Truck and brush fires on interstate highway controlled, Botetourt County VA
Fire & ArsonA truck hauling a trailer caught fire on the right shoulder of Interstate 81 near mile marker 149 northbound in Virginia. The fire spread to brush in the highway median nearby. Fire and emergency medical teams responded and successfully controlled both fires.
Audio|Source: Botetourt Fire and EMS
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Transcript:
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Rush two, engine two, tanker two for our last caller, the truck is going to be fully engulfed at this time on the right hand side of the road.
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Bata dot, NG2.
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Bata dot, N2.
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Bata dot, I'm new to.
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Agency is arriving.
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149 over north.
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We have a truck hauling a trailer on the right-hand shoulder, heavily involved.
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We show Captain Simmons, establishing command.
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Projection 2 arrived on the seat at the 149 of our 9 northbound truck and on a trailer heavily involved.
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Simmons in command 1754.
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The field still morale and fire of the truck.
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I do not know we have a P.
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Tanker 2 from Engine 2.
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Continue your original assignment coming behind the tanker.
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Brush 2.
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We have a way around about, go ahead.
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Brush 2, there is a separate but related rush fire in the median,
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about 1st of a mile south of us.
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If you will stop and handle that.
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Okay,
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where I can access from just the northbound side.
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Correct.
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That is affirmative.
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Bata-top, medic three.
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Bata-top, three.
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Bata-tot-3. Medi-3.
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We're transporting to LewisGale, Salem.
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Trainport-Losegale, Salem, 1756.
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T-4th-N-Lis-Gale.
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Trey-Fort-N-Lis-Gale.
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Bautil Tew's arriving.
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You're arriving.
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1758.
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Tanger 2, I'm going on water for now.
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That's good, awfully hard to hook up to you the way everything's parked.
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Question two, phone command.
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You know if you need extra help up there.
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Name and two crew up to you.
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Affirm. Affirm.
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Bobatown, Medic.
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Medic 7.
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Medics 7.
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Arriving, RMH.
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Robin, RMH, 1800.
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Command brush two.
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Command brush two.
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Go ahead.
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We got the fire control up here in the media.
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I got it.
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You need anything else to you go ahead.
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I think we're okay right now.
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Bottom top, one attack command.
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One forty down command.
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We have both fires, docked down under control.
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We're at both fires, knock down under control. We are up,
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and it's own team can't handle.
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Talk to be about fires knocked down and under control units on scene can't handle 1801.
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I-81, Virginia
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