If you were driving just about anywhere in the Augusta area, you couldn’t help but see the smoke in the air from the huge brush fire. Investigators say it started on Fort Gordon, then made it’s way off base. It lasted for hours…but how it started is something investigators still aren’t too sure of. WJBF News Channel 6’s Barclay Bishop has more.

WJBF News Channel 6 can confirm that a Fort Gordon brush fire, near the border on post at the reservoir, is 80-percent under control. Heavy smoke still covers much of the overhead sky. And WJBF has learned some some people were being evacuated from Belfair Estates. WJBF has a crew on scene and will update as information comes in. Click the story for some great viewer-submitted pictures.