Vehicle fire blocks ridge street near brookwood, Charlottesville VA
Fire & ArsonA vehicle caught fire near Ridge Street and Brookwood Drive in Charlottesville, causing the street to be blocked. Emergency responders are on scene managing the fire and traffic is being redirected.
Audio|Source: Charlottesville and UVA Transit
02:46
Transcript:
00:00
Yeah, I'm over here on Ridge Street.
00:03
I'm not going to be able to get through.
00:06
Ambulance,
00:07
fire department.
00:08
They ain't got it all locked up over here.
00:16
What is that?
00:17
Right here on Ridge, on the back side of Ridge, going towards Brookwood.
00:24
It looks like I'm going to be here for a minute, so I think I'm going to have to use to turn around and
00:31
I might have to miss something, Phil, because there ain't no way in the world.
00:34
They got the whole street block off.
00:37
23 to base.
00:38
I'm going to leave the station out here that way.
00:41
819 on Channel 2.
00:48
For the bus is coming towards you,
00:52
are they going to be able to get through?
00:56
No, sir.
00:58
I mean, you can't come from Brookwood or you can't come from where I'm at right on the end of the bridge.
01:04
They got the whole thing blocked off.
01:10
819 to May.
01:16
I ran it to Buffalo, I'm going to slip into Penn Hall.
01:19
Don't leave me.
01:30
19, I'm just telling you, got a car fire up on Ridge Street at Wind Supply, Nolan.
01:36
I'd just letting you know that there's an active fire there in that lot.
01:40
You're going to have fire departments up there on that side of Ridge Street, away from the one at Brookwood.
01:47
214.
01:52
I was trying to get a hold of you ahead of time, but try to go as far down as ridge as you can.
01:59
If you can make it down one of the side streets, the first street, we'll go that route.
02:07
212, same thing.
02:10
If you can't get yourself turn around, like Jonathan's on his way to check you all out as well.
02:16
So we'll go from there.
02:18
All right, Phil.
02:20
I just talked to one in the fire department people.
02:23
He said we're going to be here for a few minutes.
02:25
They moved one, so I don't know exactly how far down the thing is, but they moved the truck.
02:32
So,
02:33
we shall see.
02:35
All right, once we get you all cleared out of there.
02:38
We'll just bypass that section for a minute.
02:41
All right, tenfold.
02:42
That's probably going to affect Monticello Avenue and Ridge Street there.
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Location mentioned:
Ridge St & Brookwood Dr, Charlottesville, VA 22902
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