Wildfire spreads in wooded area near thrift drive, Hickory NC
WildfireFire units responded to a wildfire in a heavily wooded area west of Thrift Drive near Bucking Bridge Road in Hickory, North Carolina. Flames were spreading among the trees, and crews had to cut through locked gates to access the fire. The fire was about three-quarters of a mile off the road, and flames were intensifying into the trees. The cause of the fire was undetermined.
Audio|Source: Hickory City Public Safety
03:40
Transcript:
00:00
I've got a page about the smoke report.
00:03
Just wanting to see what you got going on out there.
00:08
F1, we're trying to get to it.
00:10
It's probably a half a mile off the road.
00:14
We're going to have to make entry with bolt cutters.
00:19
But we're going to need your assistance here.
00:22
It's a heavy wooded area.
00:28
Do you think it's actually a rush fire or somebody just burning?
00:37
That I'm undetermined.
00:40
We had a fire here about a week together.
00:43
Same area.
00:44
It's going to be west of Thrift Drive.
01:00
We have located in fire.
01:03
On the log, standard verse,
01:07
but we're about three-quarters mile off of Bucking Bridge Road in a heavy wooded area.
01:18
From Monday Road, going towards Newton.
01:20
It's a white construction truck on a black utility trailer authority sell 1757.
01:29
Walmart.
01:35
Charles 85, can you know, which scores 100?
01:38
(number withheld).
01:41
85, I believe it's going to be (name withheld).
01:44
It's been in Britain.
01:49
Ten-four, you need me, code three.
01:54
So you're still going to code two.
02:14
over the property to its right towards the bridge from what was that last time.
02:25
Okay, copy that.
02:27
We'll be en route here shortly.
02:34
Fire, like they're pushing off.
02:37
I do not know if they started it, but nobody's with it.
02:47
You say the Dozer is in the middle of the fire or there's just one there near it?
02:55
Just outside of the fire, a building about fifty-two farm.
03:02
And we're also behind a house.
03:05
It's going to be the last house for the wood starts on the last black road.
03:12
We're probably about a hundred yards maybe for me.
03:19
Okay,
03:21
yeah, if it doesn't have any line around it, then yeah, it's an escape fire, I'd say, but,
03:28
yeah, it's kind of odd, but be heading that way.
03:36
Copy. Flames are getting higher into secret trees now.
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Location mentioned:
Buckingham Dr, Hickory, NC 28602
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