Wildfires continue burning near Troy
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and last updated 2021-07-23 19:43:31-04
TROY â Fire managers report there has been little growth on the Burnt Peak Fire despite increased fire activity from gusty winds on Thursday.
The lightning-sparked blaze has burned 2,136 acres and is 15% contained. It s located 9 miles southwest of Troy.
Firefighters continue to patrol the existing containment lines and extend them to the north, towards Pony Mountain, and to the west, along Keeler Road.
The Friday update notes the potential for large fire growth will remain until significant rain or snow arrives on the fire area.
While there are no current evacuations, some residences in the area remain under a pre-evacuation notice.
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EDITORâS NOTE: Americaâs COVID-19 death rate has skyrocketed since Thanksgiving, and disease experts say weâre in for a hard winter. But the nation has surmounted tough times before, just as Culpeper County did in the Civil War winter of 1863-64.
In December 1863, three years of what Shakespeare would call a âgrim-visaged warâ had already devastated Culpeper.
But matters were about to get a whole lot worse for the countyâs war-weary residents hunkered down between the Rappahhanock and Rapidan rivers.
Before the Civil War concluded, two dynamics collided head-on in Culpeper County, and one reality triumphed over the other, 157 years past.