Brush fire near east Geer Street involving homeless tents, Durham NC
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Fire & ArsonA brush fire broke out near East Geer Street involving homeless tents located on city property. Fire units are on scene working to control the vegetation fire near Ferrell Road and Junction Road.
Audio|Heard on: Durham City Fire
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05:12
Transcript:
00:00
Vegetation, wildland, brush or grass fire, 2200 block, East Geer Street, cross of Ferrell Road and Junction Road, 4-3, Engine 3.
00:20
Are you guys able to enter the woods that way or do you guys need the service rooms on the other side?
00:29
You can get there from the school side, but engine three, if you want to go to the Walmart parking lot and go to the little service road down to the homeless encampments, you'll have to knock the gate off the hinges to get in.
00:46
Copy that. We remember for the last time.
00:48
We'll be there in a couple of minutes.
00:59
Communications, Forestry 2 and 3 en route.
01:06
104, Forestry 2 and 4th Street 3 en route.
01:27
I'm not sure yet.
01:32
Copy.
01:40
10 June 9 from 9 is not there.
01:44
I think the China was unreliable.
02:05
I don't know if you're a driver on your arrival pull behind me and never feed me.
02:18
Engine down, you're almost out of water.
02:28
104. Just let us know right before we have a tapation pump, we almost got everything.
02:34
2-1-0.
02:36
All right, you're about there with water going and just start slowing up.
02:45
Three, I got that gate open for you already.
02:48
I'm just trying to clear your path out.
02:59
9A, 29B.
03:02
Go ahead.
03:07
Any.
03:09
I'm on their left.
03:14
Let me know before we cavitated, we're going to keep going until we can't.
03:20
Copy.
03:30
That's all you got into water.
03:45
Engine 3 from engine 9 driver, 711's pulling down right now so I guess they'll give you their water.
04:04
Engine 9A from engine 9 driver.
04:06
Are you good with us going to fill up real quick since you got plenty of water right there?
04:12
10 4. 5.
04:20
Disregard, I think 7.11 is coming to me now.
04:31
This is empty, Timmy monitor not sworn to me.
04:43
Engine 9 from the Title IV.
04:47
Go ahead for engine 9.
04:50
Got nine. Let me go ahead and establish command for you.
05:00
Then I'm on sleep.
05:03
Ray,
05:06
we're going to need FD10 at this location.
05:08
It's on city property back here and we got a...
05:10
A couple tents and stuff involved.
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Location mentioned:
E Geer St, Durham, NC 27704
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