Ashley Avenue flooded; road closed and barricaded


A radio report describes flooding on Ashley Avenue causing road closures and barricades. Responders discuss redirecting traffic, moving vehicles, and shutting down the area as waves crash near local businesses.
Audio|Source: Charleston County Police, Fire, EMS/Rescue, Marine SAR
02:36
Transcript:
I gotta figure out where the hell we're gonna send them dude because we can't see down, down roadway southbound. Ashley Ave is all flooded out also. 1931 hopping off a remote dunes for a couple minutes. Medic 5883 Calfa Tree Lane, Backpane, Incident Channel EMF helps. Mediq 5883-83 Coffee Lane, Cross Streets, Yellow Dog Road and Dead End, back pain, incident channel EMF helps 1033. Medic 7 relocate to EMS Natick 14. MediC 7 relocate to EMS Natick 14. Mediq 10 relocate to St. Andrew's headquarters and EMS Mediq 3. Mediq 10 relocate to St. Andrew's headquarters and EMS Natick 3. Yeah, dude, this needs to get shut down and click over here. We're almost at the two foot mark, and the waves are... smashing up against these businesses. Yeah, I'm working on it, man. I'm trying to figure out where we're going to pull all these cars, because we can't just shut it off and then have nowhere for them to go. We're going to probably send them down in Gatson. That fair, you want me to send them right on SNF? Yeah, that, or, you know, they could just make the U-Turring and go back, go back towards King. All right, I'm shutting it down, I'm shutting it down now. Sorry, I just shut down at Smith and Calhoun. I can put barricades here, actually, if you want. Uh, yeah, I mean, if barricades would work, and then we might need to go ahead and get... No, no, no, no... Dispatch, Advanced 63 Clearing Hospital. Dispatch, copy, 1036. Yeah, I'm going to set the barricades out here.
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Location mentioned:
Ashley Ave, Charleston, SC
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