Pumpkintown Fire Department

10/11/2025

🔆Date: 10.11.2025 🔆Time: 9AM - 4PM
🔆Address: Table Rock Wesleyan Camp and Retreat Center
The countdown is on—the fall festival is almost here! Our talented vendors have spent the summer crafting one-of-a-kind treasures just for you. Why not get a jump on your Christmas shopping and find the perfect gifts for your loved ones? Spend the day with us and enjoy unique handmade goods, delicious treats, lively music, a petting zoo, and so much more!

10/11/2025

Come hungry and curious—this Saturday, the Pumpkintown Fire Department Fall Festival is bursting with flavor and fun! Taste your way through 10 food trucks, discover one-of-a-kind finds from 125 craft vendors, tap your toes to live music, make new furry friends at the petting zoo, and take in breathtaking views. Pack your favorite chair and get ready to relax, laugh, and connect. With Clemson on the road, there’s no better moment to feast, explore, and celebrate with neighbors!

🔆Date: 10.11.2025 🔆Time: 9AM - 4PM

🔆Address: Table Rock Wesleyan Camp and Retreat Center

04/29/2025

04/28/2025

Please pray for the family of Mr. Olin Masters as they go through this difficult time. Mr. Olin served his community for 30+ years as a Volunteer Firefighter and a member of the Fire Board for the Pumpkintown Fire Department. He will be missed dearly.

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04/08/2025

TABLE ROCK, PERSIMMON RIDGE FIRES DECLARED 100% CONTAINED

Forestry Commission officials announced Tuesday the Table Rock Complex fires, which burned through 15,000-plus acres in Greenville and Pickens counties and part of North Carolina, have been fully contained.

The decision to declare the fires 100 percent contained followed another round of significant rainfall that moved through the area Monday. The Table Rock Fire ignited March 21 and burned 13,845 acres before being contained, while the Persimmon Ridge Fire burned 2,128 acres after igniting March 22.

Resources remaining on the fires will continue to focus on suppression repair, which involves stabilizing exposed soil with seed and straw to prevent erosion and remove dirt and debris from stream crossings. Water bars will also be installed on containment lines to divert surface water runoff back into the woods.

The fires will be considered controlled once it has been determined that firefighting resources are no longer needed at the site.

04/05/2025

04/05/2025

It’s that time of year again folks!!! Order your Boston Butt for Memorial Day weekend now. Support the Pickens County Fire Chiefs Associations 3rd Annual Boston Butt fundraiser. Details are on the flyer. Pre-pay on the secure link and pick it up on May 23rd ay the locations listed. All proceeds go toward the Pickens County Fire Chief’s Association Scholarship Fund!!

04/03/2025

TABLE ROCK COMPLEX UPDATE - APRIL 3, 2025

*This will be the final update for the Table Rock Complex

TABLE ROCK FIRE
SIZE: 13,845 acres
-13,210 acres (SC)
-635 acres (NC)
CONTAINMENT: 91%
START DATE: March 21, 2025
CAUSE: Human-caused
On Wednesday, firefighters secured the perimeter of the Table Rock Fire. Fire resources will continue to patrol and mop-up any remaining hotspots as containment nears 100%. Today's focus will shift to suppression repair, which involves stabilizing exposed soil with seed and straw to prevent erosion and remove dirt and debris from stream crossings. Firefighters will install water bars on containment lines, which are small diagonal ridges built across the fireline to divert surface water runoff back into the woods. Crews will complete backhauling equipment today.

PERSIMMON RIDGE FIRE
SIZE: 2,078 acres
CONTAINMENT: 99%
START DATE: March 22, 2025
CAUSE: Human-caused
Firefighters on the Persimmon Ridge Fire will focus on suppression repair and backhauling of equipment today. Fire engines will continue to patrol the containment lines and extinguish any remaining hotspots near the fire perimeter.

SAFETY MESSAGE: Slow down and move over when encountering firefighters on the road. Firefighters, engines, and equipment may move slowly or stop on local roads. Drivers are urged to slow down and give fire crews space to work.

WEATHER AND FIRE BEHAVIOR: The moist weather pattern moving through the area has deposited between 0.5 and 1 inch of rain on the fires over the last twenty-four hours. Today, high temperatures should reach 80 degrees, with relative humidity not dropping below 60%. Winds will be between 5 and 10 mph, with gusts up to 20 mph in the afternoon.

CLOSURES/EVACUATIONS: All evacuation orders related to the Table Rock and Persimmon fires have been lifted.

BURN BAN: There are no burn bans in place for the states of South Carolina and North Carolina.

SC Firefighter Mobilization (SC State Fire) Resources: All SC Firefighter Mobilization resources have demobilized. SC State Fire will have a SC-HART crew on standby through xFriday at Noon, as a means to provide rapid extraction of an injured wildland crew member, if needed. The Palmetto IST will remain at the incident through Friday at Noon in support of SC-HART.

Command: The Southern Area Blue Complex Incident Management Team (CIMT) is managing the Table Rock Complex, in unified command with South Carolina Forestry Commission, North Carolina Forest Service, Greenville County Emergency Management and Pickens County Emergency Management. The incident is supported by the South Carolina Emergency Management Division, South Carolina State Fire, South Carolina
Military Department, The Nature Conservancy, Greenville Water, South Carolina Department of Natural Resources, South Carolina Law Enforcement Division, USDA Forest Service and multiple local fire departments.

Zoomable map:https://www.scfc.gov/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/0403-PIO-MAP.pdf

04/02/2025

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - STATE FORESTER'S BURNING BAN TO BE LIFTED FOR REMAINING FIVE COUNTIES
*SCFC urges vigilance when burning, making notification, taking proper precautions

COLUMBIA—The State Forester’s Burning Ban will be lifted for Greenville, Horry, Oconee, Pickens and Spartanburg counties, effective at noon today.

The previously statewide burning ban was lifted for the 41 other S.C. counties Monday, March 31.

The ban is being lifted for two reasons. Weather conditions that prompted the March 21 ban, including dangerously low relative humidities and gusty winds have subsided. Additionally, tremendous progress has been made on containing the two wildfires making up the Table Rock Complex in Greenville and Pickens counties which will allow the release of resources to return to their home units for response to new wildfire ignitions. The Table Rock Complex and the Covington Drive Fire continue to be monitored using local resources.

Underlying conditions still warrant the need to be extremely vigilant when burning outdoors, as above-average fire danger and activity is expected through April, which has historically seen the worst, most damaging and costly wildfires in South Carolina. Anyone who burns outdoors and allows their fire to escape will be held accountable to the fullest extent of the law.

The lifting of the burning ban in all S.C. counties allows citizens to once again conduct safe, responsible outdoor burning, provided that all notification procedures are followed and proper precautions taken. This time of year affords a limited window for forest landowners and farmers to conduct prescribed burns, which are necessary tools for forestry and agriculture purposes.
Citizens who may plan to conduct outdoor burning of residential yard debris or prescribed burns must still notify the Forestry Commission before doing so.

Notification procedures as well as mandatory precautions for conducting burns may be found on the SCFC website: scfc.gov/protection/fire-burning/