Topsail/Pender county North Carolina forest fire and wildfire in May 1986.

Topsail/Pender county NC forest fire and wildfire in May 1986. This is old footage from that fire, so forgive the quality. The video is like 23 years old. This fire took 10 days to put out and burned 73,000 acres inand around the Holly Shelter gameland near Hampstead NC. Also was close to Wilmington, Rocky Point, and Jacksonville NC

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• hampstead
• wildfire
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• pocosin
• 1986
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• topsail
• north
• carolina

[margauritaville]

Several "heavy's" in '86? Must of been quite a sight for the local fellows.

Seems like the "Career Fire Seasons" are getting all to frequent in the South. We're doing good in Texas this year. Our fire numbers are tracking the same as '06 & '08. We've been able to keep the acres down... It sure helps when we haven't had a 900,000 acre fire.

[luvscats69]

There was a drought in 81,85 and 86. NC used to have good sized fires like this all the time. We had a 40,000 acre fire on the coast this past year which was the first large one since the 80's I've been to TX 3 times for IA detail and loved it!

[k4ldh]

TarHeel FireFighter's getting it done....

[bofts]

Thank you for posting this. I was stationed at New River when this happened I remember it well

[bdisposition]

Heard many stories about this fire, thanks for posting.

[Sparky5459]

The cow kicked the barn down and took it with her.

[bigbadredsox]

I was stationed at Camp Lejuene when this happened. It was unreal. Watched a bunch of trees explode and watched the fire jump from one side of the road to the other.