Two trees and ground vegetation fire near Monroe County, Monroe County IL
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Fire & ArsonFire crews responded to a fire near Monroe County involving two trees and nearby ground vegetation. Power lines appeared down, possibly damaged by a fallen tree.
Audio|Heard on: Monroe County Sheriff and EMA, Waterloo Fire
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02:52
Transcript:
00:00
55 L2 you can you see where I'm trying to that lie that?
00:09
Whatever line you guys give me, make sure it has foam on it.
00:12
The tree is hollow.
00:14
One,
00:19
you want the booster line down there?
00:25
5902, are you at the tree?
00:29
Yeah, but we got multiple spot fires down here on the ground below the tree.
00:34
If you can, I guess it's right to have the 18 turn around or whatever, Greg, that booster line down there.
00:48
You guys were talking about this tree about eight inches thick,
00:51
the whole top of the trees on fire.
00:53
Is that the one you guys were seeing?
00:58
I can't see where you're at, but if you see where my light shining at,
01:04
it's that tree there.
01:09
All right, in that case, we've got two trees on fire.
01:17
Yeah, I just followed the lines down straight to right where that's at right there.
01:22
I don't know where the other lines go that are coming in from the east side.
01:31
Two, can you tell how far you walk till the booster line even reach?
01:35
Well,
01:39
too, is there one down further in the hole there, or is that one just that one to your right right there?
01:47
If you can see me standing on this log, this is a tree that came down.
01:51
I'm thinking that may have snapped the line.
01:54
There's a tree on fire about 10 yards in front of me, and then the one that you were shining about 20 yards in front of me is also the top of it's just smoldering a little bit.
02:03
And then there's multiple little spot fires on the ground below it for members.
02:07
It looks like the power lines hanging on that tree closer to you,
02:11
just kind of hanging down.
02:17
Sad for you.
02:18
It looks like the primary and neutral are down.
02:25
We don't know which way that feeds from, if it's coming from towards Hanover, towards you, or if it's opposite.
02:33
I just, I can't find the line down on this side.
02:36
I hate to send guys down there without knowing exactly where it's at.
02:42
I would say more than likely it's going to come from your side, from the D-DAT road side,
02:48
since this is all a dead end back here and that drops off the bluff.
02:51
So I'm probably going to say it's coming from your side.
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Monroe County, IL
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