VIDEOS: At Needmore Point in Sabine County, some firefighters in training learned how to properly perform a controlled burn, a skill they say is very important. โWe can learn some things in the classroom but thereโs so many things about fire management and prescribed fires that just has to be done in the field,” Andy McCrady, a program coordinator for prescribed burns with the Texas A&M Forest Service, said. There were 15 wildland firefighters walking through the woods at Needmore Point in Sabine County. They left trails of fire behind them, burning around 36 acres. โWhile it seems kind of chaotic and strange to walk through the woods and drag your drip torch and light it on fire, itโs really a safe place to be as long as you have communication and know how to get out of the forest if you need to,โ McCrady said.
