VIDEO: City of Aiken crews battled a brush fire Thursday afternoon along Dyches Road.
The fire was reported around 1:30 p.m. on the road just south of the University of South Carolina Aiken, according to Aiken Department of Public Safety dispatchers.
No structures were threatened, but crews were working to get it under control around 1:45 p.m.
Coincidentally, a car caught fire and burned in the same area and around the same time, but the Aiken Department of Public Safety told News 12 the events were unrelated. A viewer sent News 12 some video of the car fire that happened at 1:20 p.m. in the McDonald’s parking lot on Aiken-Augusta Highway just east of where Dyches Road runs alongside the highway. Also Thursday, the Hitchcock Woods Foundation planned a 40-acre controlled burn not far away.