Multiple grass fires contained along i-40 in north carolina, Burlington NC
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Fire & ArsonAccording to the dispatch call, multiple grass fires occurred along interstate 40 near mile markers 142 to 145 in Burlington, North Carolina. Fire units responded quickly to the flames, extinguishing the fires and bringing the situation under control without injuries or further incident reported.
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05:34
Transcript:
00:00
Engine five on scene.
00:01
We have a working grass fire.
00:03
Engine five will be assuming I-40 command.
00:12
Engine 6, you want to go ahead and extinguish that fire at the air.
00:15
We'll work on this one up here.
00:18
Hi, Sperman, if we got the first one, y'all get the second one.
00:20
We're going to pull an inch in the creek corner, two and a half, in case this thing spreads a little bit of us up to wind commission.
00:27
We'll work on this one.
00:29
Next or have a unit block for engine five and engine six, please.
00:33
We're going to take lane four in the emergency lane.
00:38
Truck 1, copy.
00:39
We're getting on there, stay now.
00:45
Copy, thank you. Okay, thank you.
00:50
Trolls, spot 12, checking for real foot.
00:57
For a single 50 duration.
00:59
Ten.
01:07
Man from fire attack number two,
01:10
Fire was extinguished.
01:11
Y'all good down there?
01:15
Yeah, but yeah, we're almost got this extinguish.
01:17
We'll tell communications here in a second.
01:20
It's under control.
01:22
Got it.
01:27
Car one drug one old thing.
01:32
You go responding to I-40.
01:35
Can you advise if there are additional fires at the 142 area?
01:43
12. Code 44.
01:49
Copy at 1436 hours.
01:55
Engine 6 and car 1, trying to figure out if there is an additional grab fire at the 142 area.
02:07
Stand by, Warren.
02:10
In case this is car 1, I'll be investigating the area at the 142.
02:22
At Chief from Engine 6, we got ours in stinguish, we're getting a hose up, we still got a for a tank if you need us to move forward.
02:33
We got another fire down here just before Maple Avenue.
02:36
Go ahead and respond this direction.
02:39
EG6 got relocated.
02:51
Alright.
02:56
I've got communications.
03:01
Cobby, you go ahead and advise them that the fire is under control of 144 mile markers.
03:09
First and second fires under control at the 144.
03:13
One additional fire at the 145, just before the 145.
03:18
I've got units in route to this location already.
03:29
Call Warren, we hand your way now.
03:33
Front jump line is sufficient, but we need long hose.
03:40
Jump line will be fine.
03:41
You might can even use a water can.
03:44
I'm checking now to see if there's a fourth location possibly.
03:47
You'll see a silver truck parked here at this third location.
03:51
Got it.
04:02
We're rolling up our hose now and won't be available to take another fire if you find another one.
04:10
Now it's just two spots here together just prior to the 145.
04:16
Copy. We'll head that way in just a minute.
04:23
You might want to pull down repositioning apparatus to continue blocking.
04:31
The iMAP is behind us.
04:32
We'll move up to engine 6 right now and hopefully IMAP will stay here with 5 until they get loaded.
04:40
Copy that.
04:46
We're about to head that way as well.
04:52
We're on from Engine 5.
04:53
We're in the route to you.
04:58
But you could just proceed to engine 6's location.
05:04
I got it.
05:09
From truck one, we're behind you now too.
05:16
Engine 8, Colisean Boulevard and Hullbrook Street.
05:21
1050 P.C.
05:22
Alpha 6.
05:27
Good here,
05:29
Agent 5.
05:31
Call 1 you caught fire on the control.
05:33
Fire is out.
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I-40, Burlington, NC
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