Wildfire burns about two acres near Liberty St, Perryopolis PA
WildfireEmergency responders are fighting an active wildfire near Liberty Street and St. Aloysius Cemetery in Fayette County. The fire covers about two acres in a remote area accessed by gravel and dirt roads. Units are coordinating vehicle access, requesting ATVs and additional water, and staging at multiple points to contain the fire.
Audio|Source: Fayette County Public Safety Dispatch
06:56
Transcript:
00:00
Mike, I got somebody here on a side by side to open the gate for me.
00:05
12 base, Chief.
00:12
Good, babe.
00:14
Do you have anything else up there like the tanker or anything?
00:19
No,
00:20
we came in finding, yeah.
00:21
We can't even find it yet. We can't figure out where it is, so just stay there.
00:24
Go on. Drop it.
00:31
Morning for Gilles from 12 and join.
00:39
Twelve and a month, go ahead.
00:43
Where did you access that gate?
00:49
Uh,
00:52
come right there at the intersection, the warway intersection,
00:57
make the left up over the hill.
00:59
You'll come up to a gate to get it's open, road's a little rough, it's a gravel road.
01:05
I'm at a side by side now heading up to the top, see if I can find it.
01:11
Okay, you want to stage down here until you get up there and before we come up there?
01:19
Probably about 1,000 yards up in, there's an opening.
01:25
You could probably park some of the smaller trucks.
01:29
You ain't going to get no big trucks up the road.
01:33
Angel 1 just stage right where you're at until he finds something up in there.
01:37
Don't commit to that road.
01:39
And so he finds something.
01:40
Ten, four.
01:42
This is probably...
01:48
87 Liberty Street
01:54
Hey Mitch
01:57
Yes
02:00
I'm right here at the St.
02:05
Aloysia Cemetery on Churchill and it's directly across from me on the top of that knuckle.
02:14
Okay, you can see pretty good right here.
02:16
We're on High Street.
02:17
We're staging here at the bottom on High Street where Mark went up then on.
02:23
Yeah, it's definitely on that hill right above you.
02:27
So...
02:30
Alright, we'll wait, and as soon as we hear from Mark, we'll figure out what we're going to do then.
02:36
Yeah, okay, I'll meet you over there, but give me a couple minutes.
02:42
Probably.
02:43
Yeah, it's going to be in between where you're at, Mitch, and probably Kelly Lane.
02:47
I'll talk about Hillside.
02:52
Can you get back in Kelly Lane in good ways, or is there left off anyway?
02:58
Those two things guard, Dave, those legs, that's about the only way you're getting into that by the looks of it.
03:11
Yeah, I don't think there's a, I don't think there's a road to get into that, Mitch, seriously.
03:15
We might be able to get the side-by-side up in there.
03:22
Goal look up, alright.
03:25
Don't be good at the cat.
03:27
Uh, I'll see you from underline.
03:29
Look up.
03:31
Good, Joe.
03:35
Markford dealer called Joe McGillowell on the phone, said he needs UTVs up there.
03:39
I don't know if he's not getting radio reception.
03:41
That's what he just said.
03:46
Yeah, I copy.
03:48
We're coming onto the fire now.
03:51
Uh,
03:53
let me give you a size up here once I get here, good.
04:00
Okay.
04:06
12, I got a UTV coming out to where my trucks parked at.
04:11
Right now I'm looking at probably maybe two acres maybe.
04:20
I mean I'm not, I'm just giving you a quick size up here.
04:28
Copy that.
04:31
Can we get our, is this, did you go on a dirt road the whole way? Is it a gravel road or are we just going to have to get our side by side up in there?
04:40
It's going to be like a gravel and dirt road.
04:45
Like I said, I got that guy coming out to get you.
04:54
Coffee.
04:57
We're going to go up this gravel road to that opening and we'll fill some engine tanks, grab some rakes and go back and see what we can do.
05:06
Okay, let me know what that road is like if I can get up in there or not.
05:09
Okay,
05:14
definitely the beginning is good.
05:15
You can definitely get up in here as far as we are so far.
05:21
Well, Chief,
05:23
we're going to need some ATVs up here.
05:25
We're going to need quite a few of them.
05:27
We're going to need some water.
05:28
We've got some handwork to do.
05:32
Okay.
05:38
12,
05:41
Chief, say I'm at a clock.
05:45
Go ahead, MediClau.
05:47
Where do you want us for a staging point?
05:59
Come up Feeton Hill and you can stay off to the left right here where we're going in the gravel road.
06:08
Straight in the dip there, you're over the hill.
06:10
Take that road to the left and park right there.
06:13
We're going up in a gravel road right there.
06:17
Preach.
06:23
12 base toll-sheet
06:30
State County can't put all four units within the area here
06:38
12001 could you repeat you are unreadable
06:44
you can get in put 12 units in the area we got one of the fire wardens back in the woods we're gonna shuttle some people back but side by side
06:52
Are you an updated address for a general area?
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Location mentioned:
Liberty St, Perryopolis, PA 15473
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