Brush fire near airport lighting with fuel dumping reported, Dulles VA
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Fire & ArsonA brush fire ignited near the airport lighting system at Dulles International Airport. An aircraft with 290 people on board is dumping fuel as part of emergency procedures. Fire and emergency vehicles are being dispatched to assist.
Audio|Heard on: Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority (MWAA) Public Safety
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01:15
Transcript:
00:00
Are you available or can we get PD? We need somebody to get 130 ASAP to get fire vehicles out here to assist.
00:17
And we gotta get Jeff Jones a vehicle.
00:23
Alright, let me try to get him back there, but right now we're worried about the PAPIs.
00:28
The fire right now is right near the PAPIs.
00:37
Okay, 436 and 434 to the brush fire.
00:41
That's correct.
00:46
Do you have, first of all on 30s for infections?
00:55
Ops 2, ops.
00:58
All right,
00:59
United 803, 16 hours of fuel on board.
01:04
They are dumping fuel right now.
01:06
Two hundred and ninety souls on board, 290.
01:11
Have that, 16 hours W-(number withheld)-2190.
01:15
Up suit.
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Location mentioned:
Dulles International Airport (IAD), 1 Saarinen Cir, Dulles, VA 20166
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