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Wildfire spreads over several acres near Cavalier Drive, Galax VA

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Galax, VA 24333

Firefighters responded to a fast-moving wildfire spreading over several acres of steep land near Cavalier Drive in Galax. Multiple teams coordinated to supply water and position crews on different flanks to contain the fire.

Audio|Source: Carroll County Public Safety and Galax City Fire / EMS
03:36
Transcript:
00:00
The Coma Situation Report at this time.
00:03
Fast-moving fire,
00:04
up steep terrain,
00:06
three or four acres.
00:09
Go ahead and get me Galax, manpower, tanker.
00:14
We'll get for sure.
00:20
Station 1 command.
00:22
What do you need from here?
00:28
The manpower and tanker.
00:32
Got him.
00:39
Command, station one.
00:55
You have a copy on Channel 2.
01:02
Power 3, correct?
01:09
You have a power 3, correct?
01:15
Right, right in line, right.
01:18
Back off.
01:24
One in route.
01:28
Tanker one in route.
01:30
The tanker one in route.
01:31
The tanker one commandable.
01:39
Gois.
01:41
I want you to stage on Cavalier Drive at the entrance where the medic truck is and just go and get the water point ready and I'll send the brush trucks out to you.
01:52
Copy. Okay.
01:59
Thomas Law and Fork on our channel.
02:06
Two Command, go ahead.
02:07
Two Command, go ahead.
02:10
402, when you arrive, I want you to take Brush 4 and your personnel to the left flank.
02:19
104, I'm about two minutes out.
02:23
Do you have Tanker 1 on the road?
02:26
Can't 4.
02:28
Okay, I want Tanker 1 to stage with Hillsville Tanker 1 for water supply.
02:38
Tanker 1, command, I'm direct.
02:47
Tanker 1, command.
02:51
Command. I'm direct.
02:59
Okay, thank you.
03:03
I'll be at the high school for the football game, but I'm still available for calls.
03:19
Command.
03:21
Okay, we're just about at the top that I have this fire.
03:25
If you get resources,
03:27
send some saw people up this same.
03:30
Right flank and we went up, please.
03:35
Command's okay.

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