Controlled burn confirmed as intentional pine tree and brush fire, Blacksburg VA
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Fire & ArsonA controlled burn of pine trees and brush was reported near Thomas Lane. Responders confirmed the fire was supervised and not a threat. The reporting person initially smelled smoke but had no further details. The controlled burn continued without incident.
Audio|Heard on: Montgomery County Public Safety
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02:22
Transcript:
00:00
PENRBU budget fire, response control, burn
00:03
Near Thomas Lane, cross street Wall Branch Road, Monroe, Monroe Lane, Operate BSD1, Time Clear, 1822.
00:17
CFR
00:29
MCPD N-RB N-RV campus is home C.
00:35
104-1853
00:44
D.
00:46
Fire. An RV, engine 11.
00:50
Engine 11.
00:53
Let me show us en route.
00:57
Engine 11 are showing you en route to control burn in the area near Thomas Lane.
01:02
If you have one control burn that was called in earlier, I've got two houses up from the RP.
01:11
106 number.
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106.
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106. Show me en route.
01:19
Have you made contact with the sign number that you have for the controlled burn?
01:26
104, we placed a call out to the person that's doing the controlled burn.
01:30
They said that the controlled burn is still going, they're burning pine trees and brush.
01:36
The RP who calls it in didn't have any information other than (name withheld) did with unknown if it was a house or grass,
01:45
but she smelled something was maybe on fire.
01:51
Okay, well, we're going to back our response down to non-emergent.
01:55
May contact with that phone number again, just make sure they're with it.
01:58
And if they are,
02:00
it's not out of control,
02:03
we're going to clear.
02:06
10-4[1]. When we called the person that is doing the control burn, they did state they were out with the fire currently.
02:15
The reporting party did advise that her daughter did go outside and was able to confirm it was on fire and that somebody was out with it.
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10-4: Acknowledgment/Affirmative
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Location mentioned:
Thomas Ln, Blacksburg, VA 24060
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