DeKalb County firefighters extinguished a large brush fire on the northern edge of Stone Mountain Park on Monday evening with the help of park officials and the Georgia Forestry Commission, authorities said.
The fire was found in the woods near the Stone Mountain Freeway interchange with Jefferson Davis Drive, according to DeKalb fire Capt. Jaeson Daniels. Flames were first reported form the end of Historic View, a residential road just north of Stone Mountain Freeway that dead-ends at a private, gated driveway.
Credit: Jason Getz
Credit: Jason Getz
Daniels said firefighters contained the initial blaze and that a large wooded area also caught on fire. However, no homes or other structures were in danger and no injuries were reported.
Investigators are working to determine how the fire started.
The heavily wooded area is across Stone Mountain Lake from the tourist village at the center of the park. The Stone Mountain Golf Club, on the eastern side of the lake, is the only heavily trafficked section of the park near the area affected by the fire.
A few wisps of smoke hung in the air Monday afternoon over the woods, but the strongest evidence of the fire was multiple fire engines parked on the shoulder of the Stone Mountain Freeway. At Exit 7 for Hugh Howell Road, a fire truck was joined by at least eight other service vehicles, many of them belonging to Georgia Power. No firefighters or other emergency responders could be seen from the road.
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