After a night of flooding, crews with the Pine Valley Fire Department started assessing their community Saturday morning, checking homes for damage and looking for impacts left by the rainfall.

Robert Hardy, the department’s chief, said that while the community didn’t receive a significant amount of rain, the burn scar left by the Forsyth Fire compounded the problem.

“We got hit pretty hard last night,” he said.

Hardy did not think any homes had been “completely swamped,” but said some homes probably had a foot of water or so come into their garage or through the front door. No one, however, has been displaced, he said.

As the department’s firefighters look through their community and prepare for a day of filling sandbags to redirect water away from homes, other communities throughou

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