Wild Fire Blackens Lawns, Destroys Shed in Pearl

Tearing through the fences of a Pearl neighborhood -an Wednesday afternoon grass fire is just one of many burning in the Greater-Jackson area.

Charles Fairley, who lives on Pearl's Lanell Street, said his garden hose could not control the spread of flames in his grass.

"I thought I had a safe burning place in an old stump so I dumped some ashes in there the other night and yesterday the wind had come up real strong and thrown some leaves in it and it caught afire," Fairley said.

Not far away only an hour later Pearl firefighter battled quarter-acre wide flames at the East Magnolia Place neighborhood.

And in Jackson around 4:30 p.m. fire crews needed to pull over on I-220 near the Metro Center Mall to stop a spreading fire off the exit.

Hinds county was still under a burn ban on Wednesday. It was set to expire at the end of the day.

The Mississippi Forestry Commission reported online that Rankin County burn ban is in effect until further notice.

"If we see somebody burning maybe ask them to put it out. If that's a problem then call the fire department and we'd be glad to come out there and ask them to extinguish any open fires they might have," Pearl Assistant Fire Chief Brad Thornton said.

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Wild Fire Blackens Lawns, Destroys Shed in Pearl