Mountain fire burning on Sleepy Creek

photo by Stacy Schultz

A brush fire called into Morgan County 911 this afternoon has grown into a mountain fire still blazing on the west side of Sleepy Creek Mountain near White’s Gap. Fire crews from at least four states were dispatched to the area of Mountain Run Road, just north of the White’s Gap public access road into the 22,000-acre Sleepy Creek Wildlife Management Area. By sundown, the fire had grown to at least…