Brush fire with downed power lines near Girard Manor Rd, Schuylkill County PA
WildfireA brush fire occurred near Girard Manor Road, Pennsylvania, involving downed live power lines. Fire units estimated the fire size between three-quarters to two acres, with wind pushing flames uphill. Multiple units coordinated response efforts, including requests for portable pumps and forestry assistance. Safety concerns included live wires and dry, chimney-like tree conditions. Efforts focused on controlling the fire near roads and staging suppression resources nearby.
Audio|Source: Schuylkill County Fire
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Transcript:
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Going into the bush, there is a possibility that there is still live wires down.
00:11
Pretty that Deputy Nine.
00:16
Go ahead, Joe.
00:21
Tom, we're up standing is where that live wires down at.
00:24
I'm gonna get on the other side of pole and walk around and go to the top.
00:30
Alright, how are on now?
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machine that's operating number eight Girrard Manor Road on the brush fire be aware for wires down in the area again be aware for wires down in the burn area at fifteen fifty
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The answer.
01:00
Joe, you need our UTV or tanker or should I just come right to the scene? I'm in Brandonville now.
01:09
I walked about halfway up.
01:11
I'd estimated about three-quarters of an acre.
01:15
I'd
01:18
maybe a UTV and some manpowering.
01:24
Johnny, Chief Line.
01:27
Chiefs 9.
01:33
And just go at 64 and 19 for brush units.
01:42
Your UTV, 64 and 19 for brush units.
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Your UTV, 64 and 19 for brush at 1570.
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Chief Vines 30.
01:58
Go ahead.
02:00
Okay,
02:03
see, I'm gonna say probably about two acres right now.
02:08
Wind's pushing it up the mountain, though.
02:10
I didn't make the head yet.
02:15
Yeah, you have a pretty good header from the valley here.
02:24
My tankers should be unseen in a few minutes.
02:29
They're going to stage out with EMS, they're not going to make it all the way back.
02:33
30-1-30.
02:37
Go ahead, Dwayne.
02:40
What's your location? We found in a live wire.
02:46
I'm probably an acre of a mile from that.
02:48
I'm looking for the head.
02:50
There's actually a road up here on the right flank.
02:55
You guys might be able to back into and let that bear burn at a road.
03:00
You're only about 50 foot from the road, 50 yards from the road anyways.
03:05
Copy, I see that road, the only problem is to the right of that road is right where the pole line is and the wires down.
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No,
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there's another one above it.
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Copy, we're going to try to work on this right plank right now.
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Chief Nine County.
03:27
Chief Nine. Chief Nine.
03:33
You put an additional page out for Forestry to respond.
03:38
Pardon, that's a bizarre shift checking with.
03:44
Hey,
03:47
I don't have my phone, I was gonna call Jake.
03:50
I didn't think about getting planes around on top of this year where the head is.
03:53
It's pushing probably 20 foot a minute,
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pushing up the hill about 20 foot a minute.
04:04
Okay, I just put a request in for them to respond.
04:07
I'm just about at my station to get the UTV and I'll be down at about 10 or so.
04:14
Okay, I don't know if you heard.
04:16
How do you feel about letting that bottom burn to the road and trying to get my brush truck up closer to the flank or the head,
04:22
maybe cut it off?
04:26
Yeah, that sounds fine with me.
04:31
30-130.
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Go ahead, Duane.
04:37
Hey, can we regroup whenever you get a chance to get back down here? I kind of don't like that idea when the road.
04:43
There's a lot of dry stuff in here.
04:44
We have a lot of trees starting the chimney already.
04:51
Chief Nine.
04:52
Chief Nine.
04:57
Chief Nine.
05:01
We got a point about corner of a mile.
05:07
There.
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Do not, I'm only getting every other word.
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I'm only getting every other word.
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970.
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970.
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On scene.
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970 on scene, 15, 21.
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Chief 9, Deputy 9.
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Good.
05:38
We have a pond, a little waste down from the fire.
05:43
We're going to need two portable pumps that we can fill up there.
05:46
It's going to be a lot easier and simpler than trying to go back out.
05:53
And you have Shendell in Nuremberg...
05:59
3035 County.
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3035.
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Unseen.
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3335, 1522.
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20, deputy nine.
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Deputy nine.
06:21
What are the units are on?
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Now, Chief,
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I actually have nothing still responding.
06:32
I have UTV 9 6440 and 1940 dispatch, but no response other than as of yet.
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Girard Manor Rd, Pennsylvania
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