Help with suddenly dying Fescue

[skerew]

So here is my situation. I live in Atlanta. Had a gorgeous Fescue lawn in Front and back. The lawn looked amazing in may and into half of June. I watered just as much as my neighbors with fescue lawns. I expected browning in the summer heat - but no, over about two weeks in end of June half the lawn literally shriveled up dead - there is not even any plant left at all in at least half the lawn front and back. Just keeps getting worse and eventually turning to dirt. This has never happened before even in prolonged drought years. I understand areas of a lwn drying up and dying but this is almost the entire lawn. Is it possible my lawn care guys put the wrong thing on here or overfertilized? I cant explain this. They have already told me it was not the result of fungus or grubs. they say it is just drought which sounds like BS to me. Any ideas here? I have pics although I don't know how to post them

[rainbowgardener]

Don't have answers, but instructions for posting pics are in the Introductory section under Helpful Tips and Suggestions for New Members.

[Alan in Vermont]

If you "lawn care" providers do some sort of monthly fertilizing program there is a good chance that has something to do with it. There is a standing joke in lawn care circles about people who use "Tru-Green Deadlawn". They do monthly apps of what amount to straight liquid urea solutions. In good years there is enough rainfall to prevent burning and the grass just grows insanely fast. One of my clients, when I was doing cutting for a living used them and I was seeing grass growing 4" per week. When we got a several week stretch of almost no rainfall and hot weather the lawn got stressed and went brown in one week after they urea zapped it again. When they put out the contract that says they treat once a month they treat once a month regardless of lawn health. Then the bahstuds had the nerve to tell the client that it was my falt, I was cutting too short. The dingbat half of the cleint couple relayed that to me, by way of complaining of course, and I could not get it through her head that I was cutting at the same height I had been for 3 years previously. The only thing changed was that they had the fertilizer guys for the first time. As the ditz put it, "They must know what they are talking about, they're professionals." I though I was kind of professional myself but I guess not. When I downsized theirs was one of the accounts that didn't survive the first cut.