A man uses a bulldozer to control brush being burned in an open field along Robin Road in Ringgold, Ga., behind the Walgreen’s Pharmacy on Thursday afternoon. Regional representatives from the Georgia Forestry Commission, the Catoosa County Fire Department, and the parks services met to discuss the risk tornado-felled trees poses for wildfires.
Heath Morton, a Georgia Forestry Commission representative who works around Lookout Mountain, right, speaks to other regional forestry and fire department representatives during a meeting in the Catoosa County Commission room in Ringgold, Ga., to discuss the wildfire risk of tornado-felled brush and trees in the area.RINGGOLD, Ga. – Almost 10 months after tornadoes hit Ringgold, Ray Johnson’s family is still trying to get rid of big, storm-felled trees on their 30 acres inside the city limits.
Johnson came to a meeting Thursday of wildland fire officials at the Catoosa County Administrative Building to see what his options were.
“I approached some people in the tree-removal business. We had promises, but nobody showed up to get the big stuff,” he said.
Jim Sorenson of the North Georgia Fire Protection Education Team said he understood.
“People that normally would be out there fighting to buy the stuff, they’ve got a glut, and they don’t want to talk to you,” Sorenson said.