Brush fire burns 3-5 acres near CPCC Matthews campus, Matthews NC
Fire & ArsonFire crews responded to an active brush fire burning 3 to 5 acres near Central Piedmont Community College in Matthews, NC. The fire is located behind the college campus and requires coordination through woods and brush trucks. The fire is suspected to be connected to nearby homeless encampments. The fire is burning mostly around the edges with the interior burning itself out. Crews are working to contain hotspots and investigate the cause.
Audio|Source: Charlotte and Mecklenburg County Fire
08:52
Transcript:
00:00
Fire, requesting your brush truck to assist Matthews with an outside fire near CPCC Lane, cross streets with Ed and Campus Ridge.
00:09
Use MECOPS 6 for traffic, MECOPS 6, 1939.
00:17
Matthews, P.C.C.9, I'm seeing this PD in the back or the front.
00:22
Staying by, they didn't advise.
00:28
I think pomp and rolls if you need to move the brush truck to get the better area, it's pants.
00:38
The squad C-29, they're going to be in the back of the building.
00:43
That will.
00:49
Central to the Ptallion 7 for Matthews Command.
00:56
Go ahead, Cines 7.
01:00
Hey, Trina, I just want to let you know, we're in a parking lot down here besides CPCCC.
01:06
You'll have to go through a gate that we've had unlocked by security.
01:11
You may be able to see it on first due.
01:13
That might be your best way to locate where we are.
01:21
I call me, thank you.
01:24
Now, the ladder one.
01:27
Ladder 1, go ahead.
01:32
Ladder 1, go ahead.
01:36
Ladder 1 is back in-rout to the station, or in-rout to the station, ticket for brush truck.
01:40
For Matthew's call.
01:43
Copy, the Ladder 1 in route to the rush truck.
01:51
Commandant of Battalion 7.
01:52
Also, as your brush truck gets closer, I'll have our brush truck lead them in because they're going to have to come in through the woods.
02:00
This good ways back down in here.
02:02
He'll give them the best direction.
02:07
Botanyan 7 copy.
02:09
First 20, did you copy that?
02:13
Engine 15E channel D delta for a car accident at the plaza in Lakedale.
02:18
End of 15E channel D delta for a car accident involving a motorcycle at the plaza in Lakedale.
02:30
I'm going to put you up with our brush truck.
02:33
He can direct you into where we need you because you're going to have to come back into the woods.
02:39
I'll let him give you the best direction.
02:44
Tim Borr, we're next to engine 92.
02:47
Do we need to go down this gravel driveway or are we going down to CPCC lane?
02:57
Rush 126 to Stallings.
02:59
If you'll head down like Graver Road near Engine 92, you'll follow it all the way down and at the end of the curve.
03:05
To the left you'll see a dirt road.
03:07
If you'll take that back in here and that'll get you down the maintenance trail for the power lines, and that's where the left side of the head of this fire is.
03:15
And that's where you'll find us at.
03:18
Okay, we're headed down now.
03:21
We're headed down now.
03:22
It's in for.
03:25
Amanda Central, go ahead and start me, FMO[1].
03:31
Mr. Reelmelt, use MechOXX for traffic, MechOXX.
03:37
Correct. Copy that.
03:42
Go ahead and send me an investigator from the fire marshal office.
03:47
Copy. Copy.
03:51
Or at least leave him on his channel with us before he responds down here.
03:55
I can kind of feeling what's going on.
03:58
Copy that.
04:02
Brush 126 to engine 3.
04:07
Go ahead. I'm not going to the brush trucks.
04:11
Do you want us to go ahead and move his brush truck up?
04:17
Backway, Nid 23 Channel G-G golf for a medic routine pregnancy, (number withheld) for a recway.
04:24
Cross speeds are Whitechert Road and Pennington Road.
04:31
Good.
04:33
Do you all have any more rakes on your truck or you use them all?
04:38
It's 12b channel C Charlie for a vehicle fire at Westwoodlawn and 77.
04:42
It is 12b channel C.
04:44
Charlie for a vehicle fire at West Woodlawn in 77.
04:51
I've got one coming on the brush truck to you that's on the way to get the brush truck.
04:55
Do you need anything else as far as manpower or anything like that?
05:02
Aaron, honestly, if you could spare an engine company, we certainly could use one.
05:06
This is going to end up being probably three to five acres.
05:10
It's only burning around the edges, but it's very wide.
05:13
The middle is burn itself out, but we do have a very wide circle we need to continue there.
05:21
Russ 126 engine 22.
05:26
I'm sorry, can you repeat that?
05:29
Rush 126 to engine 22.
05:33
Go ahead, for 22.
05:35
We do have some extra tools here, medium.
05:39
Copy, thanks.
05:40
We'll be down on that.
05:46
Central to command.
05:47
The command.
05:52
Go ahead, Central. Go ahead, Central.
05:55
1104 is the notified coming up on the channel soon.
05:59
Yeah, Paul, thank you.
06:06
Rush 1.6, a sounding fresh truck.
06:12
Patient.
06:18
Hey, when you get here past our brush truck, we're going to have you back into the wood line a little bit to the head of this fire, so we can get some more line in here and access it a little better.
06:33
12 for command.
06:39
Copy.
06:46
Engine 12 to Battalion 1.
06:50
Go ahead, 12.
06:52
Hey, Chief, we're going to call where you're at the north flank.
06:55
We've cut it off at the north and the west, the one closest to 485.
07:01
We just got some hotspots.
07:03
We're making a really good headway with hand tools.
07:05
We're just going to have a bunch of hotspots to extinguish.
07:10
And the latter one, central.
07:15
10412 looks like most of it's going to be up here on the power line side towards the south.
07:22
Minhill, ladder one, go ahead.
07:28
Take ladder one out of route and put manual brush fix around, please.
07:33
Copy brush fixes and round.
07:37
Ladder 16 each channel, I and Defra lock-in at 721 Governor Morrison Street.
07:43
Ladder 16 East Channel, I and India for lock-in, 721 Governor Morrison Street.
07:48
Cross streets are Lloyd, Church, Red, and Jaron Township Lane.
07:55
11.4. Hey,
07:58
Chief, you got your cell phone on, on you.
08:03
Unfortunately, I do not.
08:05
I left it back in the car, which is a long ways away.
08:14
Not a problem, I was just trying to keep the channel free, what you got you.
08:20
We're back here between the power lines and CPCC and we've got somewhere between maybe three and five acres.
08:28
On the inside of it, burning self out.
08:31
We've just got a big circle we're trying to continue with.
08:34
But it is a pretty large area.
08:36
I didn't know if you just needed the information or if you wanted to come out.
08:43
It's your call.
08:44
I mean, if you guys got it contained, do you got an origin of cause on it? Or is it, I know we've had homeless issues back there.
08:50
It's kind of looking on what it is.
Police codes explained
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FMO: Fire Marshal's Office
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Near Cpcc Ln, Matthews, NC 28105
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