Crews battle 100-acre brush fire in Williamson County

FAIRVIEW, Tenn. (WSMV) – Crews have fully contained a large brush fire in Williamson County.

Williamson County Fire and Rescue crews were dispatched at about 5 p.m. Sunday to a 10-acre brush fire off Zebe Lane in Fairview, according to the department. It spread quickly due to dry conditions, fire officials said, and the area’s terrain made it hard to put out the fire, which later grew to about 100 acres.

“When you get out there, you’re carrying backpacks of water, which can be very heavy,” volunteer firefighter Dinah Wade said. “Lots of hand tools, lots of very physically demanding work, on top of hiking up and down almost straight up hills.”

More than 30 crew members from the Williamson County Fire Rescue, Fairview Fire Department and Williamson County Emergency Management Agency worked to put out the fire until 9 p.m. Sunday.

At about 5:10 a.m. Monday, crews were called out again to monitor the fire after it had rekindled.

“Williamson County Fire Rescue is all volunteers,” Wade, who also serves as the department’s spokesperson, said. “We would like to spend our holiday with our families, and you can help us with that by not burning. We’re here to do a job and we want to do it well, but anything we can do to prevent fires is much needed to keep us out of harm’s way.”

Officials believe the fire spread from a warming fire started by hunters.

“We would like to remind everyone that despite the rain we have received, Williamson County is still under a burn ban,” officials said in a media release.

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