Wildfires keep Martin County crews on fireline for second weekend in a row

Flames glow behind structures Friday night in the Sansom Drive area off Big Lick Road. Inez firefighters and Kentucky Division of Forestry personnel battled the 35-acre blaze overnight into Saturday. (Photo courtesy of Inez Volunteer Fire Department)

BY ROGER SMITH
MOUNTAIN CITIZEN

INEZ — For the second weekend in a row, crews battled multiple wildfires in Martin County, responding to three separate blazes.

The first of this weekend’s fires broke out Friday night in the area of Sansom Drive off Big Lick Road. The Kentucky Division of Forestry and the Inez Volunteer Fire Department worked through the night and into Saturday.

Forestry personnel reported that the fire burned about 35 acres.

On Sunday, Inez and Pigeon Roost volunteer firefighters received a call for mutual aid to assist the Warfield Volunteer Fire Department and the Kentucky Division of Forestry with a wildfire off Fire House Lane and Hode Road in Warfield.

Smoke rises and flames creep through dry ground cover Sunday at Fire House Lane and Hode Road in Warfield. Multiple fire departments and Kentucky Division of Forestry crews responded to the wildland fire. Forestry officials estimated the fire at 40 acres. (Photo courtesy of Inez Volunteer Fire Department)

Officials said Sunday night that the fire would continue burning but no longer posed a threat to homes or businesses.

According to the Division of Forestry, the Warfield fire had affected about 40 acres.

Then, Sunday night, the Division of Forestry and local fire departments responded to yet another wildfire, this one on Little Blacklog Road in Inez.

Forestry estimated the Little Blacklog fire at 40 acres late Sunday night.

The new fires came on the heels of an exhausting stretch last weekend, when responders battled nine separate wildfires that affected 461 acres across Martin County.

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