Brush fire near Lyman and Walton streets with railroad track access, Asheville NC
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Fire & ArsonAccording to the dispatch call, there was a slow-moving brush fire spread across about one-third of an acre near Lyman Street and Walton Street. Fire crews coordinated with Norfolk Southern Railroad to stop train traffic so they could access the fire area through the railroad tracks and begin extinguishing the fire in the wooded area.
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07:50
Transcript:
00:00
Communications from Engine 2.
00:04
Agent 2, go ahead.
00:07
Two is unseen in the area of that brush fire.
00:11
We've communicated with half M10 at this point.
00:13
Looks like we're going to have to attempt to walk in and locate the seat of the fire.
00:22
Okay,
00:23
engine 2 at (number withheld).
00:29
Fresh egg, ground.
00:37
Okay, hour five is in the enforcement entry.
00:45
Coms from Agent Six.
00:49
Agent Six, go ahead.
00:52
Six is on scene.
00:53
This subject is just panhandling.
00:55
No emergency.
00:56
You can't really sell the units.
00:57
Shruth in six back and six.
01:02
Okay, I'll read everyone now and council.
01:08
Communications, Clinton, 01.
01:11
Okay, N-1. Go ahead.
01:13
She's fleeing the scene.
01:16
It's going to be plate number (number withheld) at a pewter-color bolt wagon.
01:25
She's been huffing some kind of substance.
01:28
She's going behind Engels at this time, got front-end damage to her car.
01:37
Copy plate number (number withheld) Volkswagen going behind Ingalls and she was huffing.
01:50
Affirmative, she's going on to Smokey Park at this time going through the light.
01:55
I can't tell the east or west.
01:56
The building's in my way.
02:02
AP-1s in service.
02:08
Communications from FN-10 on fire, too.
02:18
Okay, 1123.
02:24
You go ahead and place me on this call, please.
02:30
Okay,
02:32
we'll do. Italian 2 from Engine 2.
02:41
Go engine two.
02:45
We are going to need to shut the tracks down, try to get brush eight through here on the tracks.
02:52
We do have a slow moving fire but spread throughout the wooded area here.
02:58
That's going to be their only way to access, I believe.
03:04
Okay, I'll copy.
03:06
Tom's from Italian, too.
03:13
Communications from Italian 2.
03:15
Italian 2, go ahead.
03:19
Can you contact Norfolk Southern, let them know that we'll need to shut down the line.
03:24
We're going to need to cross the train tracks to access the fire.
03:30
Copy that.
03:31
Press 11.
03:39
Question, brush 8.
03:41
Okay.
03:44
Yes, you've pressed your emergency button is everything, okay?
03:52
Get for you.
03:59
engine to you from the time to go ahead are we going to have better access from the Lyman Street side or from the Walton Street side Walton Street side well we need access from the Walton Street side but we won't be able to stretch that so we're going to have to come towards Lyman actually on the tracks.
04:32
Okay, I copy.
04:37
Engine 2 will a rush line be sufficient to explainer so far?
04:44
It will. Yes, sir.
04:50
Rush 8, did you copy that?
04:56
Brett A, copy.
05:01
Brush 8 from Engine 2.
05:05
Go ahead.
05:07
How many feet of brush line do you have on your rig?
05:16
We've got a 200 feet.
05:18
That was real.
05:25
Copy that, yeah, you're going to have to come in on the track.
05:32
Engine 2 from a tiny tube, can you give me a size up on the size of the fire?
05:40
Essentially, Chief, we kind of just have a mop-up.
05:43
We've got probably a little less than third of an acre spread pretty good throughout the bottoms of some trees and stuff.
05:54
It's not moving fast.
06:00
Okay, I copy.
06:01
I'm here on Seeing Behind Engine 2.
06:03
I'll be assuming command from here.
06:05
Break, Combs, from Battalion 2?
06:09
Go ahead.
06:12
I'll be semi-command of the Walton Street fire.
06:15
I'll be on Walton Street.
06:19
Battalion 2 at (number withheld), be advised.
06:21
Norfolk Southern has been advised and they're stopping all traffic.
06:24
Just let me know when they can resume.
06:27
Okay, thank you.
06:33
Tinker 12 from command.
06:38
Go ahead for Tinker 12.
06:40
Can you supply water to brush 8? They'll be on Lyman Street trying to access the fire.
06:49
Copyway to Lyman Street and supply engine.
06:57
Command from Brush A.
07:00
No, Rushing.
07:03
Confirming, Lyman's going to be our best access.
07:08
That is the time of this.
07:11
Gentle. Command from Mention 2.
07:18
No,
07:20
2.
07:22
Just confirming they are going to have to come to the closest tracks to Walton Street but off of Lyman and there is a parts train or two in the way.
07:34
So they're going to have to drive on the train track, is that correct?
07:38
Yes, sir.
07:44
Rotate coffee, we're going to have to drive train track.
07:48
Confirming, all train stops.
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Location mentioned:
Lyman St, Asheville, NC 28801
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