Fire crews respond to brush fire near Fire Tower Road, Huntingdon County PA
Fire & ArsonFirefighters are responding to a brush fire near Fire Tower Road and the stone quarry in Smithfield Township. Equipment is being used to open roads for fire trucks and water supply efforts are underway.
Audio|Source: Huntingdon County Fire and EMS
03:32
Transcript:
00:00
Yeah, we're going to need some water back here if you can get back to us, which it's all dirt road, but you should be able to get back to us if you take it easy.
00:09
At the fire tower road, where the stone quarry's at just come straight back in towards us.
00:18
Receive.
00:24
You're sending my captain out and he's going to bring him back in.
00:32
Anchorage 12, receive.
00:35
He'll be in a white Dodge truck.
00:42
Copy that. 21 U2B21. We're coming past your station. What's our orders?
00:50
Same orders, uh, come up to the fire tower road and come straight off the mountain towards us.
00:57
I mean then.
01:04
Good for brush 21. Do you want us to drop the UTV somewhere and come in with the brush?
01:16
That's your discretion.
01:21
Crush 12, Command 17.
01:25
Crush 12.
01:27
We're here at the Quarry at the office, where do we need to go from there?
01:32
There's a guy coming out, our captain's coming out to bring you out back.
01:39
Hit a white Dodge truck.
01:44
Copy, so you just want to stage here at the office.
01:47
Affirm.
01:50
Deputy,
01:52
how about,
01:53
um, what does that look like behind you to bring the brush trucks in around into there?
02:02
Yeah, they might be able to get them in closer up this way.
02:07
Um, this guy down here in a dozer, he can come up and open the road up. That's how to work.
02:15
Stand by Brush 21 from Command 17.
02:23
Go ahead.
02:25
What's your manpower?
02:28
We have two.
02:35
Honeyton from Command 17.
02:42
Command 17.
02:46
Can you get us another engine crew started from Blue to Wade?
02:54
Received.
02:55
Also,
02:56
Olten tanker 57 was a failure.
02:59
You have tanker 12.
03:01
You wish an additional tanker from somewhere?
03:09
Uh,
03:11
yeah, go, uh, go next to you.
03:17
So you need an engine anti-tanker to your scene, correct?
03:22
That's correct.
03:25
Deputy,
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from safety,
03:28
if we go with engine tanker 35, then we'll have a crew plus their water.
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Location mentioned:
T505, Smithfield Township, PA 16652
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