville Volunteer Fire Company and Girdletree Volunteer Fire Company, Inc. for making responses during the day and night. Your help is always greatly appreciated!

To the Town of Snow Hill, and our elected officials, thank you for your unwavering support as we supported the operations and mitigation of the incident!

To members of the various Worcester County Agencies, and Government that lent personnel, apparatus, equipment, expertise, thank you. The amount of phone calls, conversations, text messages, etc. that occurred, and brought us all together in support of mitigating this incident was overwhelming, but a safe mitigation could not have occurred without it.

To the membership of the Snow Hill Volunteer Fire Company, thank you for working as hard as you did over the last two weeks.

To our community, your support has been tremendous. We understand this has been a long incident, but the support you have given us is amazing. We truly appreciate it.

Mike Creech

Fire Chief

Large Fire Saturday Near Hallwood, Virginia

Fire departments were called once again this afternoon to this location due to a rekindle.
At 5:09 PM on Saturday afternoon, a woods fire was reported on Neal Parker Road just south of Bayside Market. The fire burned several acres of property on Neal Parker Road, which is Route 316 between Hallwood and Saxis Road. The piece of land which was damaged in the fire was a wooded area which had just recently been cut, according to Station 6 Chief Jody Bagwell.


Several stations responded or helped with standby vehicles to assist in the fire. The stations included Saxis, Bloxom, New Church, Parksley, Tasley and Greenbackville. Pocomoke was called for a standby engine and brought a standby tanker. Chincoteague also brought a standby vehicle. Units from the Virginia Department of Forestry were also on the scene. According to Bagwell, the stretch of Neal Parker Road between Hallwood and Saxis road was temporarily closed due to the enormity of the fire. The scene was cleared Saturday evening at 10:10 PM. Several recalls were made on Sunday because of the fire reigniting in certain areas. Roughly 10 acres of land were burned in the blaze. Bagwell said the cause of the fire has not been determined, but foul play is suspected by investigators.
A forest fire warning was in effect throughout the weekend on the Eastern Shore due to the low humidity and the high winds. All citizens were advised to properly discard all smoking materials and items to avoid brush and timber fires. Lack of rain has caused the fire danger to be extreme and caution should continue. Showers and thunderstorms expected during the middle of the week should help reliveve some of the dry conditions.



Pictured: Pictures of the blaze on Neal Parker Road Saturday. Photos courtesy of Bloxom Fire Chief Jody Bagwell

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