Two Oconee County fires

Seneca fire fighters put out a large trash fire late yesterday afternoon in the backyard of a Utica home on Humbert Street.  No one hurt.  According to the fire department, the fire originated from some kind of dispute, which the sheriff’s office is looking into.  A large wild fire that burned at mid afternoon north of SC 28/the Highlands Highway was contained in the vicinity of Callas Mountain.  Ground and air resources were used and, for a time, fire fighters worried that the fire would spread to summer homes at Mountain Rest Lake.