Pile Burns Cause Brush Fire in Quincy

Photo by FF Jim Roberts / Mount Pleasant VFDMount Pleasant Rescue 1 and Quincy Engine 4 working remainder of hotspots.

Photo by FF Jim Roberts / Mount Pleasant VFDMount Pleasant Brush 1 looking over one of the piles.
Quincy, FL - On December 28, 2020 at 4:45 P.M., Mount Pleasant Firefighters were dispatched to a grass fire in the 400 block of Fulton Shaw Road in the Robertsville/St. Johns Community north of Quincy. This was a joint response with Robertsville VFD and the City of Quincy FD. Upon arrival of the first due departments, personnel found an estimated nine-acre grass fire that started from two pile burns that escaped and a request went out for brush apparatus. Quincy and Robertsville Firefighters were able to contain the fire. Mount Pleasant Firefighters responded with a brush truck and a rescue truck (Type 6 Engine on loan from the Florida Forest Service) and were assigned to work the perimeter with the brush and rescue trucks to assess for extension into the tree line and mop up any hot spots.