Large brush fire with 5-10 foot flames near Rio Bravo Blvd, Bernalillo County NM
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WildfireAs discussed during the dispatch call, a large brush or grass fire appears to be burning near Rio Bravo Boulevard Southwest and Rio Grande with flames approximately 5 to 10 feet high. Emergency units are responding and attempting to access the area. The fire size and spread are currently unknown but do not appear to be spreading rapidly. Command is operating in an offensive strategy.
Audio|Heard on: Albuquerque-Bernalillo County-Rio Rancho Fire/Rescue
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08:24
Transcript:
00:00
Additional information we're getting multiple calling parties advising of very large flames about 15 to 20 feet high,
00:07
approximate half acre size.
00:09
The best description was the size of a regular house lot.
00:13
Half and quarter acre.
00:19
Battalion 8, strip 20 additional information.
00:22
Battalion 8 to fire control, if you could start tender 33.
00:26
Copy. And AFR will be sending Engine 1, Brush 1, and they're calling it Engine 317 is going to be like a house 338 is.
00:43
Engine One, Brush One, Engine Three Seventeen,
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respond to an eighty-two delta eight large brush or grass fire at Rio Bravo Boulevard Southwest and Rio Grande.
00:57
Engine One, Brush One, Engine Three Seventeen respond to an eighty two delta eight large brush or grass fire at Rio Bravo Boulevard Southwest and Rio Grande.
01:16
Battalion eight, sir.
01:25
Tender 33, you are responding to an 82 delta eight oh wildland fire.
01:32
Large brush or grass fire.
01:34
Fire box 380193.
01:38
Incident address near Rio Bravo Boulevard Southwest and Rio Grande.
01:42
Rio Grande.
01:45
Respond to an eighty-two delta eight large brush or grass fire at Rio Bravo Boulevard Southwest and Rio Grande.
01:56
Battalion one,
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respond to an eighty-two delta eight large brush or grass fire at Rio Bravo Boulevard Southwest and Rio Grande.
02:12
Engine two three to responding, fifty-five.
02:14
You guys can shut down a code one.
02:17
Copy, we're about 30 s from you, sir.
02:21
Fire control, copy.
02:26
Engine three three, are you writing in the tender just to confirm?
02:30
Rescue one five, you are responding for high fivers.
02:33
What's your ETA, guys?
02:35
Yeah, you can put Engine Three Hundred and Thirty-Three out of service.
02:38
Standard Thirty-Three in route.
02:40
Copy that. Good copy.
02:41
That's how I have you.
02:43
Pavilion Five Two Alarms.
02:45
Fine beyond that. Meet you Delta.
02:47
The CAD is recommending Battalion One, sir.
02:50
We can add you to it if you'd like.
02:54
Engine 338 is in the area.
02:57
We do have eyes on the fire, approximately 5 to 10 foot flame length.
03:00
We're trying to make access through the gates of the Poco Loco entrance on the south side of Rio Bravo.
03:07
Copy that, I was just making sure he was on it.
03:10
No worries appreciated.
03:12
Copy.
03:14
Eyes on fire, south side of Rio Bravo, east side of the river.
03:18
Five to 10 ft flames attempting to find access.
03:25
Rescue 15, this is unit five five five.
03:27
We're pulling up.
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Rescue three, engine 338.
03:31
There's a gate and access right here if you have to rescue.
03:42
Rescue 31 units are responding to a 29-1 MVA injuries.
03:49
Firebox 216404 incident address near Eagle Ranch Road Northwest, Herod.
04:00
Engine 32 Battalion 8.
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Battalion 8, Engine 3-2, go ahead.
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Battalion 5-0R, go ahead and put me on that 82 Delta.
04:11
I think I'm going to be a little bit further south than Battalion 1.
04:14
Sir, you want us to take this other road and see if we can make access going westbound on Pocaloco?
04:22
Left.
04:24
Copy that, Battalion 5.
04:25
You're on it.
04:26
We'll be on South Tech 1.
04:29
Yeah, I was trying to look on my.
04:32
I was trying to look on my map now to see if we could have access to that location.
04:36
Stand by.
04:39
Hook letter seven.
04:42
AFR Battalion One on South Joplin.
04:45
Battalion One.
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Rush Seven's on BC.
04:53
Battalion Five to Battalion One, I got myself on this fire.
04:55
It's up to you if you want it.
05:05
Battalion Five, respond to an eighty-two delta eight large brush grass fire at Rio Bravo Boulevard Southwest and Rio Grande.
05:17
Battalion Five,
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respond to an eighty-two delta eight large brush or grass fire at Rio Bravo Boulevard Southwest and Rio Grande.
05:33
Rescue 22.
05:36
Rescue 335, control.
05:39
Go ahead, rescue 22.
05:42
Where's the 32?
05:45
Battalion 8 to engine 32.
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Go for engine 32.
05:52
Rescue 33 arriving at UNMH, ending mileage 205173.
06:00
Good evening, Alarm Room.
06:01
We are at the location of Eagle Ranch Paradise.
06:04
We know there's just some limited information on this event.
06:07
Do we have any updated location information because we're not seeing anything here?
06:11
I think 205173 at 23.
06:14
Stand by, let me take a look.
06:17
Does it look like if we access it off the bar ditch, just a little bit west of our location now?
06:26
Thank you.
06:28
Thirty-one evil red paradise.
06:32
Yeah,
06:34
sir. It looks like we could possibly get through it on this road next to the bar ditch.
06:39
If you'd likely go in and try to investigate, see what we can do.
06:44
We have a response, which would be going to EA.
06:46
You're being one of the SO's captains, requesting you code three.
06:51
Yeah, that's correct.
06:52
If you want to reposition yourself to that, just to that bar ditch just to the west of you and make access to that gate.
07:08
Engine 11,
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respond to a 52 Charlie 3 fire alarm commercial building near Eagle Ranch Road Northwest.
07:21
Engine 21,
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respond to a 51 Charlie 3 fire alarm commercial building near Eagle Ranch Road Northwest.
07:39
Engine three two, copy.
07:41
Making access through bar ditch on the west side.
07:49
Battalion eight for control.
07:52
Battalion eight.
07:54
Yeah, we're arriving on scene.
07:56
I'll be assuming Rio Bravo command.
07:58
We're going to be remaining in the offensive strategy.
08:01
We do have approximately maybe a five to 10 foot fan length unknown on the sides of the fire.
08:08
It doesn't seem to be spreading right now.
08:12
We're just trying to make access to it.
08:16
Copy, taking assuming Rio Bravo command.
08:19
We'll be in the offensive strategy five to 10 ft frame lengths, unknown size of fire.
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This transcript is automatically generated by AI from live dispatch audio. Dispatch communications may include background noise, overlapping speakers, or rapidly evolving situations, and automated transcription may not capture all details or context.
Location mentioned:
Rio Bravo Blvd SW, New Mexico
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