Smoke reported near Ambrose Rucker Road comes from controlled burn, Amherst County VA
Fire & ArsonFire and emergency units responded to reports of smoke near Ambrose Rucker Road. The smoke was determined to be from a controlled fire on Bald Mountain. No active fire threat was found at the location of the smoke reports.
Audio|Source: Amherst County Public Safety
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Transcript:
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Nelson Fire need units to respond to the area of Ambrose-rucker Road, and Eelan Road,
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for some smoke in the air, unsure where it's coming from.
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First dispatch, 1402, all responding units, off one.
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Ambrose Chief, please you're out.
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Tim.
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806 in row.
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104, I copy 138 and 806 in route.
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800.
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I'm sorry about that.
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I just received a phone call for a lot of smoke in the area as well.
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Right here around Station 1,
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about a lot of haze in the air.
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I'm going to head toward that area, see if I can get a vantage point.
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Can you check with our screen and see if they've been doing any burns today?
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Yes.
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Amherst, big out on deputy chief too.
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Hi. Yes,
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man, just wanted to pass along to you guys.
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We've had a couple smoke investigations over in our area.
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Talk to a person with the Park Service.
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They believe in maybe smoke drifting from the Bald Mountain fire in Craig County.
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Just wanted to make you guys aware of that.
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Tenfold.
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I'll just direct with that.
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I'm going to give Forest Service a call and just see if they've got any map modeling that's
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better intel.
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Okay.
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Okay.
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Hempers, 138's on Ambrill Surruptor.
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There is a heavy smell of smoke, but I smelled that all the way out at Maple Creek and Miner's Branch Road.
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800.
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Go ahead.
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165 also called in and advised that it's in the area of Walls Ferry and Ambros Rucker.
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And I don't know if it's helpful, but my caller at 870 missed-over drive says it smells like burning weeds to him.
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He also can't see any singular column of smoke, just a haze in the air that he believes it's coming from west of him.
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One's on eight, the station one.
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I just spoke with the Forest Service.
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They do believe it's come from Bald Mountain.
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They did some burnout last night.
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He said it's probably crested the mountain in the last hour.
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He's going to go to the parkway and check.
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Give me a call back.
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But unless we have specifics, I don't know there's anything really we're going to find.
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10.4, we seem to be getting several calls now.
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Yeah, it's important.
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It's moved in pretty heavy here.
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Ambrose Rucker Rd, Virginia 24574
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