Controlled burn underway near North Avenue, Metropolis IL
Fire & ArsonA controlled burn is taking place near North Avenue. Fire crews are on scene to keep the fire from spreading and to manage it carefully using a turret. The fire is not being fully extinguished but is being monitored to prevent escalation.
Audio|Source: Southern IL and Western KY Public Safety
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Transcript:
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Fire. It's going to be near North Avenue.
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Near North Avenue.
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Four, I can take it the north of the bus.
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You've got a little better direction for me. From where I'm going, that'll be right in the room.
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Hereby, he's got a controlled burn going on.
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It's into our way.
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It's just going to back up or get more out of control.
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We're just going to stop those.
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Probably once we said it's got a common hand for its right at the intersection.
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Three,
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one engine,
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even go ahead and send a tanker on this one, it's probably not going to be it, but one the range and closing one of the door burn.
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For each one that person,
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they're right, we're going to work for years.
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I don't think it's a big hurry, and everybody else, they can provide the safety for now.
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Go ahead. Okay,
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okay, uh,
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when you get a here?
01:56
we ain't going to pull them lines off we'll let's use that front turret and we're not going to put this fire out we're just going to calm it down a little bit maybe went down this tree so yeah we're not going to do much here
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Location mentioned:
Near North Ave, Metropolis, IL 62960
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