PICKENS COUNTY, S.C. —

If you see billowing smoke in Pickens County this week, you may be looking at a prescribed burn.

Crews have started conducting the intentional fires in parts of the Poe Creek State Forest near Table Rock State Park.

Tom Dooley, who represents the South Carolina Forestry Commission, said the group, consisting of 60 members from across the country, plans to cover 2,000 acres of controlled fire in the span of two weeks.

This is part of a program called the Southern Blue Ridge TREX, which works to educate aspiring and current fire professionals.

On Friday, crews took WYFF News 4 on a walk through their most recent burn area, around 30 acres of woods. Most of the embers have been extinguished since the soil was first sparked on Wednesday, but the area is still prom

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