A weekend outbreak of woods fires in the state’s sandhills belt north of here abated yesterday.

Scattered rains helped fire fighters bring blazes under control.

Between three and four thousand acres of Cheraw State park burned, and hundreds of acres burned over at nearby Fort Jackson, and 20 miles north of here near Blaney, in fires Sunday.

Fire broke out again yesterday at Cheraw, but quickly was brought under control.

Winds fanned the flames to make the situation tough all day Sunday. Damage from the fires was doubly serious, as heat choked off rising sap in trees not destroyed by flames.

The Fort Jackson fire burned over between 5,000 and 8,000 acres of the military reservation, and about 1,000 acres of adjacent private lands, and two small, unoccupied frame dwellings.

About 200 acres of Croft State park near Spartanburg was burned over, in a blaze that was brought under control.

Mop-up operations yesterday were directed from an airplane by state Forestry commission fire control engineer John McLees. He kept in contract with scattered grounds crew by radio.

State Forester C. H. Flory urged the greatest caution in the use of matches and cigarets in wooded areas, and in brush and field burning.

He asked that notice be given in advance to county forest rangers, or the nearest fire tower, of any plans to burn brush or fields.