Explosion heard and smoke seen near Mt Baldy Road home, Josephine County OR
Fire & ArsonSeveral callers reported hearing an explosion and seeing smoke behind a residence near Mt Baldy Road. Fire units responded but found no flames, only lingering smoke. The cause is under investigation and not confirmed as fire or arson.
Audio|Source: Josephine County Fire Agencies
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Transcript:
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7515.15. Explosion is heard in the area to 7.7.
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Overhighway.
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7501-5 explosion heard in the area 077 roguerber highway
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sorry to joy it's available
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dispatch 7553 responding to roguerover highway from Parkdale fire copy 53 response
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7501 responding.
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7501, I may have doubled with you to confirm you're in route.
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Affirmative 01 is in route.
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Copy 75101 is in route.
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75-01.
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Go ahead, 401.
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We've had multiple calls on this.
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I have a complaint on the line stating that he believes it's going to be the first house on Mount Baldi, it's a yellow house,
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and he saw a white F-250 leave at a high-rated seat.
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I want to copy.
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53 copies from Hamilton license.
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caller's stating that he's seeing possible smoke from behind the resident, stated it sounded like a stick of dynamite.
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Dispatcher 53 is still confirming no evidence of fire yet.
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That's negative. He's not seeing any flames at all, just a small amount of smoke that was drifting from behind the house.
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753 is in the area attempting to locate.
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Copy-53 is in the area, center-locate.
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This is that you, Creek Command.
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Thank you, Creek Command.
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We'll be committed for a while longer with overhaul.
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Copy committed to overhaul. This match 7501 is in the area attempting to locate.
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Copy in the area to come to locate.
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7501 from 53, your location.
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53, we're on near Mt Baldy Road. We just talked with one of the residents at (number withheld),
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near Mt Baldy Road said there's this car backfiring behind the residents.
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Copy, I'm out on Rugger, Iowa.
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A dozen people that all were telling me it was near the river, so just go ahead and continue to search the area, but we might go with that as the outcome.
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I want copies. We'll continue to investigate.
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O1, also take a loop up onto Fruitdale and go down that direction. We had a fire up by the canal a couple days ago.
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I won, copy.
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Measure from 7553.
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Location mentioned:
Mt Baldy Rd, Fruitdale, OR 97527
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