Wildfire threatens hikers at Cowles Mountain


A wildfire is spreading near Cowles Mountain, trapping many hikers. They are urgently calling for help as firefighters work to control the blaze.
Audio|Source: W6ZN 145.2800 MHz Palomar Mt. Repeater
05:26
Transcript:
Yes, there's dozens and dozens of people up on Cow's Mountain, and they're calling 911[1] because the fires go to catch up with them. They have to send rescue vehicles up there to rescue the people on Cow's Mountain because they're getting overtaken by the fire. (name withheld), what are you talking about? There's a fire by Cowes Mountain up there by the college, listening to the scanner. And they're getting... You're getting dozens and dozens of 911 calls because the fires are chasing down the people hiking on cows mountains and they can't escape the fire. I don't see, I mean, I don't see it anywhere. Where are you, what scanner are you listening to? I'm listening to... Next Gen Fire Central Zone, Heartland Fire. It's a digital. And there's a up on the, up here at the, what's that, the Grossmont College, there's a fire, and they send in a couple of fire engines. And after a few minutes, they called insane the fires. They can't keep up with fire running up the hill. And now they're getting a bunch of one-nine-one. One calls people hikers. I guess there's a couple hundred people out here hiking and they need to be rescued. Some of them, I guess, made. But I guess that's a real popular hiking place on Cow's Mountain and the fires is chasing the people down. fire's up by the houses up there by Cow's Mountain and they need to sit in more. I guess they're going to be getting in the bombers to help out. Okay, N6YS. Thanks. Yeah, I'm trying to find it. I don't see anything on PulsePoint and I don't see anything on watch duty and I'm going to see if I can try to find the Heartland fire on the scanner app. What's wrong with Pulse Point and watch duty? But I think of the running on vacation or something. Yeah, because there was a fire. They're sending some fire engines off of Lions Valley Road. I didn't hear anything about that, so I don't know what's happening with that one either. Yeah, I also don't see, um, on like flight aware. I don't see any of the firefighting stuff in that area at all. He just called in like a minute ago about getting me the air attack in there. I guess you're calling them in right now.
Police codes explained
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911: Emergency Call
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Location mentioned:
Near Grossmont College Dr, El Cajon, CA 92020
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