Grass Fire Near West Marks Road Draws Multiple Departments After Midnight
Fire crews from multiple departments were dispatched after a 12:58 a.m. call reporting a grass fire near West Marks Road in the Marks area.
A grass fire near West Marks Road in the Marks area prompted multiple departments to respond after a 12:58 a.m. dispatch call, according to local dispatch recordings and incident logs. The call was logged shortly after midnight on Feb. 22, 2026, in the public dispatch feed for Quitman County.
The incident summary in the public dispatch feed records the call time as 12:58 a.m. and indicates that fire crews from multiple departments were dispatched to the scene. The records reviewed include the initial dispatch entry and the corresponding incident log entry associated with that call time for the Marks area.
Local dispatch recordings corroborate the timeline in the incident logs, showing the report was entered into the county system shortly after midnight on Feb. 22. The entries identify the location as near West Marks Road in Marks but do not provide street addresses or property names in the public summary fields available in the feed.
The logs reviewed do not include detailed operational notes in the public feed about acreage burned, suppression tactics, equipment used, or the identity of the responding departments. Those operational details are not present in the incident summary available in the public dispatch feed cited in the records.
Records reviewed on Feb. 27, 2026 show the 12:58 a.m. Feb. 22 call remains the primary public entry documenting the event in the county dispatch system. At this stage, the public incident feed supplies the initial call time, the reported location near West Marks Road, and the notation that multiple fire crews were dispatched; further information has not been posted to the public feed examined.
Quitman County residents living along West Marks Road and in Marks who observed the response or who have additional information about property impacts or injuries can expect any formal updates to appear through the county's incident reporting channels or official department releases. The dispatch log entry for 12:58 a.m. on Feb. 22, 2026 stands as the central public record of the grass fire response.
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