Officials early Wednesday battled a brush fire in a residential area in Fayette County.
Tyrone police temporarily closed Senoia Road from Crabapple Lane to Dogwood Road after a dump truck caught fire on private property and sent flames spreading through area brush. And CSX railroad officials were notified that trains could not pass through the area.
Just after 8:45 a.m., Senoia Road reopened.
It wasn’t clear how the fire started, but Tyrone police Chief Brandon Perkins said no one was injured in the blaze.
The blaze raged as crews in northwest Georgia worked to contain brush fires that started Tuesday afternoon and ripped through nearly 200 acres in Floyd County.
North Georgia is in the midst of one of the worst droughts. Fayette is in an “extreme” drought, the second most severe drought classification, according to the U.S. Drought Monitor.
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