Wildfire response near Blue Ridge Parkway and Ox Creek, Buncombe County NC
WildfireA wildfire occurred near Blue Ridge Parkway and Ox Creek in North Carolina. Multiple brush units, rangers, and helicopters responded, with coordination between local fire, emergency medical services, and federal resources to control the fire and protect nearby structures and roads.
Audio|Source: Buncombe County Fire and EMS
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Transcript:
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Ranger 2, Ranger 3 on fire attack 2.
00:08
2014, Jupiter ended up to the top.
00:13
Copy that.
00:20
214 standing by at the church.
00:22
Do you want, when engine 8 gets back up here, do you want me to jump back in there with it? I can leave the UTV with my backman and he can do the shuttling.
00:34
Yeah, that's firm.
00:35
We've been just come on up to Rush Five.
00:38
We're going to be right there at Granite Gardens.
00:44
Work more.
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14.2.
00:53
You board out, token board out there.
00:59
It's only one E.
01:06
So, Haley and I don't keep her.
01:12
Oh, nice.
01:17
Command on type 2 from communications, I'm calling Highway Patrol, Sheriff's Office, Accom.
01:26
Can you repeat that?
01:29
Affirmative, I'm calling Highway Patrol.
01:31
Soft to advise they couldn't.
01:35
Okay, traffic's pretty light up here right now.
01:37
If the fire was to get up here too bad, we'll just try to put some big truss in the way.
01:46
Truck 15-2 out west, brush-eye.
01:53
Kemplin?
01:58
Press 192, off-street command.
02:05
I can go ahead.
02:08
I'm a minute away from staging, sir.
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Where do you need me?
02:15
Repeat your unit again.
02:18
This is Bruce 19.
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Rush 19, come on passion to stay on Oxford Street.
02:24
Do you meet up with Rush 5?
02:28
Rose 19, copy.
02:31
214.
02:35
214, rush 5.
02:37
My plan is just based on and I watch the spot fire.
02:40
We can hold this premise.
02:46
Top of that.
02:49
Brush five, they're under three.
02:52
Go ahead, go.
02:54
I'm trying to make my way up here, too.
02:58
We've requested a helicopter.
03:00
I don't know if we do this any goodness wind or not, but it'll be better than what we got right now.
03:09
Understood, Ranger 3.
03:11
It's making a really good run up at Ridge right now.
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And like I said, we're going to hold this road.
03:17
At the guns to the road, we'll have one structure we'll have set protection up on, and it'll be a small truck only.
03:24
Okay, I copy.
03:25
Do you have enough water to start pre-treating anything, or y'all pretty limited?
03:31
Just a moment. We have one brush truck, brush not teams in Route 2 as well as engine 82.
03:36
So we should be good for a moment.
03:39
I told G14, I'm not confident on this road holding with the wind,
03:43
but if we can catch the spot fires, we may...
03:49
I've got two crewmen coming up there too.
03:53
Just put them where you need them until I can get up there.
03:56
I'm right behind this course making a run, so I'll try to get there as quick as it can.
04:05
Also, Lee, I've got a whole slew of fed resources coming.
04:09
I'm not sure what you're sending, but I'm sure it'll be a lot.
04:15
Good document.
04:18
When truck gets to know you, just go on and watch out of you out of you.
04:27
24 for 15 to move on up.
04:29
15 to move on up.
04:35
See what else you need up down there.
04:41
They said if you come in the second entrance to the Patriot apartment from Patton, oh yeah, continue on the way you are, you'll see them momentarily.
04:51
The red light, you can mark us on the scene, please.
04:56
Okay.
05:00
Rush not team, you got to move your truck.
05:05
Angel 143 is on the scene.
05:10
Ten, four.
05:15
Go ahead.
05:19
Was this engine doing good at Ox Creek Crest? Is it that far up yet?
05:25
I think you to bring engine three up to where we're trying to stop this in Ox Creek.
05:30
Just come on up to you, get behind the brush 5th or 5,
05:35
but I also need you to shut the road down on that lower side with that truck.
05:40
Okay.
05:43
24, I do have one Weaverville unit coming to you, emergency.
05:46
Highway Patrol had no one as well.
05:48
I'm working on also trying to get you a wheel.
05:51
Copy that, if you have that wheelwheel unit shut it down around the sharp curve over about 5'10.
05:59
10.
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104.
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Press 16 to G14.
06:10
We're up here with Brush 8 as well.
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And I'm gonna send you up this dry boy.
06:24
Alright, you have to put brush 19 on it.
06:28
Copy that, brush not take you go with this dry.
06:33
Take off the first 19 copy, we're out of here.
06:40
Bergen, if you're with a ranger, let them know that that's going to move over to federal land once it crosses Ox Creek, you'll be the Parkway.
06:52
Rangers, the federal route.
06:56
I'm at Granite Gardens right now, Jess.
07:00
Okay.
07:02
Can you copy that? Major three said he's got the parkway en route.
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Location mentioned:
Blue Ridge Pkwy & Ox Crk Rd, North Carolina 28805
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