Wildfire burns 9.3 acres after mobile home power pole collides with power line

Photo courtesy Brian Panell. This aerial view shows a wildfire that started on the shoulder of Bettys Creek Road near Colony Road in Dillard April 19. Multiple agencies responded to the scene and the wildfire burned 9.3 acres.

Megan Broome/The Clayton Tribune. Flames could be seen as firefighters worked to extinguish a brush fire that began on the shoulder of Bettys Creek Road near Colony Road in Dillard April 19. Mutual aid was requested from Otto, N.C. with Georgia Forestry Commission and U.S. Forest Service also responding. The wildfire burned approximately 9.3 acres.

Megan Broome/The Clayton Tribune. Firefighters worked to extinguish a brush fire that began on the shoulder of Bettys Creek Road near Colony Road in Dillard April 19. Mutual aid was requested from Otto, N.C. with Georgia Forestry Commission and U.S. Forest Service also responding. The wildfire burned approximately 9.3 acres.

Megan Broome/The Clayton Tribune. Rabun County Fire Services Assistant Chief Justin Upchurch, left, shows a Georgia Forestry Commission worker where the fire on Bettys Creek at Colony Road started.

Megan Broome/The Clayton Tribune. Georgia Forestry Commission uses its bulldozer on scene for a wildfire at Bettys Creek and Colony Road in Dillard.

Photo courtesy of Brian Panell. A thermal imaging view of the wildfire at Bettys Creek and Colony Road in Dillard.

Megan Broome/The Clayton Tribune. Rabun County Fire Services responds to a wildfire at Bettys Creek and Colony Road in Dillard.