NCS climate anchor Derek Van Dam’s reporting on harm attributable to wildfires sweeping by means of Georgia was interrupted Friday by a girl upset that the reporter was on her property.
The indignant girl was heard yelling, “I don’t want nobody near my house! My dogs are out there. Get away, get away!” as Van Dam tried to point out the harm attributable to the mixture of drought circumstances and excessive winds.
“You got it, you got it. We are — okay,” Van Dam stated to the girl as he started strolling off the property. “Yeah, we’re going to leave it here. Okay? You got it.”
“Let’s hope Derek gets to safety there,” stated co-anchor Pamela Brown.
Earlier in his report, Van Dam stated that necessary evacuations have been underway and a brand new curfew was put in place as the fireplace continued to burn.
More than 34,000 acres have already been scorched, and some 87 homes destroyed.
“As we were setting up for this live shot, the winds shifted and changed. We put on a mask because there’s this absolutely putrid chemical burning type smell from something that is smoldering in the distance over my left shoulder,” Van Dam stated.
“We didn’t have that that smell just moments ago. But the wind shifts brought that back into it, and it started to make us feel a little bit nauseous, and lightheaded, so we put on the mask for that particular reason. But I think it really illustrates the point that the shifting winds are what’s making this firefighting effort so challenging on the ground for the firefighters,” Van Dam stated.
“Look at these scorched vehicles,” he continued. “Again, we’re in Brantley County. This is southeastern Georgia, on the scarred area from the Highway 82 fire. I mean, I’m going to have my photojournalist just kind of look inside of this vehicle, look at the destruction that something of this magnitude can do. But this was absolutely astounding — the windshield, the back windshield of this vehicle? Yeah, that glass melted. You need temperatures over 2,500°F in order to melt glass. So, that just gives you an idea of how hot it was.”
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