Brush fire spreads across pond requiring containment efforts, Mcrae Helena GA
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Fire & ArsonFirefighters worked to contain a brush fire near a pond in McRae-Helena. The fire spread to the other side of the pond, requiring efforts to build fire breaks and use water to suppress hot spots. Forestry personnel coordinated access to the area to assist with the fire containment.
Audio|Heard on: McRae Helena Fire Rescue
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02:10
Transcript:
00:00
Truck 1, 71.
00:04
Go ahead, sitting there.
00:07
The advice, it's already across on the other side of the pond.
00:11
We've got most of it out on this side of the pond, but it has come on to the other side of it.
00:16
Do you want to try and walk out that way and see if we can get a handline in there?
00:21
Just kind of monitor it.
00:24
See if you can get over there and catch it.
00:26
Don't put yourself in a situation where the head can trap you in.
00:29
But walk up here and see if you can cut that head off before far as your head here.
00:34
Uncle.
00:37
Back in everybody's camping, we've got a tree on fire.
00:45
If Truck 1 is running low on water, we can fill it up with this hose right here if y'all can pull it up here where we were.
00:58
Hit me one, Ben.
01:04
Go ahead.
01:06
Forestry's here, what's the best way to get in there to you?
01:10
Probably take them come in the way truck one came in, around the backside rail Moons garage.
01:16
You can come on back in here around the pond dam.
01:18
A lot of it's just hot spots, but he's going to need a fire break around it.
01:24
Ten four, he's going to get air out to you.
01:33
Truck 1 to 8.2, thank you.
01:36
Hold on. Go ahead, truck 1.
01:42
I need to refill real quick.
01:45
Pull up here where we were.
01:46
I got this hose stretched out.
01:48
I can top you off real quick.
01:55
I'm at the front of your truck.
02:03
I've got filled back up.
02:05
Something about a dream camper.
02:07
It's burning up under the bottom of it.
02:08
I've already dug a hole.
02:09
I can't get to it.
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McRae-Helena, GA
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